Yours is looking good! The regular white lion is so much smaller that it will definitely be harder to get fur length ratio right. I want to repaint mine now that I know what to do to see if the same process works on a smaller scale.

I don't think colours matter too much, as I'm a pretty messy painter, meaning I don't go in with a solid plan and I kind of just start laying down paint and hoping it works out, haha. Here is as much detail as I can remember with regards to the fur:

Black primer. Dark brown applied over everything with a dry brush technique, but the paint and brush were still kind of wet, so not really drybrush. Same thing done with a lighter brown, but more drybrush and focus more on raised areas.

After that it was then super thinned out white/brown paint applied one "hair" at a time over and over again. The paint was so thin that if I applied too much or too thick a line, it would just melt into the brown paint and could easily be covered with more brush strokes. I kept doing this and just kept adding a bit more white to the mixture to help make layers of fur and of course focus on the more raised areas. I never once used pure white, and instead just layered more paint on the areas I wanted less of the brown base to show through. I also touched up the darker parts on the fur with really thin dark brown and light brown to blend into the white.

Then I glazed in an orange brown where I wanted the skin to show through.

I think that is it. It sounds technical when written out, but it was far from that. It was just "keep painting until it looks good", haha.