Yannow I wonder, sometimes, if staff didn’t like. Accidentally draw themselves into a corner with Tundra.
Like, don’t get me wrong. I adore Tundra, I adore their floof and I adore their lore and I love everything about my scrappy forgetful underdog dragons. This is not a slight against them in the least.
I’m just saying, owning a Tundra is about learning to be forgiving. You have to forgive the way a lot of apparel just straight up doesn’t know how to work around the floof, in male poses its the mane and how capes and shirts and anything with collars that goes around the neck really gets warped and massive, in females, it’s chest and arm floof miraculously poking through the chests and sleeves of every single shirt bar the ugly tunics they released in 2013. Dressing many tundra is a fucking aesthetic nightmare and you just have to learn to work around it, or accept that there are going to be weird little inconsistencies between the base art and the apparel that other dragons don’t have to deal with.
It’s also about learning to accept that a lot of genes just fucking suck. They do. Again, I don’t think staff knows what to DO with all that fur, I don’t think they know how to make all these neat, exotic patterns work on fur or in fur patterns. On every other breed, the fur? The manes? It’s part of the secondary, easy peasy pumpkin squeezie, but on tundras? The fur is all over everything, and half of the wing is secretly the primary and on males, there’s a hidden second slice of secondary in the mane (which is mostly promary) that keeps getting perpetually forgotten, or maybe it’s just ignored because shit. Some of these patterns? Just don’t really work on that sliver. And tertiaries? Well, most of that’s Fine, unless it’s one of the Belly terts- Underbelly, Capsule, Glimmer- where most of the belly is covered by- you guessed it- fur, and therefore Barely Visible.
It’s such a crying shame, and it’s not something that can really be fixed without an entire rehaul of the lines or concept. It’s getting to the point where I will be Genuinely Surprised if we ever see another fluffy dragon, as much as I desperately want one, because I have the strong suspicion that working around the tundra fur is a goddamn nightmare and one they’re not gonna be keen on repeating.
‘Course, this is all Deep Speculation, I have no more insight into staff problems and mindset than anyone else, maybe people Love drawing on tundra but. Dammit there has to be a reason why they’re so critically shafted.
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