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Ket Shi wrote:Want it smaller?

EEE! I love it umm... yea probaly Ill try it and see if it fits

Hello, Ket Shi. Are you still accepting requests for signatures?

Yep, still am.

Ket Shi wrote:

*Drools*

Ket Shi wrote:

Oh, that is awesome!

Ket Shi wrote:

MY BOB HAS RETURNED *hug* :3

OOH Thank you! Tis truly epicness incarnate!

Do you still take requests for avatars?

If so could you make me an avatar of the blue monkey. I would a shoulder up shot maybe, with a mining helmet and pick slung across shoulder, if possible.

Just wanted to say I really love your work.

Ket Shi wrote:

Holy cats that's awesome!!!!

Ket Shi wrote:

YES! It's so perfect. Thank you so so much, I love your work

Heres a funny question. Can you, or would you want to draw real life dogs? I'd love a drawn picture of my Yoshi.

Heres a couple pics of him:



These two are from when he was younger, but they show his body shape better.





Just a siggy size of him curled up or sitting would be nice. Especially if he had Yoshi <Kyonarai's Pet> above his head.

What an adorable pup! What breed is he -- Saint Bernard or something else?

Smooth coated Saint bernard. He is from show lines, which tend to be a lot bigger/bulkier than most pet saints. Saint bernards are one of those breeds who have a lot of variation in their members. This is partly due to back yard breeding which resulted from the popularity of the Beethoven movies, and partly because they originally had two standards. Swiss and English. The english preferred their saints taller and lankier, and preferred the rough coat, While the Swiss liked theres burly and muscular, and preferred the smooth coat, which were the original saints.

Due to the beethoven movies, and the saint's history, most americans are familiar only with the rough coated saint(even though Missy in beethoven 2 was a smooth!) but the original saints were all smooth coated. After a few particularly harsh winters, the monks that owned the saints decided to cross their dogs with the Newfoundland in order to get longer, warmer coats and larger size. Unfortunately, that backfired, because the long-haired saints had ice crystals form in their long fur and were eventually weighed down by it, so that they couldn't do rescue work in the snow.

So the monks decided to sell or give the long-haired puppies to the lowland farmers to use as farm and draft dogs(for hauling milk and wood, mostly) and they kept the shorthaired dogs for themselves. Because of this, it was the rough coated saints that the outside world came to know first, and they've always been more popular.

There are a lot of overly lanky saints around. Every now and then, I'll have someone tell me their dog is a saint and I just want to cringe. Another thing that happens are that some people still want to breed to the old swiss standard, which had a smaller head(looks more like a Great pyrenees). The newer standard calls for a more mastiff-like dog with a large head. That's all fine and good, but what those people miss is that a saint should still be a powerful, well muscled dog, even with the smaller head. What they end up with is a much smaller dog with a curled up fan tail and no muscle.

Good quality saints: This is Yoshi's mom and dad.



and one of his dad's show pics:



A nice smooth male, not related to Yoshi at all:



I personally love a good smooth, and most Judges that only judge saints will rate a quality smooth over a rough of the same quality, because theres no way to hide defects under the fur on a smooth. On the other side of that though, all-breed judges tend to rate roughs higher because the rough saint has a more appealing look, which makes them easier to show, because of being able to hide small defects by fluffing their fur up or smoothing it down in different spots. But personally, I love the warhound type look that the smooths have, and you don't have to spend two hours grooming them before a show.

Ok, random Saint bernard history lesson that you prolly didn't want is over now.... Sorries!!!! It was longer actually, but I edited myself!

And on that note:

Dogs: Blizzard is doing it wrong.



(Just a joke, in case anyone can't tell!)

Heh, that's a good point. The diversity of the dog family could be radically improved with something not much more complicated than a palette swap!

Sorry about the delay; expect your picture tomorrow.

Just out of curiosity.. are you using Illustrator?