Here you go! I hope you don't mind me posting this here Rescue. <3
-Silver would dilute the coat a little more to a dullish brown which I think you got the idea of but I think yours was a little bright. The points like on the legs become a chocolatey colour which I see you noticed! Just above the hooves also has a silvery tint to it. The mane and tail will also be fully silver-white so there wouldn't be a striped mane like other appies.
-I'm not sure if you merged your layers after finishing but in case you didn't, duplicate the layer and colour it an off-white with a little tint of your base colour in it.
-For the varnish effect, I started with erasing some of the white on this new layer around the head, neck, underside and joints. I left a hidden copy of this layer on before adding the spots so you can take a look. After finishing the spots, I set the soft eraser tool to 40-80 opacity, 20 spacing and 200 scatter to add the speckling effect on top of these areas again. There's another layer to show the difference before I added the scattering.
-For the spots, try to make them follow the flow of the coat. Towards the flank/loin area you can see where the spots usually start to point downwards. The legs do get denser on the legs and I think you have that down pretty good! The same for the mottling on the muzzle, I think you could make your white spots a little smaller there, maybe with the scattering, too but you have the idea of it. To do the spots, I used the soft eraser between sizes 3-8 at 25 opacity. I usually clump some spots together and have some more spaced out, I think under the front leg I made mine a bit too clustered.
-Appies generally have stripey hooves which I forgot to add but I'll go back and fix that! You could also look into bronzing, I usually don't do that though and appies don't always have it. It's why you can get some jet black appies and some black appies with no dilutions that are a slightly off colour.
-Silver would dilute the coat a little more to a dullish brown which I think you got the idea of but I think yours was a little bright. The points like on the legs become a chocolatey colour which I see you noticed! Just above the hooves also has a silvery tint to it. The mane and tail will also be fully silver-white so there wouldn't be a striped mane like other appies.
-I'm not sure if you merged your layers after finishing but in case you didn't, duplicate the layer and colour it an off-white with a little tint of your base colour in it.
-For the varnish effect, I started with erasing some of the white on this new layer around the head, neck, underside and joints. I left a hidden copy of this layer on before adding the spots so you can take a look. After finishing the spots, I set the soft eraser tool to 40-80 opacity, 20 spacing and 200 scatter to add the speckling effect on top of these areas again. There's another layer to show the difference before I added the scattering.
-For the spots, try to make them follow the flow of the coat. Towards the flank/loin area you can see where the spots usually start to point downwards. The legs do get denser on the legs and I think you have that down pretty good! The same for the mottling on the muzzle, I think you could make your white spots a little smaller there, maybe with the scattering, too but you have the idea of it. To do the spots, I used the soft eraser between sizes 3-8 at 25 opacity. I usually clump some spots together and have some more spaced out, I think under the front leg I made mine a bit too clustered.
-Appies generally have stripey hooves which I forgot to add but I'll go back and fix that! You could also look into bronzing, I usually don't do that though and appies don't always have it. It's why you can get some jet black appies and some black appies with no dilutions that are a slightly off colour.
