#spotted tabby

[felinefractious]

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[catfindr]

[aro-luigi]

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[sleepyspots-wc-designs]

“StarClan spoke to me moons ago, before you joined the Clan. […] They said fire alone can save our Clan.” —Spottedleaf, Into the Wild

SPOTTEDLEAF — A smaller, somewhat thickset, somewhat thick-furred dark molly with ginger spotted tortie patches, very low white, and huge amber eyes.

Finally settled on an overall design for Spottedleaf that I!! Actually really like! I am quite content, this time around, with her look.

I might do another pass at her overall proportions some other time, because I feel a little iffy about them? But for now? I’m very pleased with this version — and it only took me two drastically different posted versions and about six different drafts to reach this point!

Also, as a fun, useless fact: I listened to Judas Priest almost exclusively while drawing her lol

Some design notes!:

Extremely rounded, from her build to her fur style to her extremities.

Spot clumps only come in pairs or trios.

Completely ginger tail, sans the white tip.

One white toe on left hind paw, one dark toe on right forepaw.

Leaf-shaped fringe over left eye.

Distinctively big, rounded eyes, to give her both a somewhat youthful and a somewhat uncanny vibe.

Scarring: None! (Though I like to think she has at least one, somewhere, from her short time as a warrior apprentice)

Decoration: Daffodils, symbolizing new beginnings, admiration, truth, vanity, and death.

[clafairybear]

Get you a man who stares into your soul like this 😼

[alollinglaughingcat]

inktober 27

....i mean like, i technically drew some lines

and to clarify, the bases are mine i jsut drew it a long time ago lmao

[warrior-cats-genetics]

hi everyonee back at it again with phenotyping my own ocs! this time i've got a couple parents and their kid, which lets me get into the nitty gritty of how i make my ocs genetically accurate heheh in order these are hazelstar, jinglehop, and bells!

hazelstar is a shorthair cinnamon classic tabby with high white! her being cinnamon is a bit iffy, the stripes are a little dark for cinnamon, but i don't car 💖

jinglehop is a shorthair cinnamon spotted tabby with low white! his stripes are a... bit hard to see, but this was the intent. the spotted tabby gene is a modifier to mackerel, and results in a sort of gradient from full stripes to full spots!

bells is a shorthair fawn/cream classic tabby tortioiseshell with low white! fawn is the dilute of cinnamon, making bells a dilute tortie! i still classify her as shorthair despite looking kind of longhair since that was my intention, i just tend to draw cats pretty fluffy

now... below the cut, i will discuss how i reverse-engineered hazelstar to make her parents as genetically accurate as possible!

first off, all cats are shorthair, so we can ignore that gene, assuming nobody carries longhair.

for color, i was sort of forced into making jingle and bells both cinnamon-- black-base colors are on sort of a dominance scale, which is hard to explain? but in essence, black is dominant to all, chocolate is dominant to cinnamon, and cinnamon is recessive to all. [BB -> bb -> blbl; B is black, b is choco, bl is cinnamon]

so, if either of them were black or chocolate, hazel would be too. full red is out of the question for bells, since that would make hazel a tortie! so, jingle got just regular cinnamon, and bells got to be a tortie to make things a little more visually interesting. being fawn/cream, she could pass either red or cinnamon onto hazelstar, and just happened to pass cinnamon.

the tabby patterns are where it got interesting for me: i didn't want everyone to be classic, but classic is recessive to mackerel, so both parents had to at the least carry classic. my decision was to make one parent [bells] present classic, while the other [jingle] carried it, but i got a teensy bit carried away while drawing jingle, and he ended up spotted, which... makes the genes pretty interesting!

you see, spotted tabby [Sp] is a modifier as stated above, but it only works on mackerel. the classic tabby gene doesn't have the right proteins to present it. this makes the problem of spotted being dominant to non-spotted kind of a non-issue, but means that hazelstar is a spotted tabby under her classic. which i don't mind, that's fun! [jinglehop is SpSp, fully spotted. bells can be anything, but i'm calling her spsp, non-spotted. hazelstar thus ends up as Spsp, spotted and carrying non-spotted!]

white spotting is also pretty curious with these guys. the parents are both low white, but their kit is high white! how is this possible? well, the white gene works in interesting ways; low white is coded as Wsw [white + non-white, i believe], but if you combine two dominant white genes, you get high white [WsWs]! so, jingle and bells simply both passed their Ws genes and had a half-white kitten. [ww is full non-white, if you were wondering]

now, if anyone was interested in the letter vomit that is their resulting genetic strings [unimportant genes excluded] here ya go: hazelstar: XoXoLLblblDdmcmcSpspWsWs jinglehop: XoYLLblblDDMcmcSpSpWsw bells: XOXoLLblblddmcmcspspWsw reminder that these are completely amateur and likely inaccurate ^^ i'm just havin fun

[identifying-cat-colors]

Here is my newest foster. I've never seen a tabby this light before and am curious what the official coloring is called.

Black spotted tabby