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Guide to style: Sparkledog by ~clawfingers:iconclawfingers:

Categories Digital Art > Drawings > Animals

©2009 ~clawfingers
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Part one in a series of "guides" to popular internet art styles

Ahaha no one warned me the previous text was so unsparkle. I'm glad i caught that.
Hopefully this covers it all?I dont know, feel free to make suggestions, I'll probably end up adding some more.

EDIT:
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A PARODY
I am not going out of my way to combine all the cliche's of sparkledog themed art into one dog.
that would give a skewed representation of the genre and that's not what I'm going for at all

and I drew it in my style because I'm not very good with the bezier or oekaki, but I made notes about that stuff in the "not shown" section.

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~SilverPoot Jan 1, 2009, 6:09:34 PM
Ha ha now I see what you mean by the term has become so general. I look at this and almost go "Well that is like trying to pin down what is a dragon and what isn't (they have to have wings and little spades on the end of their tail and scales, etc)"

Regardless, I like the drawings!

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~Oldish-Acoustic Jan 1, 2009, 6:19:57 PM
damn, i think you make sparkledogs look good with your style. I: you covered what i thought of most sparkledogs too. i think you forgot 'usually skinny' though, because i have never, ever seen a fat or somewhat meaty sparkledog.

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~clawfingers Jan 1, 2009, 6:22:33 PM
o yeah, I'll put that in.
I dont think i've seen a fat canine character ever though, o well...
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~vio-the-stormeon Jan 1, 2009, 6:24:05 PM
I think you forgot the fact that.. they usually have clashing, too-bright colors
and rainbows
you forgot rainbows

but yeah, the one here, the colors go together so pretty, I actually quite like it xD

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~clawfingers Jan 1, 2009, 6:24:38 PM
I had a similar thought while making this actually, like they aren't real so what's the use of trying to make a guide? but then, there are plenty of dragon guides in bookstores so I felt like, eh what the heck.
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=Jasumine Jan 1, 2009, 6:28:53 PM
is it bad that i actually liked how this came out? xD well yes the dogs colors do blind me a bit but WELL your anatomy and attention to details does make me smile quite often. C:

i'm probably guilty of a few things considered "sparkle-worthy" lol

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~Fauspoot Jan 1, 2009, 6:30:33 PM
ahaha this is so accurate.

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~Oldish-Acoustic Jan 1, 2009, 6:32:45 PM
fat canine, i has it.
[link]

besides those fatfurs if they count dshgfh

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*VanillaKitsune Jan 1, 2009, 6:38:51 PM
A major thing you should of added for a description was that sparkledogs are specifically breedless. They're all like cookie cut-outs. None of them have a distinctive breed whatsoever because you can never tell what the hell they are, the creator labels them as something ridiculous like dacshund/husky/jack russel terrier/kitsune and it just

looks like a fucked up dog that should be taken to the vet before it falls over and dies from a serious condition.

Also the toe thing is kinda false..if you look at a canine's paw, their front toe claws do come in together.

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~clawfingers Jan 1, 2009, 6:39:57 PM
I dont know about that, i've seen quite a few that were done really well, vanilla kitsune's old character designs come to mind even though she was trying to separate herself from sparkledogs for a while.
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[link] [link] [link] I wouldn't say any of these clashed too badly (I hope the artists dont mind me linking)
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