Piebald

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

The dominant form (PlbPlb) has its range extended to 90% of the body.

Piebald

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Piebald

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Piebald

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Edge allowances

Hard

Textured

Symmetry allowances

Must be asymmetrical

Color Allowances:

Must be white

A Guide to Piebald

White allowed for all bases

White allowed for Jade/azure

How to Piebald

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 Piebald

Step 2

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

Step 2

How to Piebald

Step 3

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

Part 3

How to Piebald

Step 4

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 Piebald

When Piebald is dominant, it can cover far more of the kukuri's body... up to 90% of it! Here are some examples of what that could look like.

Piebald shaping

Piebald 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!

Piebald and other Markings

Piebald can't 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 Piebald 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 Piebald rather than those markings!

What to Avoid

Piebald should look as though its 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!

Piebald asymmetry

Piebald must be asymmetrical. This means the different sides of the kukuri needs to be largely different from each other and the Piebald'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 Piebald layer, and edit it to have more or less coverage for the other side!

Textures

Piebald 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)!

PIEBALD AND HETEROCHROMIA

Piebald 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 white area covers one of the eyes, and not the other. Partial heterochromia is not allowed for a Piebald. Also unlike Heterochromia mutation, Piebald can not make the eyes have different colored scleras.

If a kukuri has both Piebald and heterochromia, one eye may be affected by piebald (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!

PIEBALD AND MOUTHS

Where Piebald overlaps the mouth, it can impact the coloration, creating a two toned look.

The color of the affected area must be either a light red/pink or a color taken from the white slider. No other colors are permitted.
The piebald color in the mouth cannot be darker than the tongue color

The piebald cannot create holes or spots of color on the tongue. Additionally if the tongue is spotted, those spots cannot be shown in the affected area!