Welcome to the official Drakiri design guide!

You can download all the templates here! There are also satin and scale shine and shade guides, coat colors for references, as well as legacy versions of bases that have been updated but can still be used with a Legacy Potion.

Import Extras

• ~ You may move your Drakiri around on the canvas to make them more centered depending on their traits. You do this by selecting the entire Drakiri folder and moving the entire Drakiri to better fit. Do not resize or crop the canvas.
• -There are several free markings that can be added to your import! Click HERE for the guides on those!

• ~Drakiri has a lot of variety, with numerous different physical trait types! There are a fair amount of traits that do clip a bit when combined. This is something that can not be avoided! When this clipping occurs, you are absolutely permitted and encouraged to modify the line art to make them work together. Horns and ears, specifically, are the most likely to need edits in the lineart. Ears can be subtly resized, re-positioned, parts of them erased where the ears would lay beneath them. These are ALL free edits! The little clipping issues with traits are a side effect of so much variety! You may make minor line art edits and/or move traits around to make them fit better with other traits on your Drakiri, or to show personality. They can not be moved too much and line edits should be minor. This must be subtle and it must not be staggering enough to make the Drakiri look odd or the fur to flow in the wrong direction. Ears can be rotated back a bit, or forward. Horns can be shifted for better placement with the ears, and tails can be lifted and lowered slightly.
• ~ Hanuman, Fluffed, Vulpine and Feline tails can either follow the coloration and markings of the base coat or the mane. The Curled tail on a Nightmare can follow the scales in colors, the base coat, the mane or the color of a real life scorpion.

• ~ You may make small line art edits to make the Drakiri yours, such as adding a bit of fuzz to the cheeks, muzzle, or chin, or light feathering but it must not significantly change anything, or resemble another trait/mutation. Take a look at the Extras folders on the Kainu template for examples of what you can do. Adding bangs to your Drakiri's mane is free and does not require an item, but the lineart edit must flow with the lineart of the Drakiri itself. 

• ~Subtle outlines are allowed around the Drakiri's body, and lines may be colored. They can either be lighter or darker than the base coat color. The line color must flow smoothly with the Drakiri's colors. They shouldn't be so light or so saturated compared to the rest that they blend into the Drakiri itself. The outline can either be a hard outline around the Drakiri, or softened. It must not stick out too much and should be subtle, simply meant to bring your Drakiri out of the background a bit.

What do I do if the Templates are too big for my art program?

Because of the sheer size of the Drakiri templates, some art programs, such as Sai (the first version), may not be able to open them as-is. You may ask another player to trim the file down for you, or you may use Photopea to trim the file, save as PSD, and then open the trimmed file in your art program.

www.photopea.com/
Photopea is a free in-browser photo editing app. You can open the file using that, delete the folders you won't be using, save, and open with Sai or other programs that have trouble with bigger files.

Additionally, you can try Medibang Paint or FileApaca. Some mobile users have been able to use IbisPaint after the layer amount was trimmed down.

Regarding Paint Tool Sai, if you bought the first version and are still using it, you can upgrade for completely free to Version 2 here: https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/devdept.html
Sai 2 is capable of handling big files.

Marking Guide

Drakiri has numerous markings that you can breed for! The link above has them listed, and linked to their respective guides.

Eye, Flesh, Horn, Hoof, and Mane Color Guides

Mutation Guides (WIP)

Physical Traits

Find all Base Coats and Modifier swatches, here!

Markings can appear in natural colors or shades of the base coat on a modified coat.

There are some optional special effects that can be had with the more common coat modifiers, such as Silver, Dilute, and Darken!

Silver can create a nice Perlino effect, desaturating the body, but leaving the belly, legs, and points more saturated.
Dilute can create a Champagne effect! This is similar to Perlino, but instead of desaturating, it can lighten the Drakiri, leaving the limbs and points darker, or the reverse, keeping the main body with some parts diluted/faded
Darken can create a Grullo effect! This darkens the belly, legs, and muzzle, but leaves the rest of the Drakiri untouched. 

Copper appears in orangs, but the markings can appear in greens, giving a tarnished copper effect

Sunglow is not restricted to the sunset themed palettes provided. It can use any sunset or sunrise themed color palette.

Floral's palettes can be used in any way on the Drakiri that has that compound modifier

Ocean can have various blues and greens as markings, even if they are not on the palettes.

Chroma: When all four color modifiers are present (Erythrism, Jade, Topaz and Sapphire), the basecoat can take on a brilliant rainbow gradients, much like Sunglow but with more colors. It can create rainbow gradients across the Drakiri's body, and can effect the hooves, horn/s and flesh. The markings appear in black, even Underbelly and Pangare don't need Reversal to be black, making these brilliant Drakiri very striking in appearance. This modifier will cause the entire Drakiri to glow brightly if Firefly is present.