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This is a question for artists/guest artists!
What is, in your opinion, the easiest and hardest pet linearts to work with?

Item artist here, hope its okay ^^

Easiest:
Horses - Plenty of space to work with and the long limbs makes it nice to draw sleeves, I love the leather jackets I drew for them!

Hardest:
Teen lion - Due to the pose there is a lot of overlap in anatomy and it makes drawing form fitting accessories or clothing difficult.

[MinniHowl]

This is to artists/guest artists
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An artist mentioned that they’d designed one stage of some pets a bit “in a hurry”, and I was just wondering how long is that? How long on average does making a design take? Both for each stage and overall? Im aware the answers will probably vary depending on artists, lines, and design, but wondering about a ballpark.

I am curious :p

[axelandria]

This is to artists/guest artists
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An artist mentioned that they’d designed one stage of some pets a bit “in a hurry”, and I was just wondering how long is that? How long on average does making a design take? Both for each stage and overall? Im aware the answers will probably vary depending on artists, lines, and design, but wondering about a ballpark.

I am curious :p

Not an artist or guest artist, but I do want to say that planning for the GH cat staff litter starts around February every year :)

[Saikiyo]

This is to artists/guest artists
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An artist mentioned that they’d designed one stage of some pets a bit “in a hurry”, and I was just wondering how long is that? How long on average does making a design take? Both for each stage and overall? Im aware the answers will probably vary depending on artists, lines, and design, but wondering about a ballpark.

I am curious :p

If I'm rushing I can make a small litter in about 2-5 hours, this includes adults, midstage and newborns. If I'm taking my time, I'll make the adults in 2-5 hours and then come back the next day and rattle off the midstages and newborn(s) in an hour or two. A single outcome can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. This also depends if I have a theme and/or color palette, I'll also sometimes make a "dud" outcome first while trying to figure out style and color which adds a bit of time to the process. Duds are not intentional lol...


Unless it's the western dragon lines, then each outcome takes like an hour or more. It is one of the reasons I don't make dragons very often.

This is a question for artists/guest artists!
What is, in your opinion, the easiest and hardest pet linearts to work with?

Hardest, western dragons due to size, dwarf hamsters also due to size, draft horses are large and a bit awkward, macaws can be hard to get a pattern on the back with open wings and closed wings are very compact so the design has to be compact and make sense with the folded body, I had a rough experience with the one time I did an owl... between the shading detail and the angle of the body I found it really, really hard to put good looking designs on it.

Easiest, foxes since they're a good size and have a straight forward pose, deer have a simple pose a skinny legs that don't need a lot of detail, chameleons as their mostly one undisrupted solid shape, cats generally work well with me as it's easy to flow designs with their body and they're thick enough I can get a bunch of details in on them, horses also have good flow and are large enough to get good details in but their mane is small and can be a challenge to work with.

Every line art has its pros and cons and I find when you play into the line art's strengths it will be a smooth process.

[Doglike]

This is a question for artists/guest artists!
What is, in your opinion, the easiest and hardest pet linearts to work with?

For me, I feel like the horse/draft/pony linearts are the easiest! They're nice and flat and don't challenge the mind as much. Rats are pretty straightforward too.

The trickiest lineart for me is chameleons! The spindly limbs and the stick really test my brain to come up with patterns.

This is to artists/guest artists

An artist mentioned that they’d designed one stage of some pets a bit “in a hurry”, and I was just wondering how long is that? How long on average does making a design take? Both for each stage and overall? Im aware the answers will probably vary depending on artists, lines, and design, but wondering about a ballpark.

This all depends! Sometimes I'll jump into a litter headfirst with no plan, sometimes no color palette in mind. Other times I've been chewing on an idea for days/weeks/months, and it's a lot easier for me to get going litter-wise, as I already have a theme and species planned out in my head.

I'd say an "easy" litter takes around 2 hours for me, and a harder litter/one I have to work the flaws out of more can take me 4-6 hours.

[*Plutonia*]

Questions (meant for everyone really),

Q1: This one is more formal, and I'm sorry if this thread isn't meant for something like this, but just out of pure curiosity -
is the amount of pets per event (talking about Halloween, Easter, Summer) proportional to the amount of tokens a person can obtain via clicking (and hence sometimes the banner limit raising) OR are the players "forced" (take this word lightly, couldn't think of a better word ATM xP) to participate in trading with other players (with maybe pets that aren't swaps of that event). I hope you understand what I mean, if it's something you'd rather skip answering that's totally ok ^^

Q2: If you could eat only ONE food/meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Q2: what's the cutest baby animal? :0

[Aaron✦]

Questions (meant for everyone really),

Q1: This one is more formal, and I'm sorry if this thread isn't meant for something like this, but just out of pure curiosity -
is the amount of pets per event (talking about Halloween, Easter, Summer) proportional to the amount of tokens a person can obtain via clicking (and hence sometimes the banner limit raising) OR are the players "forced" (take this word lightly, couldn't think of a better word ATM xP) to participate in trading with other players (with maybe pets that aren't swaps of that event). I hope you understand what I mean, if it's something you'd rather skip answering that's totally ok ^^

Q2: If you could eat only ONE food/meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Q2: what's the cutest baby animal? :0

Q1: Last Halloween, it took 123 tokens to get one of each pet outcome and item, if you were to get every single pet with no doubles (or swapped with another use). The limit was 300, so if you reach the banner limit, there's more than enough to get every token outcome without trading with other users. Obviously you'll have to swap free outcomes with other players to get a complete collection, but it's complete possible to get enough tokens proportional to the amount of stuff released in an event

Q2: Probably stir fry - this feels like kind of a cheat because there are so many proteins, vegetables, noodle types and different sauces so I could make lots of different meals >:)

Q3: A bit out there, but I really like baby tapir!

[axelandria]

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Q2: If you could eat only ONE food/meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Q2: what's the cutest baby animal? :0

mac and cheese!! no question there

i HAVE to say golden retriever puppies :)

[Fawnie]

Questions (meant for everyone really),

Q2: If you could eat only ONE food/meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Q2: what's the cutest baby animal? :0

1. phở

2. obligatory fawn, but baby hippos are just way too adorable to grow up and be dangerous

[Desmond]

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Q2: If you could eat only ONE food/meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Q2: what's the cutest baby animal? :0

Chicken pot pie. Now, normally I would just say chicken but hear me out: I'm being realistic and smart about it and acknowledging that I need my veggies too.

I could say orcas. I could say kittens. Alas, my honest answer to this is sand plover chicks. Tiny fluffy toasted marshmallow birds with two long stick legs. Impossible to resist.