I hate to be a dissenting opinion, but I love the shading on the sketch. The color is supposed to turn your pet into a living sketch, and living sketches would have shadows and such, I'd expect.
It may also be I am not horridly fond of most sketch pets, and that I think that one looks stellar *shrug*
You just go to your quickref page and at the bottom there is a button that says "make customizable". Click on it.
The more I play around with it, the more I see how much it's lacking for owners of redraw pets. Personally the only pet of mine I even like a little bit is the faerie draik (wearing all the royalgirl's jewelry, looks nice) but she doesn't even have any eyes yet. Mutant draik is ONLY a tail and eyes right now-- no body, and no clothes either.
Grey pets on the whole suffer horribly (grey gelert and grey ixi are equally sacrilegious and don't look good in any clothes). Darigan hissi and ixi look pretty bad as well. Colorfills are all right. Lutaris look yucky as anyone can see. And they totally butchered the baby jubjub, looks very blah compared to the real thing.
That's like ONE pet improved by clothes out of like 11. Not good odds. And even then the improvement is minimal, probably not something I would even keep. Seems like a lot of effort to me for something that isn't really that great.
I will see how it is implemented though. This is a beta version after all, a lot of the features aren't working yet.
Oh just noticed that there ARE tattoos (put a skull and crossbones on my snow xwee). That's kinda cool. I like that. Okay, guess I'm not ready to slam this whole clothing thing all together. Wait and see.
Ooooh. I see now. I had assumed people were just using some special link. Heh.
Well... the program seems a bit unwieldy to me, and a little slow. But it's fun to play with, I suppose. I'm not super jacked up about it, more like indifferent as for now.
Wow, it took me a whole 10 minutes of playing with this to realise that it does zip all for my pets. I was more excited by the new art on old pets than the the actual dress-up facility.
I quite like giving Gwynella the peophin a nice pirate hat, but knowing her she'd only lose it. At the moment, it's nice to have my plain red shoyru dressed as a royal until I can afford the brush, but that's going to last exactly as long as the beta test, and then she's back to plainsville.
Yay, this is fun. I've customised all of my Neopets except for my baby Zafara, because they currently have no eyes and look creepy. 0_o I got items and backgrounds for all the pets on my main account, I haven't checked my sides yet. I especially like the Eyries, they look great.
I hope that if/when this comes out there are more items, some species (Bori for example) are a bit lacking now.