Fancy Rats Part 6

[soc_puppet]

So close to the end!


Lethargic, Listless, Bored


Crappy, Crushed, Depressed


Disappointed, Envious, Pessimistic


Jealous, Lonely, Melancholy


Morose, Numb, Rejected


Cold, Dirty, Drunk


Commentary!

Well, Jealous is in conversation with Naughty, though making sure I could fit the idea into the space allotted took some wrangling.

Pessimistic is in conversation with Optimistic and Cynical; it's less sad if you imagine that the conversation goes Cynical to Pessimistic to Optimistic, with someone filling the glass with juice off-screen between the last two moods 😅

The idea with Envious is that the pigeon wants tiny hands and the rat wants wings; it makes me want to make a pigeon mood theme as a compliment to this one!

I originally sketched out Cold when my heater died in ...January? February? Very early in the year, during some ungodly cold snap.

Drunk, meanwhile, I originally drew for a fun Mardi Gras joke I made 😉 Same for at least one other rat, though I won't be officially "introducing" them until after Part 8

I think that's all my commentary for now, but if you want to know more about any of these rats, I'll be happy to keep going!

Comments

[spiralicious]

They are so cute and expressive!

Have you heard of the rattober challenge?

[soc_puppet]

Thank you ^__^

! I have not! Please tell me more; I've missed drawing ratties!

[spiralicious]

You're welcome :)

It's an Inktober alternative hosted by thebeanbaguette on Instagram. It has 31 rat prompts. Googling rattober, rattober 2024, or beansrattober should get you the prompt list. Even though it's late in the month, it's something I thought you would have fun with.

[soc_puppet]

Ooo, that sounds like fun! I'll have to look it up. Hopefully I'll be able to access the prompts without an account 😅

[spiralicious]

If the prompt list doesn't show up for you on a Google search, let me know, and I'll leave them in a comment for you, or dm if you prefer, because I saved the list.

[soc_puppet]

Found it, thank you! I had to do a bit of a workaround by screencapping it, since Instagram wouldn't let me download the image, but I now have the prompt list saved to my computer 👍

[spiralicious]

Wonderful!