Sooty

Examples 

Basics

Sooty is a textured or ticked marking that darkens the topline and/or bottomline of a ketucari’s body. 
In your ketucari’s genotype, sooty is represented by “nSy” (heterozygous) or “SySy” (homozygous)
In its heterozygous form, sooty has a passrate of 60%. Homozygous sooty has a passrate of 85%

Color and Shape

Sooty must be a darker color of your chosen base, with a minor deviation in hue. It can also be a fully desaturated color of the base, as long as it is darker. Sooty may be pure black.
 
 

These colors would be acceptable for this base color. They are either a darker version of the base, or a darker and desaturated version of the base. The last color on the right shows a minor deviation in hue, and is slightly more yellow than the base itself. Notice that this small change is not overbearing.

 

These colors would be unacceptable for sooty. They are either lighter than the base coat or have too drastic a hue shift.

Sooty is a “rim” gene that affects the topline, bottom, or both of a ketucari. It is heavily textured, with the intention of resembling heavily ticked fur. The sample below has some different styles of texturing that could be used to create sooty.

Sooty should spread from the edges of the ketucari, and resembles the ticking on the back of a wolf or similar creature. This can be accomplished by drawing the marking in bars, or erasing ticks into a textured marking.  It should not appear disconnected from the edges of the ketucari except to conform to perspective-- it spreads from the spine and/or the midline of the belly.

Range 

Sooty has no minimum, but must be immediately visible on the design. Sooty can appear in the blue area of the range, but the textured part can spread into the green area if the marking is already present in the blue area nearby.

Interaction with Other Markings

Sooty and Frosted can accent each other, sharing a range and adding both light and dark ticks to the marking, as in Jed above. This can present very minimally, as long as some light/dark ticking is visible.

Accents

Sooty can have a subtle gradient or fade into the base coat.