Smoke
SmSm/nSm
Creates a gradiented marking in two or more points in the body. These points are head, hands, legs and tail.
Dominant smoke spreads more into the body.
While smoke in recessive mode does not allow usually any shapes or spreading unevenly, dominant smoke cancels this rule. Marking has to be still completely blended.
Marking border allowances:
Non-dominant smoke allows slight curvature that follows limbs' rounded shape. Above example shows the preferred max curve that non-dom smoke can create.
Common Ranges
Prairie Ranges
On Prairie feathers, smoke shows up normally, like it would in any other limb. If smoke area goes over feathers, it has to appear on them. The filling must be even, unless smoke is dominant.
"While smoke in recessive mode does not allow usually any shapes or spreading unevenly, dominant smoke cancels this rule. Marking has to be still completely blended. "
CORRECT - versus - FAULTY
Aerial Ranges
On Aerial feathers, smoke shows up normally, like it would in any other limb. If smoke area goes over feathers, it has to appear on them. The filling must be even, unless smoke is dominant.
Common Miniature Ranges
Two examples of smoke affecting only two points:
Head and arms, and legs and tail respectively. Smoke CAN affect more or all points if desired, but two points is the minimum amount that should be covered.
UNACCEPTABLE WAYS OF CREATING SMOKED:
1 & 2: Smoked can't only affect only top or bottom part of the face - it goes around the snout.
3 & 4: Smoked is a gradient marking - it can't have hard or slightly softened edges.
5. When creating smoke, imagine that it's spreading from the tip of the nose. So, as in this example, it cannot stop spreading on the top of the head and continue on the throat.
6. As with example 5; the smoke starts from the tip of the nose and spreads there. It can't affect only top half of the head.
7 & 8: Smoke cannot have holes or shapes in it.
Examples and ideas for SMOKE in existing Kukus
(Remember that directly copying a marking idea is not recommended, but rather use them as inspiration):
Dominant:
