What is your least favorite base/markings?

I found Khaki looks bad with dark markings. There are certain bases I don't like as much like Khaki or any "greenish" bases but a lot of the look depends on the color of markings. Khaki with black marks tend to be ugly but one with cream marks looks fine.

I dislike many of the colourful unnatural bases, especially the green ones alas.

Also often find merle patches unattractive, especially brown merle patches as it makes the wolf look 'dirty'. 

Yeah, I’m not a fan of any of the green bases or markings either. 

I also don’t understand the appeal of merle, the only time it looks kinda nice is white merle against a dark-ish gradient base (like grulla) with no other markings - but even then it’s still a bit meh. 

I seem to see a pattern of the greens with everyone. The more people that seem to dislike the green the more I find I like them. I even started a project for them. I want to get the "uglist" Khakis I can get out of all of this project and try to get a line into the top 10 on the leader board this is going to be interesting. 

All markings and bases can look good if done right. So I don’t really have a least favourite base. 

But merle has to be my least favourite marking. I don’t hate merle, it can look good. But they’re very overrated which caused them to be my least favourite marking. 

Calcite and a lot of green,gold and red bases and for markings I haate Merle 

I really don't like red markings or merle. The shade of red used just seems too bright for me and merle is just too busy, especially at higher opacities. I think I have seen a single merle wolf I have liked and it was a subtle one. I haven't looked at the bases enough to have many opinions on the ones I dislike there.

@Ashburr: You sound like you like Khaki wolves the same way I love to collect ugly Christmas sweaters. I was even thinking of making myself one of those Bucilla kit sweaters just so I could win all the ugly for Christmas!

I really dislike white as a base. It's just so bland. There's a lot of really pretty off-whites that are just barely different from white but make such a big difference. I also just can't stand snow. I've never seen a good use of snow as a base.

I also don't really like merle. I ADORE merle in dogs in real life but here it just doesn't really work for me. I think it looks more like paint splashed onto the wolf than actual merle. Especially on the face. But it can be ok on a low slot with lower opacity and it blends in with other markings. But it's hard to pull off

I'm really not a fan of the "stripe" markings - belly stripe, back stripe, rump stripe, etc. - which give sharp, distinct lines and in my opinion can tend to make a wolf look a bit jagged and sort of... edgelord. Speaking of edges, the "edge patch" markings have the same effect, as do the "nose bridge" markings.

I'm also not a fan of the merle markings, as they can make a wolf look very muddy, and I in particular dislike how merle patches gives a wolf spectacles.

As for bases, there are basically two "classes" I'm not keen on -

• Bases with too much going on. This includes glaucous (sorry, my lead, I still love you though), howlite, calcite, diorite, grulla, jacinthe, melchior, mojave, tumbleweed, nepheline, snow, striped flint, teardrop, titanium and piasa. Many of these bases are beautiful by themselves, but it's almost like they have built-in markings that make them harder to work with.
• Bases that just have ugly colours (imo), this includes honey, khaki, amber, mojave, oroide, serpentine, and sepia
• Bases that just have something off about them, idk. This includes mojave, tombac and serpentine.

Any of these markings and bases can look lovely in the right combinations, of course!