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Thank you~ ♥♥♥

Hopeful: This took me a while to come up with! How exactly do you conceptualize hope for a rat, and in 100x100 pixels at that? But I like where I ended up. To be completely biologically accurate, the rat probably can't actually see the shooting star, but I'm going to make up for it by being completely biologically inaccurate and say that she can probably smell and/or hear it instead 😉 I also really like the extra spot on her butt! I like making sure that the rat color patterns are as irregular in the art as they tend to be in real life.

Recumbent: Tiny gripe with... honestly, probably Mark from when LJ was getting started, but how is Recumbent a mood? Still, it gave me an excuse to draw this little fellow, which I am grateful (heh) for. This pattern is called variegated ~~like the yarn~~, and he closely resembles one of my second pair of rats. It's a very pretty pattern overall, IMO, like an attempt at a binary color gradient. It's a little tough to find exactly the right pose to show off the variegated color variation, but having a rat pose that's entirely in profile fit the bill. And you're spot-on about it looking very relaxed! Like a lot of other animals, and especially prey animals, rats show their tummies like this to people they trust.