Mutts
the doggie pic 'n' mix
Art by WolfieArt (Wolfie on PI)
The Mutts
These mutts are a general mix of all sorts of things, so any natural dog colouring/combo is fine :)
Breeding
To breed you need a female, a male and a litter blanket.
Females may breed every three weeks, males can breed all the time.Usually a female will have 1-8 pups.
Only two of the litter may be kept, the rest can be traded,sold for SG or donated back to me.
The Park
Each month you can take each dog to the park once.This is the perfect place to pick up strays,items and other various exciting doggy things. However, sometimes your dog will come back with nothing :/
Examples
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/Mutts/merle.png)
- Unisex pup, blue merle w/ collie
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/Mutts/merlead.png)
- Female adult, blue merle w/ collie
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/Mutts/dog.png)
- Male adult, merle w/ tan
I need an item artist for the blanket and a couple of other things ^^
Cert Help
Here's the simple little thing I made on paint -
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/Mutts/sample.png?t=1269423058)
Now I know it's;
a) Boring
b) Got too much spare white
c) Too big
So, I basically would love some tips/examples, and I'd even hire a certist, because I'm hopeless at making them, I don't have the foggiest how to do it digitally X3
Please LMK what you think of them ^^
~Willow
I think they're cute. Not sure what you mean by too much spare white? And I'm not sure which you think is too big, the dog images or the cert; but I don't think they are too big. The dog images are fine, as for the cert, if anything I'd say the cert is a bit too small. But then, I have bad eyes, so the tinier text is often a bit harder for me to see/read then most.
Well, as it seems, you can't actually see the white background XD
So I guess they look fine :)a larger cert and make larger text ^^
I may make
~Willow
They're very cute, I like :)
I would leave the cert the size it is, increase the text size by one or two points, and just move the doggy up so that it overlaps the cert a bit, without overlapping the text. If you want to save space on the cert, you could take the id line out and just put the number in the top right hand corner. Alternately you could do the same for gender and just use the standard symbols for gender in different colours.
As an example, this is what I would do, except a lot higher quality:
(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1122/certy.png)
Okie doke, thanks to the help I've had, I've come up with this, which I'm a lot more happier with.
I can't overlap them because they have a slightly fuzzy white line that shows.
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/dawg.png)
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/dawgf.png)
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/dawgb.png)
I've also decided that to make them a bit more interesting and less The Kennel-like, they won't be restricted to natural colours, however they will be restricted to natural markings, so no flames/hearts/swirls etc it will be things like merle,ticked,collie, tan and other things :)
~Willow
I like 'em ^^ I'd definitely want some
^^
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/litespi/Doogle.png)
~Willow
Oooh nice ^^
They look nice. :)
A tip for coloring with my templates, when using white go a bit darker to make the shading show. I use a slightly bluish, but it could be more white. Here's dog colored with "dark white" as my mom would say. The tail is colored with the white I use. Body is lighter.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm149/Sleepynugget/dogset3copy-2.png)
Oh and the shading doesn't like "pure color" A bit off makes it show though.
I know, I've already figured that out :D
It's just that female and baby that could have been a bit darker on the white ^^
It doesn't bother me, you can't really tell that it's not white, so it's good :)
~Willow
Alrighty that's good. :D
They're in the general thread :)
~Willow