A Rat a Day Keeps the Depression Away

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I will be adding more designs as I post more rats here :) if I remember ^^'

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Meet Olympia! Without her the whole marching band would just faaall apart -- at least that's what she likes to think. Despite her self-importance she is genuinely passionate about the band. You see, when she was a young rat her father took her into the city to see a--

If Olympia seems familiar it is because she is based on the rats from Coraline. I had a lot of fun with curves on this one, she's a round cutie :3

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It is time for Capricorn to rule the sky! May your spirit stay strong in the face of opposition and may those who cherrish you know that you cherrish them too.

And that's it. That's the whole year. I'm writing this all in advance, scheduling these posts before the year even begins. By the time this hits by dash a whole year will have passed. Isn't that just wonderously terrible and terribly wonderous...

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It is time for Sagittarius to rule the sky! May the aim of your heart be true and the string of your will unbreaking.

It feels a little bit like cheating including the actual bow to make the shape but any other designs just did not look good XD and libra got the scales, so really, it's only fair.

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It is time for Scorpio to rule the sky! May your enemies feel your wrath and your friends your warmth.

Such a happy fella! :D All these 'm' based zodiacs were such interesting challenges, lol

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It is time for Libra to rule the sky! May your decisions be easy and rewarding, or at least not frustrating as fuck.

I think this one has the most interesting stuff going on. I also really like the tail swoop here, so fancy.

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It is time for Virgo to rule the sky! May your curiosity be sated and your times of rest rejuvenating.

You might have noticed by now that I base the general body shape and position of these rats on the symbol for these zodiac signs... yeah, Virgo was the hardest one to do that with, for - I hope - obvious reasons.

I think I did pretty good! Here's the second haircut rat, btw. Unless I scheduled the third one already, in which case this is the third one. Whatever XD

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It is time for Leo to rule the sky! May your appearance always be just as fabulous as you are and your breakfast as delicious.

I think this is one of only three rats in this book that can be said to have a haircut (unless beards count, in which case it's four). So... yeah. Fun fact, lol

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It is time for Cancer to rule the sky! May you be ever aware of your own greatness and persevere through dark times.

There is my favourite, round little guy! I mean, come on. I nailed this one. The eye, the legs, the snoot, the tail! Wonderful.

Usually I'd tag the zodiac's name on it's own but uhhh, I'm just not gonna on this one...

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Did you say RAT REQUESTS?

I think you should draw a rat riding a skateboard. Wearing sunglasses. I think that would be. Heh. Ratical

Ratical B) Hell yeah for Rat Requests!! <3

Colours pending. I think this one wears its inspiration on its sleeve, but I'll acknowledge that it's not just Dirk outright entirely because I couldn't bring myself to leave out the backwards hat. I'm sorry if that's what the request was actually about and I just missed it XD

Pencil sketch with thumbnails because why not

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It is time for Gemini to rule the sky! May you find harmony and belonging, with your peers as well as with your self.

It's MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! (according to the unadjusted zodiac calander, obviously.) A lot of the time when people make a "I drew all the zodiac signs as X" series, I end up not liking gemini very much. Idk, it's a curse or something. I'm pretty happy with how my version turned out :) it's not my favourite from the bunch, but still pretty good.

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It is time for Taurus to rule the sky! May you grab hold of your goals and not let go until you've either reached them or grown to no longer want them.

We're finally done with "spoilery" zodiac scans XD probably literally no one cares except me. Whatever, I can ramble down here about whatever I want, probably nobody reads these.

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It is time for Aries to rule the sky! May you crush anyone standing in your way or at the very least tell someone annoying to fuck the hell off.

For the record, I don't believe in astrology. My little "horoscopes" are just as vauge and random as any of them, lol

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My love i need a harrow and giddeon rat. Like you don’t understand. This is a necessity. I shall perish without a giddeon and harrow rat.

Meet the Ninth! Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Their existence is a complexly interwoven one and we love them for it. We can survive another day because rat Griddlehark exists!

Making it unclear whose leg that is is a lot easier in black and white XD But I'm pretty happy with how creative I was able to get with the colors. The tails could also both be either ones ;)

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It is time for Pisces to rule the sky! May your path be unobstructed and filled with nice, smooth rocks to cradle in your palm.

I'm realizing that I'm again technically giving spoilers because in the book they are in zodiac order or whatever and I instead started with the new year. Whatever, it won't be a problem after this one, lol. And again, these are already all on insta, so really, I'm just being ridiculous.

And no, I'm not going to turn any of these png versions black. Suffer.

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Meet Millie, the demon rat! Millie is the youngest of the Malice line of mischievous demonic creatures. She likes hanging around in a spooky void and messing with people or even other demons. She's the baby of the family so no one can actually stay mad at her, lol

Millie is predominantly inspired by Welcome To Nightvale's Khoshekh and has nothing to do with the Helluva Boss Millie. I drew these originals ages ago, if I even knew Helluva Boss back then it wasn't something I was thinking about when picking this name... I think.

This png seems kinda pointless, but whatever XD