Inked

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Ink is an asymmetrical marking that turns parts of the coat black. It covers all other markings (except Crested and white markings), can cover 50% of the body and can create a heterochromia effect without the mutation being present!

The dominant form (InkInk) has its range is extended to 90% of the body, and be any allowed color darker than the base coat.

Inked

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Inked

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Inked

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Edge allowances

Hard

Textured

Symmetry allowances

Must be asymmetrical

Color Allowances:

Must be black

A Guide to Ink

Black allowed for all bases

Black allowed for Jade/azure

How to Ink

Step 1

The base design: This example uses an Amber kuku with Sable and Pangare, but your kukuri may look vastly different!

step 1

How to Ink

Step 2

Create a new layer and fill it in with black. Be sure this is its own layer!

Step 2

How to Ink

Step 3

Begin erasing large shapes and patches from the black to reveal the base design below!

Part 3

How to Ink

Step 3

Keep erasing until you reach the allowed coverage! Non-dominant can be covered up to 50%. To get the right shapes you might need to add and erase several times!

Part 4

Dominant Ink

When Ink is dominant, it can cover far more of the kukuri's body... up to 90% of it! Ink can also be any darker, allowed color. This means a Pearl could have a dark red Ink for example!

Here are some examples of what that could look like.

Ink shaping

Ink can be many different shapes and forms. It may have textured or hard edges allowing for a wide range of possibilites! Below are some possible examples you can draw inspiration from!

Ink and other Markings

Ink can not mimic other markings. Mimicing things such as Blanket or Collar will result in a trip to corrections, so be sure to not mimic any of these! The examples to the side are what to avoid.

However this doesn't mean Ink can't appear in those same zones. They can still appear where Underbelly would be, or still wrap around the neck. As long as it still looks like Ink rather than those markings!

What to Avoid

Ink should look as though it's been erased from the body. Any "painted on" or deliberate forms are not allowed! Stringy, swirly, too regular shaped and any mimicing of markings is not permitted. Faces, hearts, or other unnatural shapes like stars will be denied as well! Below are examples of what not to do!

Ink asymmetry

Ink must be asymmetrical. This means the different sides of the kukuri needs to be largely different from each other and the Ink's edges should not match up perfectly if both sides are layered on top of each other!

The easiest way to produce a good asymmetrical look is to copy the original Ink layer, and edit it to have more or less coverage for the other side!

Textures

Ink can have textured and hard edges! It can also have mild fur shaping (row 1). However it can not have soft or blended edges, nor can the fur texturing be too extreme (row 2)!

Ink AND HETEROCHROMIA

Ink can create heterochromic eyes almost the same way as the mutation does, but it is not inheritable to any offspring. This doesn't act like real life piebald or pinto, it does not change the eyes blue. It takes the colors from the parents only, unless the parents are albinos (in which case you can use grandparent's colors).

Heterochromia can only appear when the black area covers one of the eyes, and not the other. Partial heterochromia is not allowed for a Inked. Also unlike Heterochromia mutation, Inked can not make the eyes have different colored scleras.

If a kukuri has both Ink and heterochromia, one eye may be affected by Ink (one color) and the other may be affected by heterochromia (two colors), for 3 total eye colors. There may not be three colors in one or both eyes!