Rat Mood Dump

[soc_puppet]

A whopping twelve rat moods!

I'm also planning to make a pinned post with both A) All of the image links for anyone who needs to block them, and B) All of the images themselves, so I can look at them to cheer myself up. "Look at how cute they are!" I will say to myself. "Look at these cute things I made to make myself happy, and other people also like them! What a good thing doing art is."

Anyway, on to the rats!

These are a bit jumbled; I took six weeks' worth of moods from around Part Four of moodthemeinayear's schedule to work ahead on, since those are the moods that will roughly overlap with summerofthe69. I still have some left to go, especially since I discovered an oopsie from that time period, but once those are done, I'll probably move onto the next part that overlaps with Sot69.

Here's what I have finished from Part Four(ish) so far:

Complacent, Hopeful, High


Mellow, Indifferent, Loved


Grateful, Full, Relieved


Good, Recumbent, Jubilant


I've got thoughts on most of these, so feel free to point one out and I'll share!

Comments

[soc_puppet]

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.

[redsixwing]

She knows that star is up there <3 What else is the essence of hope!

Awwwww, it's so cool that rat is close to one of yours.

...and now I have to go scratch my cat right this minute.

[soc_puppet]

Well put 🐭💗

The same rat ended up partly inspiring the upcoming image for Optimistic! That was a hard one to come up with, let me tell you 😂 I'll have to see if I can dig up a photo of the behavior it's based on. (Once the mood is finished, of course.)

I approve of the cat skritching plan 👍 Please give extra skritches for me!

[redsixwing]

Cat scritched!