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Scourge Canon Wikia Description

Scourge is a small black tom with one white paw, ice-blue eyes, glossy fur, and a torn left ear. He has a purple collar studded with teeth from dogs and cats, and claws reinforced with dogs’ teeth.

Squirrelflight Canon Wikia Description

Squirrelflight is a dark flame-colored she-cat with forest-green eyes. She has one white paw, short legs, a torn ear tip, glossy fur, and a long, squirrel-like, bushy tail.

El Guante Blanco Canon Wikia Description

El Guante Blanco is a black cat with blue eyes and one white paw. He has clothing similar to Puss (cowboy hat and belt with sword) but doesn’t wear boots. He has similar appearance to Kitty softpaws.

All three have one white front paw, which isn’t genetically plausible. For Squirrelflight and El Guante Blanco, it’s the left paw. For Scourge, it is either the left one or the right one.

El Guante Blanco and The Adventures of Puss in Boots: © Dreamworks

Scourge, Squirrelflight, and the Warriors book series: © Erin Hunter

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Left: animated male calico cats Right Animated female calico cats Tortoiseshell and calico patterned cats are almost always female due to the codominant O (orange) gene being sex-linked. Only one in 3000 torties and calicos are male, and male ones are the result of chimerism, are Klinefelters, or have a somatic mutation. </p> Fuku Fuku, Mike, and Chi’s Sweet Home: (c) Konami Kanata Mela, In My Pocket toyline, Puppy in my Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville: (c) MEG Sheriff Callie, Mochi, Mr. Whiskers, Tinkerbell and The Great Fairy Rescue, Big Hero 6, and Sheriff Callie’s Wild West: (c) Disney Gonzalo, Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos, Pig, and Home: (c) Dreamworks Spoons and Pound Puppies (2010): (c) Hasbro Studios Smitten with Kittens, Calico Kittens, Kitten, Les Miseranimals, and Animaniacs: (c) Warner Bros.

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Left: animated male calico cats Right Animated female calico cats

Tortoiseshell and calico patterned cats are almost always female due to the codominant O (orange) gene being sex-linked. Only one in 3000 torties and calicos are male, and male ones are the result of chimerism, are Klinefelters, or have a somatic mutation.

Fuku Fuku, Mike, and Chi’s Sweet Home: © Konami Kanata Mela, In My Pocket toyline, Puppy in my Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville: © MEG Sheriff Callie, Mochi, Mr. Whiskers, Tinkerbell and The Great Fairy Rescue, Big Hero 6, and Sheriff Callie’s Wild West: © Disney Gonzalo, Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos, Pig, and Home: © Dreamworks Spoons and Pound Puppies (2010): © Hasbro Studios

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A lot of fan art I’ve seen of “tortoiseshell” warrior cats usually end up looking more calico, and I can’t blame the artists, because dark tortoiseshells are really hard. But which characters do you think are actual tortoiseshells, with lots of black, brown, cream and faint ginger stripes? Purely your opinion :) Thanks and have a great day!

Generally if a character is described as tortoiseshell I try to make them actually look tortoiseshell. It is hard to make tortie designs look both good and realistic, though, especially animation designs.

Here’s an old Spottedleaf design. She has that distinct tortoiseshell look, but it would be awful to animate.

Here’s the new one. Not a lot of white and still only two predominant colors, but much simpler. Some people add more than two colors, using patches of black, brown, cream and ginger to add interest, but that’s kind of a pet peeve of mine.

Here’s my recent redesign of Speckletail! She’s a chocolate tortie here. The stripes are super important for adding interest, so the design looks very complicated, but it can actually be colored in a series of simple steps. Still a bit complex for an animation design, but she won’t be shown often so we can get away with it here.

I think one of the struggles of designing torties is trying to make them look evenly patched. It’s easy to do one base color with spots of another, but designing a very mottled tortie while still trying to keep them simple is really hard. I still haven’t really figured it out.