You know something that always bothered me about Lady and the Tramp? The puppies. First of all they should have been spayed and neutered (shut up, had to be said XD) Second of all, how the hell would they have three purebred looking cocker spaniel puppies and one exact Tramp clone? As much as I love that movie that's just...stupid. The puppies would have been mutts in every sense of the word. So, here are a couple tries at how I think Lady and the Tramp's puppies should have looked, with traits of both. I might make more later if I feel inspired to do so. The background for this is craft paper (I cut out the characters to set them against it) 'cause it's fun playing around with that stuff.
I totally agree with you! It probably would have made the movie that much better, but im sure Scamps movie wouldn't have been as good. But still. I agree with this Disney mutt nonsense!
While I don't mind the whole "girl pups look like Lady while their brother looks like Tramp" thing too much, when I make my own pups for "Lady and the Tramp"/"Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure" characters, they look like mixes of their parents and I actually have a Scamp/Angel pup who has Scamp's build, Angel's tail, Lady's ears and assorted colors and markings from his decidedly mixed heritage. Unfortunately his siblings who are slightly more mixed than their father and aunts but still take heavily after one parent make fun of him because he's a more obvious mixed breed than they are. And while I agree that in real life, dogs should be spayed/neutered, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief and enjoy the fantasy. On a closing note, these are ADORABLE and I wish I could both draw this cute and draw period.
XDDD the fixing part of your comment DEFINITELY applies to 101 Dalmatians, too. XDDDD (do dogs really have 15 puppies in one litter, though?)
anyways... yeah genetics and animators...
that background craft paper looks exactly like a photo i took of grass in an attempt to have another texture for grass in my drawings (it didn't work there, but i like how you've used it here! )
oh yeah, I totally agree there XD it always upset me how in 101 Dalmatians (at least one version of it) they went on to say how "and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children" so I guess they just kept letting them breed out of control, went on to be animal hoarders and never once stopped to think about the dogs in the shelters they could have been saving instead. but hey, it's fiction, thank god...sad thing is some people don't know how to separate fiction from reality. I'm not sure about dalmatians but the largest litter of puppies on record is 24, born to a Neopolitan mastiff. Size matters when it comes to litters, larger dogs often have larger litters where as smaller dogs have smaller...sometimes only one or two in the case of toy size breeds like chihuahuas.
....I went off on a ramble, sorry Thanks so much, I found that craft paper at a yard sale last summer (along with a few others) they've been really fun to play around with
Awww, they're cute! And lol, I know right? That always bothered me too. I mean, my mom had a purebred Lhasa Apso when she was a kid, and she had a lot of puppies with mutts (I know, I know, but it was a different time back then, and people pretty much just let all their dogs run loose; at least when they lived out in the country, which my mom did), and she swears that while most of the pups looked like... well, mutts, there was one little female pup that looked identical to the mom; a purebred Lhasa Apso in looks, despite it's obvious mixed blood. ^^ So, there are instances of it happening... But to that extreme? Where all but one pup looks identical to the mom, while that one pup looks just like it's dad? lol No. XD
Another instance I can think of is "Balto"; or rather, the sequel, "Wolf Quest." Aleu looked enough like a wolf/husky mix, I guess, but the rest of the puppies... It sorta bothered me that they were all red huskies like Jenna; I mean, first of all, huskies can come in many different colors, regardless of the parentage. A red husky could have grey pups, white pups, black pups, etc... Of course, I guess that goes with the whole "it would confuse children" excuse that cartoon movies are so fond of using, and I understand it... Plus I get that the whole point was for Aleu to stick out from the rest of her siblings, being the only one who actually looks like a wolf, blah, blah, but still... it kinda annoys me. XD
Yeah, that's another great example XD Aside from Aleu all of the puppies in Wolf Quest looked like clones of Jenna (I think there was one that had a darker face, at least - his markings were more unique) I think you're right in that it draws back to the "we're making it easy for kids to see the odd one out" excuse
And I like everything you said about "Lady and the Tramp", too...
Still, one of my favourite childhood movies.
XDDD the fixing part of your comment DEFINITELY applies to 101 Dalmatians, too. XDDDD (do dogs really have 15 puppies in one litter, though?)
anyways... yeah genetics and animators...
that background craft paper looks exactly like a photo i took of grass in an attempt to have another texture for grass in my drawings (it didn't work there, but i like how you've used it here!
....I went off on a ramble, sorry
Another instance I can think of is "Balto"; or rather, the sequel, "Wolf Quest." Aleu looked enough like a wolf/husky mix, I guess, but the rest of the puppies... It sorta bothered me that they were all red huskies like Jenna; I mean, first of all, huskies can come in many different colors, regardless of the parentage. A red husky could have grey pups, white pups, black pups, etc... Of course, I guess that goes with the whole "it would confuse children" excuse that cartoon movies are so fond of using, and I understand it... Plus I get that the whole point was for Aleu to stick out from the rest of her siblings, being the only one who actually looks like a wolf, blah, blah, but still... it kinda annoys me. XD