Silver Dapple - WIP by Iceshark39

Work In Progress • Animals • posted on Jan 17, 2009

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Okay, a WIP to be sure, but I just got the fantastic textures and poses from CWRW and I've fallen in LOVE with them already! Just tinkering around until I get the hang of layers in PS7 or whatever program I end up using for the manes and tails. Just a little fun with light and color and experimenting with textures and out came what promises to be the start of a beautiful silver dapple stallion. I'll be working more on him, no doubt! ~~~~ And for those of you who wonder - Silver Dapple is a legitimate coat colour for horses. The silver dapple (Z) gene is a dilution gene that affects the black base coat color. It will typically dilute a black mane and tail to flaxen, and a black body to a shade of brown or chocolate. It is responsible for a group of coat colors in horses called "silver dapple" in the west, or "taffy" in Australia. The most common colors in this category are black silver and bay silver, referring to the respective underlying coat color. Mature black silvers typically have sooty white or silver manes and tails with a flat, non-fading, dark grey or grey-brown body coat. The body coat frequently exhibits dapples, rings of lighter-colored hair. Mature bay silvers retain their reddish bodies, though the presence of small amounts of silver often gives them a chocolate appearance. The mane and tail are usually a sooty silver, darker at the roots, and the legs are usually a flat, brownish-grey mottled with silver. The hair around the eyes and muzzle may also show signs of silvering. Silver dapple foals can be difficult to identify, but commonly have a pale, wheat-colored body coat, white eyelashes, and hooves with tapering vertical stripes. These characteristics fade over time. Red-based horses, such as chestnuts and chestnuts with other dilution factors (such as palominos, and cremello) may carry the silver dapple gene, and may pass it on to their offspring, but will not express the gene in their own body color. Wikipedia.org ~~~~ Mil Horse - DAZ Elegant Equine textures and poses - CWRW MPC - Land of the Sun - DAZ Fog Tool Deluxe III Lights by me