I think dogs are kinda my favorite animal. Like they were my inspiration for drawing and were/are a constant source for emotional... wellness? They just help me go through crap and bad feelings. Hard not to love something after that.
So I've been trying to make a dogsona for while, at first I went with a whippet for body type(skinny and short) but the face didn't work so I mixed it with shetland sheepdog. They are my favorite breed. But it wasn't quite working so I scrapped the idea.
Until this miniature pinscher popped into my head. It has the right build and face. I also have germanic roots, like my family has a coat of arms apparently and our surname is derived from a province(?) in germany. All the men of the family are taller and bigger than me and do manly man things and I'm just little and scrawny, drawing and writing all day. So I do feel like how those min pins probably do when you see pictures of them with doberman pinschers. It doesn't hurt my self esteem or whatever, because I have plenty of good qualities they don't but I always have to look up at them and have my hand swallowed by theirs during a hand shake eheh.
Not sure about the colors, and I may still mix in a breed. I kinda want to reference my mom's side to, I look more like her.