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

Re: Aww ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I kinda wish I'd done more with the wheel, honestly; maybe I'll figure out something for Rattober! <<

I thought a rat sleeping on a wheel rather than running was hilarious.


>> Urgh, I want to do a pigeon mood theme so much! They're so pretty and sweet and misunderstood! I just need to figure out where I can learn some more basic pigeon body language, so I can have a similar mix to the rat mood theme... <<

Pigeon body language video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf2yc77bcO0

Pigeon Behavior:
https://dtermination.com/pigeon-behavior-and-characteristics/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00063655609475836

General bird body language:
https://mickaboo.org/resources/reading-bird-body-language

https://be.chewy.com/bird-body-language-101/

https://www.wettropics.gov.au/site/user-assets/docs/65BirdBodyLanguage.pdf


Types of Pigeons:
(This is important because they not only have different colors and shapes, but also some breeds have very distinctive behaviors, many of which would be fun to draw and/or animate.)

https://www.pigeonrescue.org/resources/types-of-pigeons/

https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/poultry-101/pigeon-types-rollers-to-racers/


Pigeon Infographics:

https://cbx-prod.b-cdn.net/COLOURBOX23088940.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/85/d2/48/85d24876703c4d0a6fa7695696e7318c.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/9e/5e/109e5ebcc7855eb083ea928f52eff0f8.jpg

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64bb3525e7145731da6290e4/34346761-41b1-4a55-9b49-afeb9c22f128/InfoGraphic_Copyright.jpg

https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IncrediblePigeons_3-01.png

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthis-infographic-makes-me-want-to-have-an-army-of-pigeons-v0-ddockusvok091.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D94cef0d11c7ca3c00116f5420cfa12df6eaed6f3


Pigeon Book Lists:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/pigeon

https://bookroo.com/explore/books/topics/pigeons

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/11/03/pigeon-booklist

https://www.buteobooks.com/searchResults.php?action=browse&category_id=297


Also, I have flying rats (a mad science cross of rats with pigeons and parrots) in Polychrome Heroics; see "Exist Without Permission."