Not peeking -- he arrived today. Lo, there was much sniffling, with poor Biscuit licking my face as I sat on the floor and blubbered over the box. Thank you so much, lady.
And yes, that's a little browner/lighter than he is in real life, but I think that works for a mask as opposed to a flat painting -- more solid blacks and you wouldn't really get the effect of the lighter striping on the guard hairs, or the lighter undercoat shading the hairs -- and he does have a lot of buff in the silver of that undercoat fluff. And while it's hard to get across "elkie" without the chunky body and comical curly tail, really, you've got the shortness/broadness of the skull and the goggle markings, and the broad-set, smaller prick ears, and anyone paying close enough attention to the details would know those don't really fit a GSD.
He's beautiful, and already up on the wall. Pics later, I promise.
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Date: 2007-06-21 12:02 am (UTC)And yes, that's a little browner/lighter than he is in real life, but I think that works for a mask as opposed to a flat painting -- more solid blacks and you wouldn't really get the effect of the lighter striping on the guard hairs, or the lighter undercoat shading the hairs -- and he does have a lot of buff in the silver of that undercoat fluff. And while it's hard to get across "elkie" without the chunky body and comical curly tail, really, you've got the shortness/broadness of the skull and the goggle markings, and the broad-set, smaller prick ears, and anyone paying close enough attention to the details would know those don't really fit a GSD.
He's beautiful, and already up on the wall. Pics later, I promise.
Thank you.