Mid-week Check-In

[soc_puppet]

Time for the first mid-week check-in of Part 2!

How's your process going so far this week? Are you stuck on any images, or are they coming easily to you? Were you initially stuck only to figure out a way to make something work? Let's talk about it!

This is also a good time and place to share images if you don't want to make a whole post, to seek help and suggestions, and to share WIPs. If you're having trouble or looking for feedback, or just want a quieter place to share, have at it!

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[soc_puppet]

I remembered a couple of weeks ago what first inspired me to make my own mood theme: The "Heartless" mood theme by RubyD! It featured the most basic, generic Heartless from the Kingdom Hearts games, of which there were far fewer at the time, and RubyD did the artwork for all of them. I remember thinking how creative some of the interpretations were! From there I got the idea to draw my own mood theme, featuring pet rats; in the end, I never got very far, and it was only after creating this community that I began to make real progress.

Wanting to see it again, I finally dug up the mood theme from where I had it saved on an external hard drive a few days ago. Turns out that RubyD hadn't made an image for every mood, as I'm sure I thought was the case at the time; between the original release and the expansion pack RubyD eventually put out, only 102 moods were covered—this was still a lot, though, and it's possibly that RubyD put out another expansion pack or two to cover all the moods in the intervening years (no idea if RubyD made it to Dreamwidth/is still around/etc). Still, it was fun to look back at them, and see some of the creative ways that RubyD approached various moods, and what inspired me in the first place!


For work on my actual mood theme, I continue zooming right along 😂 I'd love to say that I took a quick break at all, but really, I skipped ahead on a few moods and put together this little thing for Fat Rat Tuesday 😉 Once I tweak the painter rat, that's four more moods taken care of, including this week's "Optimistic" (the rat drinking from the "half-full" glass)!

[spiralicious]

Thanks for sharing the memory! It's always interesting to hear how people got into things.

You really are zooming along!