20 August 2010: Working on the page again! Added all the missing sets of clothes. Cross painted submissions are ALWAYS open :)

In the future will be adding:
o Collars and other species accessories like this
o Baby and maraquan clothes
o Perhaps may start a spare paint brush clothes page?

Welcome to Cross Painted Pets! Ever since the introduction of customisation, a whole new world pf possibilities has opened up. This is a guide which will endeavor to show you what different combinations of colours and paint brush clothes actually look like in order to assist you with your own painting choices.

What are Cross Painted Pets?

Cross Painted pets, also commonly known as Double Painted Pets or Twice Painted Pets are pets that have been painted with at least two different paint brushes and still retain the clothing of one of the colours.

How do you get a cross painted pet you ask?

1. Choose what colours you want to combine.
The first thing you should do is decide what paint brushes you actually want to combine, and this guide is here to help you! Browse around, or take a peek at pet colours and their clothes here.

Choose what 'clothes' brush you want and what final base colour you want your pet to be. Also, you don't have to stop at cross painting your pet once! You may wish you obtain a number of sets of paint brush clothes before painting your pet a final colour.

In this case we are going to start with a blue hissi.

3. Paint the final base colour.
Now you are ready to paint your pet with the final colour you want it to be, the colour that will be wearing the clothes from the previous painting! Don't worry about removing the clothes or anything, they won't disappear on you :)
Choose carefully what you want the final colour to be, but it can be absolutely anything! (Except maraquan, mutant, baby, fruit/veg) Even a colour that might give you more clothes works. When you finally paint your pet, they will then be able to wear the clothes from its first coat of paint! Taada, you are now the proud owner of a cross painted pet! Congratulations :)

Finally, we painted the hissi ghost for the final base colour. Now we have a ghost hissi that wears pirate clothes.

2. Paint your pet with a colour that gives clothes.
The second step is to paint your pet at the rainbow pool in the main shops with a colour that will give it clothes. Don't paint the final base colour first! That would be a big mistake and a waste of money.
Once painted, if you visit the customisation application, you will be able to see your brand new paint brush clothes that you have gained through painting your pet! And the best thing is, that they're yours to keep forever! Even if your pet changes species, the clothes will stay in your closet waiting to be worn again.

In this case we painted the hissi pirate, and now have the pirate clothes in the closet.

Paint Brushes That Give Clothes
Usually	Christmas	Halloween	Lost Desert	Pirate	Royal	Zombie	Usuki	Quigiki
Sometimes	Disco	Snow	Tyrannian

Where can I get paintbrushes?

There are two basic places you can get paint brushes from - the site or by purchasing from other users.

Find or win on the site

Possible prize from the alien aisha vending machine

Purchase from other users

Shop Wizard

Trading Post

Auctions

Be wary when buying paint brushes! Make sure you don't buy the plushie version of the real paint brush as it cannot be used to paint your pet.

Hidden Tower

The hidden tower is located in a secret spot in Faerieland and sells a variety of expensive artifacts, weapons and the baby, darigan or royal paint brushes. All the items are fixed in price.

The shop is always stocked, although it does close for one hour each day. The hidden tower can only be accessed if your account is four months or older.

Fruit Machine

The fruit machine is a located in the city of Sahkmet in the Lost Desert and is a daily game that gives you a chance to win a prize. The prizes vary from food to petpets to paint brushes.

If you do happen to win the penultimate prize, you will win 15,000 neopoints, a random battle muffin and a random paint brush. The biggest prize also gives a random paint brush in addition to a 3 random faeries, a random amount of nps and a stat increase in your pet's strength and level.

Keyquest

Keyquest is a multiplayer board game which allows you to win keys, that may then be redeemed for random prizes.

If you win a gold key, you have a chance to win a biscuit, camouflage, cloud, ghost, glowing, snow, speckled, starry, striped or tyrannian paint brush.

Jacko the Phantom Painter

Jacko the Phantom Painter may appear to you in a rare random event and give you a random paint brush.

Art Gallery, Poetry and Storytelling contests

The Art Gallery. Submit your neopets-related fan art and you may have your picture displayed. If you win, you receive a trophy, 10,000nps and a random item. You have a better chance if you submit an image relating to an upcoming theme day.

The Story Telling contest. Each week there is a new story. Different users submit their version of what happens next. If you win, you receive a trophy, 2,000nps and a random item.

The Poetry contest. Submit your poetry and you may have have it published on the site. If you win, you receive a trophy, 1000nps and a random item.

The prize lists for all three contests contain paint brushes amongst other items, and to my knowledge almost every type is given out - including pirate, maraquan and so on. The only exception perhaps being royal and baby.

World Challenges

World Challenges are hourly game competitions that pit you against against random users. There are a number of different games you can play to test your skills in against other users and you can send a score as many times as you like (but you can only receive neopoints for three games).

If you win a World Challenge hourly comp, you are awarded with a random piece of a WC map. If you complete an entire map you are awarded with a RANDOM prize that may be a random paint brush.

You can win a WC challenge in one of three ways:

Have the highest tally at the end of the hour, or;

Have the highest score at the end of the hour, or;

Have the highest total scores at the end of the hour

To win, you must have a tally of at least 0 in order to be eligible.

You may also want to consider morphing potions. Sometimes the morphing potion is cheaper that the paint brush.

Comparitive Prices

Pirate Chomby Morphing Potion

Four million neopoints

Pirate Paint Brush

Nine million neopoints

How to get a magma pet

If you visit the Magma Pool in the Moltara Caves, you may be able to transform your pet into Magma.

There are two main methods:

1. Refresh at the pool until the guard falls asleep. You will then be able to sneak past him and transform one of your pets into magma. It does not have to be your active pet, you may choose who to transform. It appears to be random for each user when the guard falls asleep - there are no set sleeping times.

Shhh... look! The guard is sleeping. Maybe you can sneak by him if you're very, very careful... Please select your Neopet to take a swim in the Magma Pool and be painted Magma

2. Be accepted into the pool. If the guard deems you worthy, he will accept you into the pool without the need to refresh. The requirements are as of yet unknown, but may be linked to finding the worms or building the moltaran petpets. Once you are accepted, you can visit the pool each week and it will always be open to you - so basically, once you fulfill the hidden requirements (if there are any), you have permanent access.

Welcome to Moltara's Magma Pool! You must be a true master in the ways of Moltara. One of your Neopets may have a dip in the Magma Pool.

If you are successful, you will have a brand new magma pet! Once painted, if you want another magma pet, you will have to wait a week until you can visit the pool again.

You can also get a magma pet through a lab ray zap.

I do not know if it is a ffq colour or not at the moment, sorry.

You can use the pool on side accounts as there is no monetary gain.

Accounts under 4 months of age cannot receive magma pets through transfer, but they are creatable.

Beware! If you pound a magma pet, it will turn red. However, you can successfully transfer a Magma pet from one account to another via transfers.

Frequently Asked Questions!

Will my paint brush clothes disappear if my pet changes species?
Once you have recieved a set of Paint Brush clothes, they are yours forever to keep! This includes clothes gained through the lab ray and morphing potions.
Even if your pet changes species, the clothes will stay in your closet until you can use them again!

If I have two pets of the same species, can I put say my desert kougra's clothes on my royal kougra?
If you have more than one pet of the same species, they can swap and mix n match clothes to your heart's content! But there are no doubles of the same item unless you paint a second pet the same colour.

Could I combine pieces from the outfits of two different paint brushes? like, say, the vest and pants from the royal boy draik with the jewelry from the desert draik?
Yup! This is entirely possible as long as the zones of the different clothes don't clash! This is what is termed as triple or even quadruple painting a pet - that is a pet has clothes from more than one paint brush. You can come up with some pretty nifty combos this way :)

Could I put, say my desert scorchio's clothes on a lupe?
Paint brush clothes are species specific- If you have a Desert Scorchio, only other scorchios will be able to wear those clothes.

Why can't my unconverted grey pteri wear clothes?! What happens if I repaint it?
Unconverted pets cannot wear clothes other than backgrounds or trinkets.
If you repainted an unconverted pet, they will turn into a new look pet.

I tried putting clothes on my pet, but it doesn't work! Why can't my pet wear clothes?!
If your pet is unconverted, maraquan, mutant, baby or a fruit/vegetable pet, then unfortunately it cannot wear clothes other than backgrounds or trinkets, with the notable exception of a maraquan mynci.
However, TNT have stated in an editorial that they plan on making clothes specifically for these colours, so rejoice! Your pets time will come :3

awwwwww.

Can I paint a pet royal (pirate, island...) and sell the clothes or just buy them from someone else instead of painting?
Nope, unfortunately clothes that come from paint brushes cannot be sold, traded or put in your gallery. They have to remain in your closet :/

Can I paint a pet baby, then rainbow, and have a rainbow baby?
Nope! Any paint job completely cancels out a previous paint job. Cross painting refers only to the clothes that are obtained from a previous paint job. No physical qualities from the pet's last paint job will remain, just the clothes!

Are wings wearable items? If I had a faerie lupe and painted it something else, would I still be able to put the wings on?
Yes and no! The wings that are part of a neopet like in faerie and darigan pets, are a natural extension of their body and so cannot be carried through to a second paint job :(
However, in some paint brushes, the wings are part of a costume and yes, will stay on after a second paint job! The only pet that has this is christmas zafara.

Royal Dilemas!

There has been some confusion regarding Royal pets and their ability to be able to wear the other genders clothes. Some people have said that a royal boy can't wear a royal girls clothes. Well I'm sure everyone will be happy to know that in fact, a royal pet can wear whatever it wants, including the opposite genders clothes if they really wish to! But of course, your pet may feel a little silly if you do force them to do so =D

Royals and the lab ray

If I lab zap a Royal Boy, and it changes gender, will I get Royal Girl clothes?
Someone has confirmed, that yes, you will indeed get the second set of royal clothes, but your pet will also take on the new gender's appearance.

Example: If you have Royal Boy eyrie (blue fur), and you zap it at the lab ray and he changes gender, then you will have a full Royal Girl eyrie (purple fur) with the Royal Girl set of clothes. You will get to keep BOTH sets of clothes.

And no, you don't need to remove your pets current clothes before zapping, they won't disappear on you. But if it makes you feel better, go ahead :D

I received a very interesting mail from someone, regarding clothes and the lab ray. It was as follows:

I recently got a Quiguki boy quiggle from the pound (hence had no clothes), and zapped him. He changed gender, and he had gotten the female hair and skirt (clothing). Then, I zapped him again, he changed gender to male, and now he has his Quiguki boy clothing as well."

So there you go. Interesting eh? Turns out it works for usukis too!

It does NOT work for the other paint brush clothed pets such as desert, island halloween and so on, even if they are unclothed.

Example:So if you have an unclothed desert pteri, you zap it at the lab ray and get a gender change, you will NOT regain the lost desert clothes.

What happens if you fight the lab ray scientist and get a gender change?
Unfortunately, obtaining the opposite gender's appearance and clothes only works with the lab ray. Battling the lab ray scientist or using a strange potion won't work - You will not obtain any clothes, and your pet will look the same as before, except it will have the opposite gender's eyes.

Example: So if you had a Royal Boy poogle, and battled the lab ray scientist and got a gender change, you would then have a Royal Boy poogle that looks exactly the same as before, except is technically labeled 'female' on your lookup and pet lookup, but with lovely new eyelashes. But no new clothes! /I think/ same goes for use of a strange potion to change gender - no new clothes!

To reiterate because it seems I have been unclear to some people:

If you ZAP a royal, usuki or quigiki and get a gender change, you will gain the opposite gender's clothes and appearance (and will get to keep the old gender's clothes too, so that means two sets of clothes!).
If you BATTLE the lab ray scientist or use a STRANGE POTION, nothing will change in appearance except for having the other gender's EYES and the pet will merely be LABELED as the other gender. No new clothes will be gained this way!

Fighting the scientist - gender change screenie

Click and drag to the url bar for full size!

The Pound and clothes

Pounding

If you pound a pet and it is wearing ANY clothes, be it neopoint, paint brush or NC mall clothes, it will be automatically be taken off and put back in your closet. So, if you're pound surfing, don't expect to find any pets wearing clothes xD

Awww so I found a Lost Desert Peophin in the pound and it doesn't have any clothes! Is there any way I can get its clothes back?

There is actually! There are quite a few nice Neopians who give away their extra paint brush clothes they have from the lab ray, so feel free to check them out!

Transferring

If you transfer a pet, any neopoint clothes it is wearing at the time will go to the new owner. Don't bother trying to send NC mall clothes to a new owner this way though, any NC mall clothes will be taken off and put back in your closet :3

If a pet has paint brush clothes (not from cross painting though), so say a royal pet, regardless of whether or not it is wearing those clothes at the time, when transferred those royal clothes will be dragged out of the closet and go with the pet. Meaning, the only way to keep paint brush clothes on an account without the pet would be to pound the pet or repaint the pet.

So then if you have say, a royal pet, and it has its paint brush clothes, if its wearing them and you transfer, then yes, the clothes will go with it.

However, if you have a cross painted pet, so say a ROYAL pet wearing desert clothes, if you try to transfer, those paint brush clothes not belonging to the pets current colour will be left behind. So using the prior example, the desert clothes that the royal pet was wearing would not go to the new owner, but the ROYAL clothes would be 'dragged out' and would go with the pet.

Gender Switched Royals
Now gender switched royals is another fun matter to consider. I'm working off memory of what I've seen on the boards, so I will need to confirm this.

If you have a ROYAL BOY eyrie and you happen to have both sets of royal clothes (male and female), but it has had its gender changed to female via lab scientist or strange potion (ie. It still looks male but is labelled 'female' and has eyelashes) ........ then which set of royal clothes will go when the pet is transferred?

The answer is the royal boy clothes. Even though the Royal Boy eyrie is labelled as a female, its appearance is of a royal boy, and the royal boy clothes will be the only ones to transfer. (I think! I'm about 90% sure.)

KEY POINTS

When a pet is pounded, all its clothes are removed and put in your closet.
Only the paint brush clothes belonging to the pets colour will be able to be moved in a transfer. Eg. Desert clothes will only move with a desert pet.
Clothes from a cross painting cannot be moved, so make sure when you cross paint, that account is going to be your pets final home!
Clothes belonging to a pet will 'stick' to a pet when transferred.
You can't move NC clothes via transfer.
In the case of gender switched royals, so example: a Royal Boy eyrie that looks royal boy but is labeled female, only the royal boy clothes will transfer. So basically, the base colour of a pet determines what clothes will go with it.

Unconverted Pets

Unconverted

Converted

What is an unconverted pet?
In April 2007, the site underwent a major overhaul of art and layout. All pets were redrawn to enable customisation, and the majority of pets were automatically converted to the redrawn versions.

However, there were some pets that TNT felt were too drastic a change, so they allowed their owners the option of leaving their pets unconverted.

The pets that were left with this option were ALL grey, darigan, plushie, usuiki, quigiki pets, and mallow grundos and coco jubjubs.
SOME faerie, royal, mutant, halloween, desert, maraquan, tyrannian, robot, ice, sponge and baby pets were also given this option.
Notably, NO pirate or island pets were given this option.

Can unconverted pets wear clothes?
Unconverted pets CANNOT wear all clothes. They are limited to backgrounds, trinkets, garlands and lower foreground items.

How can I get an unconverted pet?
Unconverted pets are prized as they are no longer available to create. There is no item or event that allows you to create an unconverted pet. The ONLY way to get one now is to trade or adopt one from another owner.

How do I know if I have an unconverted pet?
You go to your pets quick reference, and check if there are any notices that say as much. I've provided a screenie of what it looks like:

Can I repaint an unconverted pet and get a different unconverted?
NO. As soon as you repaint, morph or zap an unconverted pet into a different colour or species, it will be converted into the new art.

How do I convert an unconverted pet?
See the image I posted above? You go to your pet's quick reference and click the notice. Then you will be given the option to convert.

What happens if I try to change the gender of an unconverted pet?
-Sheepish grin- I don't actually know at the moment, sorry! I'm going to have to research this one so I can tell you guys with absolute certainty.

Once you convert an unconverted pet, you cannot return it to the old art! So if you really want to convert one for the sake of being able to dress it up, think carefully!

Pricing Guide

So you want a pet cross painted, but its probably gonna be expensive right? Well at the very least I can give you an easy list of the approximate prices of all the paint brushes, so you don't have to run around the trading post trying to figure out what's what. To figure out how much the paint job is going to cost you just add up the prices of your clothes-giving brush, and the base colour brush. Click on any brush name to have it take you to either the shop wiz or trading post. Easy as pie ;)

Biscuit Paint Brush	42, 000 neopoints.
Blue Paint Brush	95, 000 neopoints.
Brown Paint Brush	600, 000 neopoints.
Camouflage Paint Brush	80, 000 neopoints.
Checkered Paint Brush	200, 000 neopoints.
Christmas Paint Brush	35, 000 neopoints.
Cloud Paint Brush	40, 000 neopoints.
Darigan Paint Brush	1.4 mill neopoints.
Disco Fever Paint Brush	500, 000 neopoints.
Electric Blue Paint Brush	400, 000 neopoints.
Faerie Paint Brush	3.4 mill neopoints.
Fire, Fire, Your Pants On Fire Paint Brush	1.2 mill neopoints.
Ghost Paint Brush	99, 000 neopoints.
Glowing Paint Brush	40, 000 neopoints.
Golden Paint Brush	300, 000 neopoints.
Green Paint Brush	70, 000 neopoints.
Grey Paint Brush	4 mill neopoints.
Halloween Paint Brush	1.8 mill neopoints.
Invisible Paint Brush	90, 000 neopoints.
Lost Desert Paint Brush	2.5 mill neopoints.
Mystery Island Paint Brush	4.7 mill neopoints.
Orange Paint Brush	700, 000 neopoints.
Pink Paint Brush	3 mill neopoints.
Pirate Paint Brush	9 mill neopoints.
Plushie Paint Brush	7 mill neopoints.
Purple Paint Brush	400, 000 neopoints.
Rainbow Paint Brush	500, 000 neopoints.
Red Paint Brush	75, 000 neopoints.
Royal Paint Brush	1.75 mill neopoints.
Shadow Paint Brush	600, 000 neopoints.
Silver Paint Brush	150, 000 neopoints.
Scritchy Sketchy Paint Brush	90, 000 neopoints.
Skunk Paint Brush	420, 000 neopoints.
Snow Paint Brush	80, 000 neopoints.
Speckled Paint Brush	40, 000 neopoints.
Split Paint Brush	130, 000 neopoints.
Spotted Paint Brush	900, 000 neopoints.
Starry Paint Brush	80, 000 neopoints.
Strawberry Fields Forever Paint Brush	400, 000 neopoints.
Striped Paint Brush	95, 000 neopoints.
Tyrannian Paint Brush	150, 000 neopoints.
Usuki Paint Brush	1.5 mill neopoints.
White Paint Brush	600, 000 neopoints.
Yellow Paint Brush	70,000 neopoints.
Zombie Paint Brush	6 mill neopoints.

Updated Price Guide:

Wanna submit an image?

If you want to help out and submit an image, follow these steps:

Remove your pet's background
Make sure it is only wearing ONE paint brush outfit and it is COMPLETE.
Go to your lookup and:
Firefox- Right click the image, select "Properties" then copy the url next to "location"
Internet Explorer- Right click the image, select "Properties" then copy the url next to "Address"
Mail me with the image URL here
OR
Use the "Send a photo" feature that can be found in your pets quick ref in the little drop down menu, shortcut link here.

Page Instructions

To view the Cross Painted Images, you can view them in one of two ways.

1. Visit the Comparative version of the page. All the images there are high quality and have transparent backgrounds should you require them. However it is also slow loading.
2. View the image on this page. Here the images are very low quality with backgrounds for faster loading. Should you wish to view them, simply do the following:

Firefox: Click and drag the image to the url bar.
OR
Right click and select 'VIEW IMAGE'.

Internet Explorer: Click and drag the image to your tab rather than the url bar.

Navigation

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Acara

Christmas

Name: Christmas Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 75,000 neopoints.


Christmas Acara Hat	Christmas Acara Coat

Click here to see this pet without its clothes

Mystery Island

Name: Mystery Island Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 3.8 mill.


Mystery Island Acara Earrings	Mystery Island Acara Horn Rings	Mystery Island Acara Lei

Click here to see this pet without its clothes

Halloween

Name: Halloween Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 1.1 mill.


Halloween Acara Costume	Halloween Acara Hat

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Pirate

Name: Pirate Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 7.5 mill.


Pirate Acara Earrings	Pirate Acara Eye Patch	Pirate Acara Horn Covering	Pirate Acara Shirt

Click here to see this pet without its clothes

Robot

Lab Ray Only


Robot Acara Body Housing	Robot Acara Chest Housing	Robot Acara Cranium Housing

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Royal Boy

Name: Royal Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 1.75 mill.


Royal Boy Acara Crown	Royal Boy Acara Necklace	Royal Boy Acara Robe	Royal Boy Acara Shirt

Click here to see this pet without its clothes

Click here to see this pet unconverted

Royal Girl

Name: Royal Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 1.75 mill.


Royal Girl Acara Gown	Royal Girl Acara Hat

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Snow

Name: Snow Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 600,000.

Snow Acara
Scarf

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Zombie

Name: Zombie Paint Brush

Approximate Price: 4.5 mill.


Zombie Acara Shirt	Zombie Acara Trousers

Click here to see this pet without its clothes

Aisha