Drawing The Tail
While I had been using the mouse to draw my character (using the pen tool in Photoshop) , I decided that for the tail I would use a graphics tablet to more easily draw the fur. I used the Wacom Intuos Pro. Using a tail style that I liked from the pictures I chose for inspiration, I drew a rough template of that style of tail, ten went over it to add more detail and individual tufts of hair.

Picture I used as inspiration for how I would like my characters tail to look.

Wacom Intuos Pro

Basic outline of character's tail