soc_puppet | Oops more rats

More rat moods!

Another five moods:

A sad black rat with a white chest spot Sad

A gray hooded rat is determined Determined

Red-eyed-white Dumbo rat is okay ~~Okay~~ Blank*

A cream-colored Berkshire rat is devious Devious

A red-eyed white rat is enthralled and looks like a heart Enthralled

Four more and I'll have the entire base set done!

So, the rats for Okay and Devious; what's with their ears? It's a special trait you can breed onto rats called "Dumbo ears" (you know, after the Disney elephant); rats with these ears are called Dumbo rats. Rats don't really have breeds in the same way dogs do, or even how cats do (which have breeds but they aren't genetically established well enough to track, like you can with dogs), but breed works more-or-less well enough here, I think.

I'm aiming to include a bunch of different real life color patterns and other traits; I'll likely include at least a few hairless rats as well, though I don't know exactly for which moods yet. Maybe for Cold and/or Hot? Oooo, it'd be super cute to do a naked rat wearing a sweater for Cold; I should do that!

Anyway, I've got the rest of the main fifteen more-or-less sketched out (I think), plus a couple of extras, so I might have the bare minimum done for my mood theme in as little as a few days 😂 And then: Extended break time! ...Or not 😛 I'm equally likely to try and knock out some of the moods that will overlap with summerofthe69, save myself a few headaches there. But I'm definitely going to make sure to take at least one week's break somewhere in there! Even if I spend the next two or three weeks of the regular drawing schedule skipping ahead, I'll need to take some rest for myself at some point, and I intend to do just that.

Edit: I just kept thinking that my initial design for Okay would be much better for Blank, so I decided to make a new okay (seen here) and officially make the one above Blank.