Dover

the GoatRat

[king-the-pathetic]

One of my dear doggies had a great time when we visited the coast

[king-the-pathetic]

son.. i promise it wasnt that bad..

[simplified-horses]

Mission: draw a horse today. (and show me if you want!)

This is the horse I'm working on today. I wont finish it today and that is just fine. I'm enjoying the process and trying to expand my skills. I've been responding somewhat well to medicine and recently my hands were functional enough to actually draw a decent sketch on paper!! I don't think I've drawn like this on paper since before my health problems started last year.

This is my fursona Dover (@dover-the-goatrat ) on my horse isle 3 sosig Toyota Avalon (see more of her @moonfang-hi3 )

I doubt I will go back to posting here daily but in the future I might post simplified horses here every once in a while. This blog was an amazing way for me to make and share art while I barely had enough mobility in my hands to shittily trace a picture of a horse on my phone. Thank y'all for sticking around and looking at my goofy simple horses!

[dover-the-goatrat]

[disabilityaidpositivity]

Mobility aid positivity post!

[ID: A four-panel hand-drawn comic featuring a toucan and a bipedal goat-like character.

Panel 1: the toucan is on the left and the goat is on the right, facing each other. The toucan asks, “If you can walk without a cane… why use one?”

Panel 2: the goat responds, “Why should I be in more pain than necessary?”

Panel 3 is titled “Flare up without my cane” and shows the goat lying on the ground in pain.

Panel 4 is titled “Flare up with my cane” and shows the goat standing with a cane and smiling, accompanied by a rainbow and two butterflies.

The artist’s handle 'dover-the-goatrat' appears in the corner of panel 2. /end ID]

[dover-the-goatrat]

Rattober day 1 friend shaped

Very low effort today because my hands hurt

[baysalt]

Posting this on behalf of my dear @thebeanbaguette who I'm thrilled to be joining with working on RATTOBER 2025!!!:

🐀🎃 RATTOBER SEASON APPROACHES... ✨

We are so excited to share our 2025 prompt list with you! Please join us for a month of fun and most (best) of all, RATS. I (bean) am also happy to announce that this year has a proper team--a proper mischief!! Please welcome @baysalt, @/ratsjo, & @/i.want.it.rat.way (of rat.way.sancutary ). We hope you'll have as much fun rattobering as we had putting it together.

🐀 There are 31 prompts for 30 days and ONE FINALE—do them all, skip around, combine, it’s all up to you. Just have fun with it! A bingo sheet will be released mid-October 🐁 There is no expectation that you complete prompts day-of, take all the prep or work time as needed 🐀 Use #rattober #rattober2025 for your posts, and feel free to DM a participant so we can find it easily 🐁 SHARE with the cool rat people in your life and help our mischief grow 🐀 Any & all media is welcome. Rat adjacent subjects are welcome. Follow prompts at your discretion. Just draw stuff! 🐁 Absolutely 🚫NO AI🚫 Let's celebrate human-made works!

We'll see you soon! All hail the rat! 🐀 🐀 🐁🐀 🐀 🐀🐁 🐀 🐀

[thebeanbaguette]

Here we goooo >:)c

[mr-3rr0r]

[dover-the-goatrat]

sneak peak at the next comic. we'll be back to our regularly scheduled goatrat posting shortly!

[dover-the-goatrat]

I got 2 mass attacks done this year. i swore i would stop after the rats but just kept seeing ponies that i wanted to draw!

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tag list below the cut

rats: @spicypineapplejuice @mcrpony @campingwithmonsters @basic-rat @mgdeerla @bididoodles @marrowoodart @farfetchedfox

ponies: @ddduckle @nimshrike @snail-sprout @neuroticartist

[dover-the-goatrat]

i loved drawing some goatrats and furries during art fight. i may try to draw these characters a bit better next year

x @meatbeatmaniifesto

x @a-boy-called-micah

x @little-black-cat-illustration

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x from left to right: @ovineophanim @jasbell (no tumblr) (no tumblr)

[dover-the-goatrat]

wip of the last animation. i drew each leg individually then mashed them together digitally

finished animation

[dover-the-goatrat]

i tried my hand at animation this art fight and i really enjoyed it. i roughly animated on paper first then i digitally drew over the hand drawn animation to clean it up. Ibis Paint's animation stuff sorta sucks but i didn't want to learn a whole new app just for these

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this next one took soo much brain power but i really like how it turned out

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[campingwithmonsters]

MORE FARTFIGHT ATTACKS RAAAAHHH!!!!

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Sparky by ForestofCuriosities

Honeygold by @agent-plaguemask

Poi by rainstorm_luminous

Jo Wilson by @tumblingclockwork

Bath & BodyWorks Costal Cliffs by Papoompala

Guinevere by cardamon

Edelweiss by Sheepsighs

Aurora by Your_Local_Raccoon

Dover by @dover-the-goatrat

Berry by vulpix

[dover-the-goatrat]

Now that Art Fight is over, I have thoughts

Art fight was really fun! I'm excited about next year. I have some characters bookmarked for next year already. It was a really nice push to actually practice drawing. I could definitely feel myself improving over the month. However, the quality of what I was putting out did gradually decline as I got a bit burnt out and frustrated with the grading system.

The grading system for attacks feels like it needs more options, clearer wording, and more examples. I would love examples with thorough breakdowns of how and why they are graded a certain way. The examples they provide are helpful but could be better. The grading options for animations especially felt very minimal. I feel like they don't get as many points as they should

[lassieisanapple]

Eighth attack on Artfight!

[dover-the-goatrat]

I love it so so much!!

[dover-the-goatrat]

just got the 10 attacks achievement :3

this is my 10th attack

[king-the-pathetic]

This went on for several minutes. Every rustle was just as disturbing as the first one

[dover-the-goatrat]

some equine attacks ive done :D

Renoir belongs to heathenfang

Walnut and Morpho belong to MrChips

Agrippa and Homer belong to feaster

Sir Duncan III belongs to @basic-rat