Fancy Rats Part 4

[soc_puppet]

Ack, almost missed sharing these during the relevant break!


Chipper, Ecstatic, High


Horny, Good, Grateful


Impressed, Jubilant, Loved


Hopeful, Pleased, Rejuvinated


Calm, Mellow, Peaceful


Recumbent, Complacent, Indifferent


I don't know if anyone remembers Uncomfortable, but it turns out that Hopeful is actually sitting on another rat there 😉

Also, tremendous thanks to my sister-in-law for her suggestion for Chipper! I was this close to having a rat sticking out of a Pringles tube instead, but I like this better.

Finally, Thankful is a nod to a drawing I did of one of my first pet rats. The rat in question was a gray hooded dumbo rather than a top-ear pointed, but I remembered a sketch I did of him holding a piece of celery, and that ultimately inspired this one.

If you have any questions about any of these, please feel free to ask! I love talking about these rat moods, and will take any excuse to go on and on about them.

Comments

[meridian_rose]

Aww so cute! I love high, so happy! And grateful/thankful and so sweet that it's a nod to one of your rats. Impressed has every right to be impressed with that strawberry :) Jubilant captures the mood perfectly!
Love the night sky shooting star for hopeful, and rejuvenated a vey different look that works well.
Mellow rat is chilling in hammock, nice, and I love that recumbent and complacent are almost mirrors of each other one facing up the other down.
also chipper is a fun pun, good idea from sis-in-law!

[soc_puppet]

Thank you 🥰

It just seemed natural to reuse the idea for Grateful once I remembered it.

I, too, would be impressed by a strawberry that was more than half my size! (Honestly, I'd probably be pretty impressed by a strawberry that was even half the size of your average rat; male rats get to be around a pound/2.2kg, so an 8oz/1.1kg strawberry would be incredible.)

In reality, people shouldn't smoke anything around rats (their lungs are incredible delicate and sensitive), but I think tiny amounts of edibles might not be 100% terrible. Don't quote me on that, though, check with a vet first!

Hopeful probably can't technically see the shooting star (rat vision is pretty bad), so I decided that she can smell it instead 😜

Rejuvinated gave me a heck of a time! I finally started making headway when I thought about involving the dawn of a new day/a sunrise.

Rats love hammocks! They are very popular to snooze or hang out in, and especially for giant cuddle piles of "as many rats as will fit (plus one more)".

Recumbent's coloring is actually based on another one of my rats! He had a very interesting coat. Complacent, meanwhile, is the embodiment of, "Whatever, just let it happen, I guess."

SIL definitely saved the day with that one! A can of chips would have worked, but I like this one so much better.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Chipper is a hilarious pun and I love the buff rat sculpture.

Loved with the tails making almost a heart shape is cute.

I think Hopeful is the most inspiring.

Rejuvenated and Calm are very zen.

Mellow is a wonderful bit of rat body language.

The rat in the peace sign is adorable.

I just love your rats.

Re: Thoughts

[soc_puppet]

A huge, buff rat was the first idea that popped into my head for what a rat would be sculpting, and it delighted me so much that I absolutely had to do it!

Loved and others like it helped me learn that I really, really like drawing swooping, swooshy tails and stuff! (Also Tentacular helped, but that's another thing entirely.)

I almost made Calm in the classic "yoga" pose; I still have an alternate version of it saved that way, tucked away in the mood theme folder.

Mellow is one of maybe two rats I've drawn head-on! Jubilant is the other one I can think of.

Peaceful was one of the final rats I drew, because it took me so long to come up with an idea for it! I could have just done something similar to Calm or Mellow, or even used the alternate version of Calm I mentioned, but I decided in the end that it would be more fun to have Peaceful hanging out in an actual peace sign.

🥰 BTW, you're welcome to adopt any of them you like as icons, should that interest you!

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I really, really like drawing swooping, swooshy tails and stuff! <<

You are very good at that. Your little rats are so expressive with their tails and ears!

>>I decided in the end that it would be more fun to have Peaceful hanging out in an actual peace sign.<<

I agree. It makes that one stand out from other similar images.

>> BTW, you're welcome to adopt any of them you like as icons, should that interest you! <<

Thank you! I'll have to think about that, see if any of them feel like something I could use.