#candy lutari

[annafollies]

I may have gotten back into Neopets... here's my baby Marcy! 🐚🍬

[shinkoscribbles]

Candy pets! They're really pretty but really hard to render! XD

This is Tavasz, a character in the Neopian Times story I'm working on! She's a lot of fun, I'm excited to share her!

[adobe-outdesign]

I would love a meerca review! One of my earliest disappointments in life was waking up to find my adorable meerca standing on two feet with a shortened tail and one fist raised to the skies. Of all Neopets I feel like you’d be hard pressed to think of one that was done a greater disservice by conversion than the meerca.

Meercas are one of a only a few rodent 'pets, and between them, the Xweektok, and the Usul, Meercas definitely come across as the most rodent-esq—though which rodent is somewhat ambiguous. I like their faces a lot, which sport little dot eyes and a set of buck teeth.

The Meercas big theme and uniqueness comes from their tails. It's harder to tell with the converted art (which we'll get to shortly), but Meercas have incredibly long tails that they use to balance on. It's a fun premise that gives them a lot of personality, especially when combined with their round bodies.

Beyond that, Meercas have a good use of color, which white around the bulk the body, under their tails, and in their ears. My only nitpick is that in the converted art, the color underneath the tail bleeds a bit onto the outside, which isn't too big of a deal but always low-key bugs me.

Customization-wise, Meercas were unfortunately done pretty dirty. I'm not sure I can call them the worst case of conversion, because to be fair, conversion kind of requires all pets to be standing normally and to have a fist when possible. The issue is more with the entire premise of customization itself, but I'm not going to blame a converted pet for, well, being converted.

The Meerca at least doesn't change that much about the body at random the way the Wocky or Lutari did, and the old art was starting to look very dated, with minimal shading and some kind of janky anatomy. I also like how the converted version did things like remove the little hairs from the top of the head.

However, what I can't excuse with the converted Meerca is the absolute butchering of their tails. The entire point of this species is that their tails are stupidly long. Even if customization means they can't sit on their tails anymore, they could've at least kept the length, as it was the key element of the design. Maybe the concern was trying to keep the pet itself fairly centered, but like... have the tail curled up against the body, have it go vertically up above the body, fold it over on itself, there were tons of ways to keep the length. Unfortunately none of that was done, and we ended up with a sadder Meerca as a result.

Favorite Colours:

Candy: It's a gumball with those sour belt candies! It's absolutely perfect for the species, utilizing both their long tails and gumball bodies beautifully. The shading on the body is also richly detailed and gives it that extra bit of gumball shine, and the colors are nice and cohesive. Good stuff all around.

Striped: One of only two striped pets that doesn't default to being blue with pink stripes, the striped Meerca is a chipmunk, applying some lovely brown shades and lots and lots of stripes but stylizing them just enough to fit the body shape. I also like little details, like removing the outline around the white part of the body.

Woodland: Similar to the candy Meerca, the woodland Meerca takes full advantage of the round body and long tail to make it into a taro, a type of root vegetable. While its very different than most woodland pets, the tail works perfect and the body has lots of attention to detail.

BONUS: Maraquan Meercas, while not the best Maraquan pets, have to get at least a shout-out for the fun pufferfish concept. I do wish there was more color, maybe on the fins (I know pufferfish aren't known for having a ton of color, but this is a fantasy creature first and foremost), but the overall idea is very fun and it's one of the only ways to get the old Meerca expression post-customization. The converted and UC/styled version are literally identical save for the customized version sporting fists, which aren't as good at the original's hands but aren't too bothersome.

[tigris-types]

hello! I wanted to ask which of your pets is your favorite to draw? (Also I love all your darigan lutari designs!)

Thank you for asking!! And thank you for the compliment! I had fun making those designs!

So for those who don't know, here are my pets:

Top to bottom, left to right we have Tilleri the tyrannian peophin, Snow the magma eyrie, Anna the eerie pirate eyrie, Oak the green kougra, Jolly K the dimensional kougra, Sharkhorn the darigan flotsam, Jolly 0 the darigan ruki, Darkstrike the gold jetsam, Maplw the faerie lutari, and Maggie the candy zafara.

10 pets are characters and are permanent, I have a lab pet that I also use for the daily quests, so they're a tradable collection of pixels. (Currently a glowing aisha is anyone wants it)

So now to answer the question!

It's easily (looks left and right to make sure the pets can't hear) Jolly K! Tigers are my favorite animal, and so kougras are my favorite neopet. And I like drawing tigers, but what really pushed Jolly K over the edge compared to the rest is how I color her.

I thought the dimensional color was cool, and then I made her character based on her color. She ended up becoming a mage, and I love witches too! So she has a lot of fun witch outfits, which also makes her fun to draw, but back to her color.

On Colors3D, if you erase most of a color, multiply the layer, merge it with itself, and repeat, you get this cool corruption effect. It makes the colors more saturated and increase the contrast, which can make an overall more dynamic piece. It also makes cool looking fire like shapes on the edges, which works with how I interpret the dimensional color to be a combination of dark, air, and light magic. For example, if you look just beyond her glowing outline, you can see the corrupted color.

I also like using this same technique for the fire and magma on Snow.

Snow is my 3rd favorite to draw because I don't have as many outfits her as I do for Maple, who is my 2nd favorite to draw (Maple's also been cross-painted the most). Here's my most recent drawing of Maple celebrating getting to thr Secret Ninja Training School, and I also just got to 500 strength today!

This isn't her usual look, as this is showing off her stealthy/faerie crosspaint look for this occasion.

Please feel free to ask me about my Neopets! I love talking about them!!

[pteracuda]

The thing about painting Neopets is that even if other colours are better I get attached to them as they are. Like yeah maybe a split Usul isn't that impressive but that's just what she IS. And transforming them is even wilder because like. Yeah I could use my morphing potion but she's not a Hissi. It feels weird lmao.

Anyway I have a snow Flotsam but I also have a silver paint brush and they look sooo good silver. Thinking abput getting an Eyrie to take to the magma pool. Thinking about adopting something with a good name to turn into an ice Hissi. I think want an orange paint brush for my Lutari and I think I still want a candy Kougra.

Actually I have a speckled Kougra too but its name isn't really great

[unofficial-til-death-roblox]

i cant sleep uh i like to ink that lutari or itari whatever i like to ink her glasses are like ultra high tech and they kinda are like. phone glasses or something like from.homestuck and during her breaks she just plays candy crush or something on them

[nicepets]

Pet: Rayleaa

Owner: greyfever

[deoverse]

I recently got a Candy Lutari and I LOOOVE her in all her candy glittery glory! Here she is, my Candy Lutari TicklishLicorice!! 

[neopalettes]

candy lutari

[pumakaji64]

Neopets update, it's been awhile but I have two new pets! On lutari day not only did I manage to finally get a lutari but I also found a pirate draik egg selling for a good price while I was looking for secret lab map pieces! I've never had either of these pets before so i'm feeling pretty stoked!

[niccage]

playing video games should be about having fun! pokemon is about making a team that makes you HAPPY! there will always be assholes playing games. fuck em all. you're so fucking cool, ya know???? PLAY ANY GAME YA WANT. aksjfdgnklkasdsjfg iloveyou <3

YOU ARE SO SWEET! <3 fortunately it’s a memory that i look back at and laugh on, but i truly cannot Game(TM) on a level any higher than neopets i’m afraid. OH and i still have my nintendogs. but i might try and figure out the among us thing. Get some real gamer status. 

[farharbour]

oh speaking of neo ocs i finally narrowed down my list of pets i would die to have and it’s still so long

[shinkoscribbles]

Detailed background image for August! This time @tigerwriter suggested I do a drawing of a neopets world, so I chose the subject of my in-progress Neopian Times story, the Haunted Woods! I was originally going to try to enter this picture into the Art Gallery, but I just could not get it small enough to work within the size limitation (600px! 80kb!) without it becoming essentially indecipherable. Oh well!

My biggest gripe with this drawing is that Tavasz (the lutari) looks super rendered compared to the rest of the image, but I'm not fully sure how to get around that and still have her look like a candy pet. XD Oh well!

[neodone]

turns out i got pulled back heavy into neopets

thanks to this fucker

he’s my gay son i love him

[tigris-types]

I'll be out most of the day today, but it will still be fun to answer any questions when I get back! Please ask about my neopets!

Top to bottom, left to right we have Tilleri the tyrannian peophin, Snow the magma eyrie, Anna the eerie pirate eyrie, Oak the green kougra, Jolly K the dimensional kougra, Sharkhorn the darigan flotsam, Jolly 0 the darigan ruki, Darkstrike the gold jetsam, Maple the faerie lutari, and Maggie the candy zafara.

[grarrlsaregreat]

For the most part I haven’t really been all that interested in Candy pets outside of thinking they look nice, but goddamn I really REALLY like that Candy Lutari