How to make wool?

Question

Design

How to make such realistic wool in the illustrations, let's take VK gifts as an example.
It would be great if someone shared what resource)

Answer 1

The most common technique without using 3D using only Photoshop tools
. If you need the simplest and fastest effect, I advise you to look towards Filter Forge, there were several very acceptable plug-ins for it.

Answer 2

That's it .
In general, you can find a lot of things for fur, shader, blender, hair, including demo videos on YouTube .

Answer 3

Are they made in 3D?
I thought there was something like brushes.