Rat's Saucy Nest

Oh yeh, I definitely want to redraw some of my older pictures! A full scale reimagination of some of my old pieces sounds fun. Edits not so much.

Sadly I’m quite busy with a lot of projects and commissions that are overdue and need to get done. But it would be cool to do a redraw in April, I drew my first pony picture in April 2011 (even tho I didn’t get serious about drawing until 2013). So it would be a nice anniversary thing. I’ll see what I can do!

I’d have trouble deciding which picture to redraw, though. There are so many that I like and would love to see done better!

Yeh, I noticed! It’s been a problem of mine for a long while now, it’s hard breaking out of my comfort zone, but I’m trying. It doesn’t help that there are only so many ways to show off genitals, haha, but yeah, I definitely need to push myself more. I’m working on a big comic and I’m trying lots of different angles and poses there!

I’ll try to draw more variation in the future!

I do think furry and pony are a subset of the same general idea and very much alike, even tho a lot of furries (and bronies alike) will have an aneurism when I say that, haha. But yes, people have argued in circles about this since the beginning of time.

Anyways, I also think Anon was talking about the Anthro comic! I’m not too much of a fan of Anthro myself, preferring feral/clop stuff. But I know there are a lot of people who like it, and really, only one out of seven comics is Anthro, if someone really doesn’t like it, it’s not too difficult to just not look at that one comic. I mean ignoring 80% of content that absolutely caters to someone’s taste because the other 20% doesn’t sounds like an overreaction. 

But I do understand not wanting to support something that contains things you don’t agree with. After all, voting with our wallets is something very important that everyone can (and absolutely should!) do. But the message felt a bit self-entitled. Like, it’s okay to not support something, but why send a message about it, it’s not like the maker of the pack is going to censor the pack just to pander to one person. That would be silly. Anon just wanted to be a dick.

Thanks so much for liking the pack, it means a lot <3

It was a joke, because arguably porn of anthropomorphized colorful ponies is pretty furry!

You mean get rid of everything in the pack?

I really like the stabilizer feature in sai, plus it has most of the useful tools other programs have. I wish I could type in it tho, and I miss some filters and everything from photoshop, so I switch back between sai and Photoshop if I need to do something that Sai can’t handle.

I tried Manga Studio, too, and I liked it, it has some very interesting features but in the end I was too comfortable with sai to change. I personalized my sai a lot, pretty much all the brushes are individualized, I put a lot of time into arranging hotkeys, settings and everything. I’m very comfortable using sai, and I think that’s the most important thing about choosing the tool of your trade.

It doesn’t matter too much which program you chose, what matters is that you can make yourself feel comfortable using it. And I’m sure a lot is just getting accustomed to the program. I don’t think any program is inherently better than another. But it helps that sai has the great stabilizer and a lot of convenient features and is relatively cheap. I think that’s what makes it popular. While photoshop is amazing and does great things, most of its features won’t be needed on a daily basis by the average artist.

I hope I could help!

Hey! Thank you so much! Glad to hear you had a great 2015, me too! Here’s to an amazing 2016!

You’re welcome for all my art, thank you for liking it!

I use an Intuos 5 nowadays, I used a very cheap no name brand when I started out, and that did its job well enough. Even tho it was really small. For a beginning artist, I would recommend nothing too expensive, but get something that’s not too small, because otherwise you’ll have to re-learn how to draw on a bigger space if you upgrade. 

I heard monoprice tablets are pretty good and cheap. But make sure to research them, I heard they don’t like two monitor setups. I do like Wacom, their drivers are insane and there’s a small chance the driver will die every time you look angry at your tablet, other than that I’ve been very happy with my Intuos, it took a lot of abuse over the years and I like how it feels. I also heard good things about the Bamboo, Wacom’s beginners level tablets, too. So I would probably go with a Bamboo. But in the end if you don’t have too much income to spare for a tablet and you just want to draw, get whatever you can afford. Any tablet is better than no tablet. Any drawing is better than no drawing!

My advice for new artists: Draw. Keep drawing. Don’t stop drawing. Every day!

Haha, that bugs me too. I couldn’t believe how much holly I saw when I googled mistletoe to get some references.

Thanks! I’m glad it made you laugh!

Yeh, they only use “he” and “it” in the movie! There were a few interviews, before the movie was released, that implied and once even outright stated by one of the producer that BB-8 is a girl. A couple of news outlets picked up on that and reported it. Then the closer it came to the movie release, the more conflicting info was out there. Some staff members of the movie called BB he, others said she but the majority referred to BB as male. And I’m pretty sure it’s canon now that BB is indeed male, just like R2. I remember JJ saying that they started out with BB as a girl but the longer they worked with it, the more they saw BB as a boy.

But it became such a big thing apparently, that multiple real life and internet media outlets reported on the “issue”, asking if BB is male or female and how important it is that she’s female (actual quote from The Guardian). Reporters started asking actors what they thought BB’s gender is, it became one of those questions that they asked each one of the main characters. Oscar Isaac (Poe) replied that he likes BB but didn’t check under the chassis, haha. And there was even a reporter on the London red carpet premiere, that asked the real life model of BB directly if it’s a boy or a girl. It moved it’s head down and beeped sadly in response.

Anyways, it was funny and bizzare, so many newspapers and other outlets were suddenly concerned about the gender of a Star Wars Astromech. And that’s when I decided to pitch in on the debate, haha. It’s no secret that I adore strong female characters and that I identify stronger with female characters as well,so I chose the “she’s a girl” side.

I still like to think BB is female. She’s round and cute and shows more expression than R2 and since The Force Awakens is big on female characters (there were some unnamed female Stormtroopers, awesome!) I like thinking BB is one of them as well. But in the end it is a very silly issue that doesn’t matter too much, BB is a droid!

The only Astromechs that I know of that are canonically confirmed female are Obi Wan’s red R4 in the prequels and the pink R2-KT that makes a cameo in The Force Awakens and was built in honor of a little girl that died of cancer a long while ago.

I might love Star Wars a little bit too much

<3

Sure! I don’t know where the fun in that is, tho.

High res here.

Ah, I renamed a bunch of my Dropbox folders a few weeks ago, I guess that broke some of the old links, I’m sorry!

Most of my art is in high res on derpibooru. (artist tag is RatofDrawn) I don’t really have a collection of all of my art readily available, I only have the past year or so here. For older stuff you’ll have to dig through derpibooru, sorry!

I also plan on making a big 2015 collection post at the end of the year!

Edit: apparently dropbox is being difficult and the link doesn’t work always right now, it should be fixed tomorrow hopefully!

Edit 2: Should work now!

Aw, thank you so much for your kind words, I can’t stop smiling!

Since you asked nicely and I have a huge thing for anything butt related, I drew her wearing the same buttplug as in the Sex Toy Market picture.

High res here!

Enjoy!

Yeh, exactly! What a coincidence! Ah all those memories are resurfacing… I still have a crush on Misty all those years later, haha. And I kinda wanna draw some Pokémon porn now.

They were separate pictures! I’m not sure which Misty picture it was she found, but I remember being very fond of a MistyxStarmie picture, so probably that one.

Nah. My dad doesn’t understand the internet, but he knows I did “some stuff with it” to make money on the side (mainly translation work and online poker back when I was still living with my parents). My mom knows I’m an artist and that I’m a vendor at pony conventions and that I was on the Babscon design team last year. But that’s it. I think it helps that I live 5.8k miles away from them, haha.

She found some Pikachu and Misty porn on my computer when I was a young teenager some 15 years ago or so, tho. So maybe she knows what’s up?

As for my extended family, I was never really close to any of them, so we don’t really know anything about each other.

But in general I don’t mind if people know. I’m pretty open about it, I don’t think it’s anything shameful. Sure it’s something weird, and it’s an interesting ice breaker in certain situations, but it’s also definitely nothing I would wanna shove down someone’s throat, you know? People who have no restraint and talk loudly about fetish porn stuff in an inappropriate environment (like at a pony convention next to my table with a kid five feet away from them) are almost as bad as people who hate and shame anything smut related.