#colorpoint

[felinefractious]

Ember Mystery Mask*RU

🐱 Sacred Birman

📸 Naumenko Aleksej [Astra Venetum]

🎨 Seal Point Mitted [Birman Gloving]

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Temperature-sensitive colors

The temperature-sensitivity of certain cat colorations is a spectacular phenomenon. Different parts of the cat will show different shades, since the efficiency of pigment production now depends on the local temperature, so it works better on the extremities than on the body.

Here's a picture of the heat emmission pattern of a cat, and next to it a photo of a colorpoint kitty:

Source: this video

It really is similar, isn't it?

You can follow this effect on kittens: before they are born, they bath in the even warmth of the womb, so first they’re evenly white colored, then quickly start to gain their marks: first only on the nose, the ears and the tail, only later a full mask and darker legs.

The development of Best Angel's Fernando, a black point mitted ragdoll:

Mink and sepia cats also do this, but they are darker at every given point then their pointed equivalents.

Meowmar’s Hel, black sepia burmese:

This temperature sensitivity works on adult cats, too: if a cat loses some of its fur for some reason, and later it grows back, it’ll be noticeably darker then the surrounding area, because the naked skin means the temperature is lower there.

This cat from messybeast had a leg injury that needed surgery, so now he wears pants until the next molt.

An interesting question is whether the karpati pattern is temperature-based or not. It often called "reverse colorpoint", because the most whitish areas are suspiciusly the same as on colorpoints: limbs, face, ears. It also changes most in the first months - however the direction of the change is the same: they born light and darken with age.

The development of Pablo Grey Heart, a black karpati transylvanian cat (he's one of the lighter kittens I believe):

[bizarrebuns]

"Winter" - Hamilton, ON

Listed as a "rabbit" but I'm pretty sure that's an insect

[idlespright]

Draw me like one of your french girls.

[fuwafuwa-jellybeans]

[aroaceart]

@owlart18 Cattember Day 9: Making Biscuits

This was surprisingly fun to draw! Especially since it's messing with poses and angles. And drawing not just fabric, but lots and lots of wrinkles in fabric. I didn't do amazing, but I think I did okay...?

[nanmo-wakaran]

daily brushing

[pebiejeebies]

ur boards are so prtty !!! could u make one for a cream point ragdoll cat with cozy autumn themes? :D

Omg tysm! And ofc! Here you go <3

Don’t be afraid to ask me to edit something, or add a new picture btw! If you like my moodboards, send me an ask! <3

(Made by me, for @peacesparadoxx)

[pawptropica]

Gretchen Grimlock from cryptids island

Gretchen Grimlock is a flamepoint Persian cat!

[colacat53]

Raincode Cat AU Part 3!

Amaterasu Peacekeepers!

individual drawings(in order of me drawing them):

cat breeds:

Yomi - some sort of colorpoint

Guillaume - munchkin

Martina - Javanese

Dominic - Sphynx AKA Hairless Cat

Seth - Siberian

Swank - Devon Rex

[felinefractious]

🐱 Balinese

📸 Julia Mira

🎨 Chocolate Point

[bizarrebuns]

"Morus" - Great Neck, NY

Beautiful patchy man sporting a lumphead most unique. What is that divot even for.

[artataliaf]

dragons in colors

[rain-does-art]

finalized fullbody commission for bunflower ~

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speedpaint under cut!

[nepja]

Akemi 🥰

She loves to cuddle!

[ostrichlingswarriorcatscorner]

The power I feel when I explain this to anybody