Snow would've done nice with atleast a few leafy decorations. Like the kougra tail decoration, or something of the sort. White and black aren't so exciting-
Gold is very yellow, yet there aren't any shiny spots. And no lowlights. Like carved butter, like TCStarwind said.
I thought the snow was just a normal white colour. Then I realized it was snow. Does look rather plain. They could have been more creative with it. The gold also looks very plain. It could even pass for a normal yellow coloured lupe. I used to be a lupe fan, but np is obviously not putting much effort into them.
What I am wondering the most though is why np's style isn't consistent. On one side they have like all these amazing images (probably done by the same artist), then on the other are flat, not as good images... (I mean compared to how the Relic and Ice Cybunnies [and any other colour made in that nice colouring way] were made, this is a huge disappointment...)
These two are some of the laziest colours I have seen. Gold is not even shiny, its just yellow. Snow is very plain too. I think neopets needs some more creative pet designers.
Snow has lines that looked like the pet was originally going to be sketch. The lupe itself is very uncreative and uninspiring. If they had given the lupe a scarf or something, I would be more pleased.
Gold looks like the following conversation took place.
"Hey Mik."
"What?"
"We need a second lupe color"
"Do I have to?"
"Yes."
"*sighs and makes the entire lupe yellow*"
"Good enough. We'll call it butter lupe."
This freaking stinks. The colors are horrible. I was wishing for relic, and this is what we got in return!?!?! A sucky lupe day. The new neopoint clothes aren't even good either.
Gold is very pretty. It's just not... gold. It doesn't look like it's made of shiny gold. But it is pretty, so if you're just interested in the colour for your pet then it's great. But if you conceptually wanted a shiny gold lupe statue, you're out of luck.
Snow is also pretty, and I like the little scruffy snow parts. But it's a shame there aren't any accessories. Admittedly, you could just stick a scarf on it. But it would be nice to get a unique one.
It's definitely not white though, but that could just be obvious to me because I have one ;0)
I actually really like the non-fussiness of these two colours. They don't follow the pattern of other pets in gold and snow, which will annoy some people (and often does annoy me) but I like the fact that gold is quite plain and not super-shiny and that snow doesn't have ugly and unnecessary bits of leaf and carrot. I can see why people think they're lazy, which is quite possibly true, but I think they're more attractive for it.
As lazy as these colours are, I still think that they are quite pretty. I agree that gold could be a bit more shiny, but I still like it. Snow would have been nice with a scarf though.