Making a pet based on my IRL cat
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So I'm making a pet based on my IRL cat, Mizu. I just wanted to gather some opinions and see what people think!
For the profile, I'm trying to make it like an SCP file page, with a bunch of notes that seem like they were recorded by a scientist monitoring her as an unknown entity.
Here's the link to the profile so far: Mizu
I made a custom overlay for her, too. Its still pending approval, though. I wanted to keep it on theme with the Nighmare pets, but also capture her likeness to the original photograph I used.
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And this is the photo it's based on:
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I'd love to hear some opinions or suggestions on how I can improve the profile and TC, and I'm also open to critiques on my artwork :)
I love the overlay! That picture is adorably evil looking and you captured the expression perfectly. And the shading of the fur mixed with the wisps of smoke work together really nicely. You also executed the "research notes" style of story super well! It's fun to read typical cat behavior as written by someone who's seemingly unfamiliar with such things. Breaking it into different sections was a good idea, too; it helps keep it from feeling too monotonous.
My one critique would be that the text is a bit hard to read with everything being uppercase. Maybe you could use a more extreme monospace font to get the same aesthetic with lowercase letters? A couple possibilities I saw on google fonts were: "Share Tech Mono" for a classic research notes feel, "VT323" for a old computer feel, or "Xanh Mono" for a typewriter feel. There also are a couple little spelling errors: poseses -> possesses; outtages -> outages; capabilites -> capabilities; desctructive outburts -> destructive outbursts.
And here's a few more potential treasure item ideas!
Ahh thankyou so much! All the items you linked helped a lot! I definitely see what you're saying about the font being a big hard to read, I'll definitely be looking into some better fonts. I kept trying to make it bigger because I'm dyslexic, so the monospaced font helps me weed out typos quite a lot. :)
I'm so happy to hear that you liked my idea! I had the idea because I was listening to one of those "humans are space orcs" stories and I thought it would be so funny to write about my cat in a similar way, and the SCP format worked perfectly! ^^
Again thanks so much for the advice. I really appreciate you taking the time to read through her profile ❤️
