Hi...I'm fairly new here and I'm going to start my first breeding project.
They're supposed to look like this:

But all I have right now is this:


Any tips, anyone? And what should I call them? Also, how can you get Lup essences? I'm super low on gold and everything on the trade broker is super expensive. This is confusing...

Essences are normaly rare drops, tho you have a chance to get some rendom ones from the curent event. Outside of buying them you can get them from satchels, as drop while fighting/nurrituring or in the jinxi jamboree. Usualy lupora essences are not overly pricy, around 20k a piece in the broaker but due to you using white coloration you may nead to stockpile some dye to conter the color swing at the end of your project.

this guide should help you getting gold.

My advice to start any project is to only buy 3 essence, generate 1 male and 2 females, only give carried traits to get more genetic onto the offsprings faster and to keep an eye out for escaping traits, once one get out of the gene pool it become realy hard to get it back in.