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I missed them, so I’ll have to join the lurkers. I’ll put in a second suggestion for dark beards though, especially as most grullos have dark faces anyway. I always find myself doing unicorn beards to match the manes and tails, it just feels more finished to me.
Thrippa wrote:I missed them, so I’ll have to join the lurkers. I’ll put in a second suggestion for dark beards though, especially as most grullos have dark faces anyway. I always find myself doing unicorn beards to match the manes and tails, it just feels more finished to me.
I guess that’s what I was asking in my original comment, I agree with you Thrippa – it seems like the beard should be the same colour as the hair on the unicorn or in this case, dark/black. I did buy one, and I also wondered why part of the tail at the hind end was left unpainted, it looks weird to me. Maybe thats how real Gruella/Grullas are because I don’t look at horse butts haha. It looks somewhat unfinished or something. Is it just me?
Poems wrote:Thrippa wrote:I missed them, so I’ll have to join the lurkers. I’ll put in a second suggestion for dark beards though, especially as most grullos have dark faces anyway. I always find myself doing unicorn beards to match the manes and tails, it just feels more finished to me.
I guess that’s what I was asking in my original comment, I agree with you Thrippa – it seems like the beard should be the same colour as the hair on the unicorn or in this case, dark/black. I did buy one, and I also wondered why part of the tail at the hind end was left unpainted, it looks weird to me. Maybe thats how real Gruella/Grullas are because I don’t look at horse butts haha. It looks somewhat unfinished or something. Is it just me?
I didnt buy one, so maybe someone eles can answer… but it seems like the dorsal stripe is not centered…and the two toned bottom is odd…. anyone eles’s Unicorn like that? :shrug:
I don’t have one, but I can say that in dun horses, the outer hairs of the mane and tail often are non-black. Norwegian Fjords (http://www.nfhr.com/catalog/index.php?colors=1) are a good example, as the manes are trimmed to emphasize the central, dark stripe. Notice the outer hairs on the tails are also light. Other duns have the entire mane an tail black (or red, in the case of red duns), with few or no lighter hairs.
With unicorns and pegasi, who knows?
Thrippa wrote:I don’t have one, but I can say that in dun horses, the outer hairs of the mane and tail often are non-black. Norwegian Fjords (http://www.nfhr.com/catalog/index.php?colors=1) are a good example, as the manes are trimmed to emphasize the central, dark stripe. Notice the outer hairs on the tails are also light. Other duns have the entire mane an tail black (or red, in the case of red duns), with few or no lighter hairs.
With unicorns and pegasi, who knows?
lol, true, with the Uni’s and Peg’sss who knows! 😉 I still think the beards would look neat matching the mane’s; but what do I know!! Thanks for the link, yes I see where the outer hairs are light on some of them.
Mine are sitting at the post office so tomorrow I can see if mine has an asymmetrical butt as well, that sort of looks like a piece that wasn’t finished completely to me though
My male’s butt is similar to yours but it doesn’t look so severe in my lighting, it looks normal on my piece. The beard on mine even has some darker shading. The only thing I think I would like changed about my male is some sort of facial marking or something, maybe its just the lighting since the sun isn’t up here but the face just looks kind of broad on the male with nothing to break it up… I’ll be able to see better in the morning. They’re both still very pretty, and I love the dorsal strips 🙂
Looking at the pictures, it doesn’t look unfinished to me; it looks like the tail is mostly white, but the dorsal stripe continues onto the tail so the top part of it is dark. I haven’t seen any of them in person though, so that’s just going off of what is here.
I like them much better in natural lighting I decided 😀 My incandescent desk lamp is very unkind to them but natural light brings out all their detailed shading. Mine even seem to have some leg barring
On Grullas the dorsal stripe does run into the tail. If the horse has a light tail then it will be dark on top, light on bottom. Some grullas appear to have solid dark tails though.
Grulla pics:
http://www.grullablue.com/colors/shades.htm
http://www.grullablue.com/colors/grullocolor.htmAlso, Melody, I squeak for silver grulla pegasi! :yes:
Yes it would be nice to have pegasi as well. Although I can decide if I like the light version or the dark version until I see both 😀
pegasi1978 wrote:Any chance of the pegasus family making an appearance in (silver and/or slate) grulla?
I guess ther is no reason they couldn’t, but I was going to make them a different color, just to be different.
Is the pegasus in your avatar pic a grulla pegasus?…And is that by… oh, what’s his name -that book cover illustrator that did the Xanth books? -Darrel… uh :scratch: SWEET! Darrel Sweet?
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