I can't seem to upload this with the black pearl. it's in the right format. what do i do?

Can someone help me with putting my creation onto the template? Does the template need to have no white background? It has confused me a little bit.

Save this and submit this

Yes just message me your coat or post it here

Hello everyone! Just a quick question. Does the final submission need to include the template? Or do we just resize our coat to fit within the template but then only submit the cost itself?

Also, this is the cost I’ve been working on, still a work in progress but I’m getting there. I’m also thinking of submitting a couple other colors of this same coat. What do you guys think?

It needs to include the template

I just submitted a coat and afterwards there was a pop up bar at the top that mentioned something about "validation steps" but it disappeared before I could click it. Is there anything else I need to do or was that just referring to the rest of the creation space process?

I was just wondering how all you amazing artists manage to create such beautiful work inside the 400px template?

I first drew my design triple the size so I could get enough detail (using AutoDesk Sketchbook) but when I resized to fit inside the frame, it's all pixelated!

Is there a specific drawing software you use that resizes your work perfectly or do you literally just draw in the original 400px template? I tried drawing in a 400px size but maybe it's the app I'm using that doesn't work well for such a small canvas size

There really isn't any way to cheat it, resizing will change quality very drastically. Also its 300x300 px.
I would not recommend drawing on a 300 px canvas however, this makes it very hard to add details that may or may not show up in the resized version because you are working with pixels instead of large brushes and strokes. Instead I would work on a 900x900 or 800x800 canvas. But that's just my personal opinion, it's not impossible to draw on 300x300 canvas.

As an experiment, i drew two horses, one on a small canvas and one on a large canvas, you can see the differences in quality:

300x300 canvas:

1400x1200 canvas (originally):

Thanks for your comments nash12. Yeah it's rather frustrating and definitely not ideal to draw in 300 canvas.

So how would you go about submitting that grey uni peg then? Surely you must resize your work to fit the 300px space before submitting?

That's the dilemma I have, because the file size needs to be the same as the template right? So you'd either have to resize it or just draw on a 300 canvas from the start. Unless I'm missing something lol

Also what software do you use? Maybe this impacts how the image turns out after resizing...

Yes, you have to resize it down, I use GIMP since it seems to be pretty good for resizing. I also use the interpolation feature and set it to cubic or linear and it works pretty well.

I use Krita and i always slightly sharpen when i've resized.

whats the best way to resize on gimp? I have a 800 x 800 but when I resize it turns into a pixel mess. Using the sharpening tool doesnt seem to help either...

Does anyone have a step by step process they use when resizing on gimp?

I dont use GIMP, but i just resize to 300 and then sharpen a bit and it always looks fine :/ I know lots of people struggle w resizing though.

1. Use some kind of interpolation. (cubic or linear works fine) the box of choices looks like this:

2. Brush on the details you want to 'highlight' with a 1-pixel brush.
3. If none of those work, try zooming out to 100% and seeing if it looks 'crisp' that's kind of what you want and that it might look like on the game depending on your display.
4. If none of those work than just submit it anyways, a lot of coats are blurry and not that sharp, especially if you zoom in to look at them.

Thank you both for the help, think I might just submit it hopefully the coat doesnt look too blurry

What karma points do you currently need to enter?

I really need this info, please!

At the top of the page it says 5 karma points, you can also look on the karma page and that will tell you

I've been looking around the coats for like an hour and I've never seen a racing thoroughbred... Or any running\jumping horse in general... Is that not allowed? Or is it just something people don't like so it doesn't get picked?
PS And if the coat doesn't get selected can I at least use it for myself?

There are a lot of those types of coats, there are just so many out there they can be hard to find! It does not help you find all of them by a long shot, but you can go into coat directories and type in "Jump" or "Thoroughbred" into the coat name and a few show up that you may be looking for.

If a coat does not get selected, no one can use it (including you) but you can send it in again for the next month if you want to try again.

Is anyone able to clarify if tack (i.e. saddles and bridles) is allowed? I have come across a few coats with tack in the directories, but I distinctly remember tack being prohibited in my early Howrse days. Has that rule changed or maybe has it never existed in the first place?

It was against the rules,these days they seem to be more...accepted? But the rules do say no tack. Unless it was completely removed recently (but wasn't updated). Welcome to creation space where a lot of rules are learned by...doing art and submitting XD Reminds me of the old foal-rule (no foal art allowed). people kept sending them in so eventually the rule was taken away. The tack-rule kinda works the same way.