Fancy Rats Part 1

[soc_puppet]

I've been looking forward to sharing these all at once! 😁

Angry, Awake, Confused


Determined, Devious, Energetic


Enthralled, Happy, Indescribable


Nerdy, Okay, Sad


Scared, Thoughtful, Working


I re-did Confused after my first attempt, and I may go through and re-do a couple of others, but overall I'm very happy with how these have turned out!

Comments

[feathered_dreams]

These are so adorable! I love them!

[soc_puppet]

Thank you 😊 I'm officially using the mood theme over on my own journal now!

[spiralicious]

They are so cute!

[soc_puppet]

Thank you! 🥰 I feel like cute is one of my specialties 😁

[meridian_rose]

These are adorable! I've had pet rats in the past ♥
Confused and Scared stand out to me, really obvious, for want of a better word, in what they're describing and so well drawn. Nerdy looks rather cool to me (putting on/taking off glasses possibly with a CSI:Miami/the Who yeaaahhhhh) - and that is 100% fine because who on Dreamwidth isn't a bit nerdy and therefore part of the cool kids here :D

[soc_puppet]

Thank you! I had pet rats myself for a number of years, and they were just so charming and had such big personalities! They definitely inspired me to make this mood theme.

😊 Confused and Scared were two of the first moods I drew. Some moods are easier to come up with visuals for than others, and those two practically jumped into my mind gift-wrapped 😂 Also, go Team Nerd! They/we get stuff done!

[redsixwing]

They're so totally cute! I love the meme-y "Energetic" ping-ponging around the image box and the orbular Indescribable.

Working is also extremely good. It took me a moment to spot the yellow pencil (my theme has a cream background for ease of reading) and so I thought the rat might be nibbling on the paper pad.

[soc_puppet]

Hehehe 😁 Energetic took me a good bit to figure out, but once I thought of a rat "bouncing off the walls", so to speak, it seemed like the right way to go. Like rabbits and guinea pigs, rats will sometimes "popcorn" (do little jumps in a small area) to show excitement, but I thought that might fit better for the future "Bouncy"... provided I can figure out how to make that image work 😂

Rats are just so adorable when they curl up into a ball to sleep! That's mostly what inspired Indescribable here, especially with such a prompt to work with 😂 When rats have a darker color that reaches all the way down their back, it does frequently extend part-way down their tails as well. It's pretty cool, but I've been having trouble remembering to include it 😅

Oh! Working is supposed to be nibbling on a paper pad, actually; the little extended bit it a piece of the paper that the rat has nibbled off and is curling up. Pretty sure it's something I actually saw in a video of a bird nibbling a strip off of a piece of paper or cardboard, but the visual stuck with me. Working is one of the ones I'm considering re-doing (the ears are bugging me, as is the tail just a bit), so that might be something I tweak in the future. Not sure whether I'll keep the paper color; on the one hand, I do like that it adds more color variety to the mood theme! On the other hand, I don't know if there is yellow paper with pre-punched holes like that...

[redsixwing]

I think there is? There's definitely three-hole punched yellow paper, and I think it's legit to make up a paper type for this too.

Rat ball rat ball <3

It'll be fun to see what you do for Bouncy!