Cpt.Nemo
Gravity Guru
I'm probably the last person to add to this, but when I did my 24" tiger I just used tons of tiny dagger strokes. It was large enough for tiny daggers. Doing an 8" dog now and it's too small for daggers so I'm scratching. New to scratching so I suck at it, but for my large tiger I got small enough detail with daggers. For the nose I used figure 8 in the direction of the fur and it looked pretty good. I doubt that help you any, but that's just what I found works best for me