Album Art Petz

Album Art Petz

Eight hexed petz in a line. The first is a spot-heavy Dalmatian with green eyes and a collar with a fire hydrant on it. The second is a black fluffy cat with a blue head, pink eyes, and three pink symbols floating around its head. The third is a white Siamese with dark spots, pink eyes, and a starry pattern on its face. The fourth is a Dachshund with light blue and pink fur and a purple hand for a head. The fifth is a pitch-black Maine Coon with a prism for a head, with the whiskers resembling a ray of light entering and leaving as a rainbow. The sixth is a blue-eyed red Scottie holding a sword, with the sword's blade having three rings on it and a fourth being used as a dog collar. The seventh is a tan Poodle with green, moss-like fur and a pink water lily as a tail puff. The last is a grey, chunky cat with a variety of blue, green, and yellow splotches.

I've had this idea for a hexing project since almost the beginning of the site, but I haven't gotten to it until now, somehow!

This was loosely inspired by Hollow Kingdom's book cover hexing challenge. I thought that was a really cool idea, and decided to do my own small thing around the same lines!

Just as a fun fact, every album cover I use here I have at least one song from!

Signals

To start, I went with an easy one: the dalmatian from the cover of Rush's album Signals. If you've seen me on either a Petz forum or Discord, then you probably know a single-line chunk of this album — I used to use "Drawn like moths, we drift into the city" as a signature/status on both, and that's a lyric from the song "Subdivisions" on this album!

A comparison of the album art of the Signals album, featuring a dalmatian sniffing a fire hydrant, and the hexed dog based off of it, a spot-heavy Dalmatian with green eyes and a collar with a fire hydrant on it.

Signal was very easy to hex. I basically bred a Dalmatian to have a ton of spots, hexed on a ton more, gave her a black patch over one eye, and made a tiny fire hydrant collar for her. I also made sure she had green eyes to bring a little bit of the grassy background into the hex!

"Higher Power"

Okay, this one isn't really an "album" ("Higher Power" is a single, the album is Coldplay's Music of the Spheres), but I like the single cover art way more than the album art. Did you know these symbols are a ciphered language? Check out this image from Reddit to see the translation key!

A comparison of the single cover art of Higher Power, with a circular collection of alien symbols, and the hexed cat based off of it, a black fluffy cat with a blue head, pink eyes, and three pink symbols floating around his head. The symbols read 'cat' in the language from the album.

I used Andi@Cirrutopia's "ciraurora" palette for Higher, to give him that nice bluish gradient from his body to his head. There was no way I was going to put the entire collection of symbols onto him, so I settled for three symbols around his head that read "CAT". His eyes, ears, and whiskers match the symbols' pink colour for a sort of blacklight effect.

Pharmacy

Another kind of easy one. Galantis' Pharmacy already has this strange cat-looking creature on its cover, so why not try to hex it?

A comparison of the album art of the Pharmacy album, featuring a cat-like creature with a space pattern for a face, and the hexed cat based off of it, a white Siamese with dark spots, pink eyes, and a starry pattern on her face.

Macy here uses Riako@Cat2K's "arewestilllookingforbienergy" palette, which is both a great Pride palette and the best name for a palette I've ever heard, for that nice shimmery white fur. I wanted to make sure she had those pink eyes from the album, so I coloured her pupils as well and gave her a pinkish sclera (not pinkeye, just how it looks!). Her leopard-print texture is from Queenie@Phantasmagoria's Fantabby file, specifically "blackfantab28.bmp".

Worlds

Auughh, Porter Robinson's Worlds. I am one of the many people who cried listening to "Goodbye to a World", so naturally I had to do this one. I'm also an object-head fan, which is why I took that direction for Worlds...

A comparison of the album art of the Worlds album, featuring a purple hand holding a glowing cube against a sky background, and the hexed dog based off of it, a Dachshund with light blue and pink fur and a purple hand for a head.

Lex@Lunar Lex Petz's "purpleloverz" palette provided a near-perfect match to the colours in the album art, so that was nice! Worlds here has a ball instead of a cube because I really did not feel like making it. In another world (ha), maybe I'd have tried to put the kaomoji face from the album cover on the hand ball as well, but I'm actually kind of proud of my attempt at the "halo" of light around the cube.

The Dark Side of the Moon

If I was going to do an album art themed project, then obviously I needed to hex a pet based off of easily one of the most famous album arts of all time, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, with its prism.

A comparison of the album art of the Dark Side of the Moon album, featuring a prism splitting white light into a rainbow, and the hexed cat based off of it, a pitch-black Maine Coon with a prism for a head, with the whiskers resembling a ray of light entering and leaving as a rainbow.

Moon is the object-head cat to go with Worlds' object-head dog! I'm actually quite fond of his wireframe-ish head. He uses my own palette, "voidpetz", because it had the crispest rainbow colours of all the palettes I have at this time, lol.

Toto IV

This was one of the first ones I decided to make a pet based off of, mostly because I thought that a pet holding a sword with the four rings surrounding it would be cool...

A comparison of the album art of the Toto 4 album, featuring a sword with four golden rings on its blade, and the hexed dog based off of it, a blue-eyed red Scottie holding a sword, with the sword's blade having three rings on it and a fourth being used as a dog collar.

Tetra is a Scottie, as a kind of obvious reference to the dog Toto from The Wizard of Oz, though the band doesn't always agree that that's where their name comes from. Funnily enough, one of Toto-the-band's tours is called "Dogz of Oz"! Tetra uses Tuna@Nautilus' "orchard" palette for his red fur, and another of Queenie@Phantasmagoria's Fantabby textures ("fantab18") for the rings and sword hilt.

Origins

I didn't really listen to Imagine Dragons when Origins came out, but I've always thought the album art was cool, so there.

A comparison of the album art of the Origins album, featuring a man walking among an overgrown city with a ring of white light behind him, and the hexed dog based off of it, a tan Poodle with green, moss-like fur and a pink water lily as a tail puff.

Ginni is a Poodle because I thought the distinct separation of fur and skin on a (first-gen) Poodle would be an interesting way to represent the overgrown city's concrete and plants! She also of course has a halo to represent the circle of light on the album cover. She uses Kathy@Tabbloza's "cottagecore" palette for those nice leafy greens and the reddish-pink of her water lily tail!

Everywhere at the End of Time, Stage 4

For our last pet, having listened to all six hours of The Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time several times, I decided to create a pet based off of specifically the Stage 4's cover, also known as Ivan Seal's painting Giltsholder.

A comparison of the album art of the Everywhere at the End of Time Stage 4 album, featuring a blocky bust of a woman facing away covered in blue and green patches, and the hexed cat based off of it, a grey, chunky cat with a variety of blue, brown, and yellow splotches.

Gil matches the aesthetic of the album art through being grey, blocky, but covered in colourful patches. She doesn't have eyes, just like the bust in the painting, and her nose is more squared than a typical cat in Petz. She uses Mazzew@Mazzlabs' "groovy70s" palette for the ideal teal.

The Stamps

As with the Bejeweled dogz, I've decided to make stamps featuring each pet against their album cover! Feel free to take some if you want.

Stamp of Signal, the Dalmatian with fire hydrant collar mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Signals album art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Restless!' at the bottom. The stamp is green, with blue and red text.  Stamp of Higher, the cat with symbols around his head mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Higher Power single art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Electric!' at the bottom. The stamp is blue, with blue and pink text.  Stamp of Macy, the Siamese with a space patterned face mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Pharmacy album art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Fly!' at the bottom. The stamp is pink, with blue and grey text.  Stamp of Worlds, the Dachshund with a purple hand head mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Worlds album art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Surround!' at the bottom. The stamp is light blue, with blue and purple text.  Stamp of Moon, the Maine Coon with a prism head mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Dark Side of the Moon album art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Waiting!' at the bottom. The stamp is black, with blue and orange text.  Stamp of Tetra, the Scottie holding a sword mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Toto IV album art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Blessed!' at the bottom. The stamp is red, with blue and teal text.  Stamp of Ginni, the Poodle with leafy fur mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Origins album art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Natural!' at the bottom. The stamp is tan, with blue and green text.  Stamp of Gil, the grey cat with coloured patches mentioned earlier, standing against a background of the Everywhere at the End of Time Stage 4 album art. The text reads 'Hydrargyry Kennelz' at the top and 'Everywhere!' at the bottom. The stamp is tan, with blue and yellow text.

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