Concept art of some of the ear markings! It includes a few eye and nose colors as well. I’m shooting for a round number of 20 marking colors right now, and am working on fleshing out the genetics and code at the moment. I want to keep the genetics as realistic as possible while allowing for variety and uniqueness in an art based game. I did indeed add blind eyes, anticipating injuries and illness being added later on. Below are some summaries of a general framework for how I have divided the colors/markings and I’d love to hear feedback/opinions!
Marking variations are divided into Pools. These pools: Scarce, Minimum, Light, Medium,and Heavy have their own variety of markings. When determining the amount of expression of a certain phenotype, the chosen pools are unique to each dog. For example, Dog A with heavy spotting may only have one marking from the heavy pool, while Dog B with heavy spotting has markings from the scarce and heavy pool, Dog C might have a marking from each pool; for an extremely heavy expression of spotting, and Dog D may have multiple markings from the heavy pool but another marking might hide it so it looks like nothing from the heavy pool (this can be either a marking from a lesser pool or the markings being partially/completely hidden).
The head, ears, and body are broken up so each have their own pool for more genetic diversity.
Read the full thing at my DA, I'm much more active there!
https://www.deviantart.com/elenoh/art/Markings-Concept-Art-1021395392
