4. Proportions

Your Knuffel must fill out the 300 x 377 pixel proportionally!
→The base of your Knuffel must leave a margin around all sides. It should not end right at the end of the image, but should also not leave an significant amount of space　or a significant amount of space unfilled:







Your Knuffel's base including hair (hair can go further to the sides) in the first stage should fill out about this area, not much less and not much more. The areas around the marked square should only be filled during further evolutions:





- I advice everyone against using non-chibi bases, as they will be rejected in 95% of all cases because they cannot fill out the image in proportion.

- If you need more space for things like big wings or other aspects of your Knuffel during its evolution you may use up all the space, up to the edge! However, the base=body should always leave a margin around all sides, which is neither too small nor too big (see images). This includes merging to all sides, which means your base should neither be too thin, nor too thick, nor too short or too long.

I do believe that I explained it very detailed, but since people still seem to have problems understanding it maybe this will help:









The last 2 are pushing the rules already very far and are not how I would like Knuffel to be proportioned in the image, but I would most likely turn a blind eye to it and still accept them.
There is no way to agree that the first two are in proportions though, even if I turn two blind eyes on it.



I also have a question: I really thought that the text on the first page was really clear on this and especially the images I put up there made it absolutely clear that Knuffel as these would not be accepted.
However, you did not seem to understand it and many other users also don't.
Do you have any tips for me to make it more understandable? Like, what kind of text or images would you have needed there to understand what I tried to explain to you? Or is it maybe still not understandable?
I really do not know how to explain it better with words and illustrations than I already did.