Rat's Saucy Nest
Shout out to the guy who works at Little Cesar and enables my wife’s pizza addiction! I’m amazed that someone local follows my tumblr. (And actually recognized my wife and her pony shirt.) You’re awesome!
Anonymous Asks:
ratofponi Said:
Sure! It’s really just a quick edit tho, I haven’t had time for more. I hope you like it, tho!
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ratofponi Said:
Oh, oops! I’m sorry. I edited the post, here’s the WS link.
Thanks for letting me know!
Watersports version, as requested. I hope book covers in Equestria are waterproof, otherwise she’s going to be upset once she wakes up!
September’s patreon picture! My patreons voted upon what to draw for this month, and this idea (also by one of my patreons) won:
Twilight Sparkle sleeping on a pile of books, like in Princess Spike episode, looking cute having arousing dreams, winking and moist. Maybe peeing in her sleep.
So here it is! Enjoy! I tried a couple of new things with it, I hope you guys like it. And I hope the little easter egg is appreciated, I really love Velvet, she’s adorable and I’m sure I’ll draw her again in the future!
If you’d like to vote on what pictures I draw next, please consider supporting me on patreon, every little bit is highly appreciated!
theotakux Asks:
ratofponi Said:
Yeh, the irony wasn’t lost on me!
Anonymous Asks:
ratofponi Said:
Thoughts after the readmore
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ratofponi Said:
It’s somewhat long, so my answer is after the read more.
Rattadoc’s pep talk is pretty fantastic, I don’t have anything to add to it (not that anyone asked me to add anything to it), but one thing I want to share is that depression can’t always be cured with positive thoughts and a positive view in life alone - in a lot of cases, you need to seek professional help and maybe medication as a part of that.
It’s a shitty disease that eats away at your soul because even if you choose to be positive and change your lifestyle and things are looking like they’re improving - wham, it hits you and then all of your effort is rewarded with more feelings of inadequacy, because you’re trying harder and better and yet nothing seems to improve.
Truth is, if you’re feeling like this, it might be time to see a professional about it.
I’ve been trying to do this for years, so I can stop feeling miserable myself. After suffering from on-and-off depression the last… what, 10 years? Every time I’ve felt like I had broken through, that I’d found my motivation, that I finally beat what was holding me down, it whacked me again not long after and it left me more and more jaded, more and more helpless.
So seek help if you think it’s something you can’t beat alone. There’s no shame in that - it took me way too long to to understand that.
Good words!
I should have mentioned more about depression and not just glanced over it in one sentence. Depression is a very sneaky and serious disease. And like limw says, there’s nothing to be ashamed about, seeking professional help is nothing bad and is in no way admitting defeat. And depression doesn’t mean that you’re constantly sad, more often than not it shows itself by a lack of interest and a lack of caring about things instead. I know of cases where people were surprised by the depression diagnosis they got, but in hindsight it made sense to them. In my opinion talking to a professional is a pretty good idea and won’t hurt.
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ratofponi Said:
It’s somewhat long, so my answer is after the read more.
Anonymous Asks:
ratofponi Said:
Because I enjoy it! Simple as that, haha. I draw what I like and I started drawing clop because I wanted to create things that don’t exist yet but that I’d like seeing. I remember that I wanted more AJ porn, but there wasn’t enough out there, so I just slowly started to draw my own!
And I think it’s the other way around, I didn’t start to draw clop with my ability, I gained my ability by starting to draw clop!
rarispy Asks:
ratofponi Said:
Oh yeh! I’m the same! And I’m so excited I found someone who agrees with me, haha. I always used the fork right-handed, even as a small kid, for exactly that reason. And my parents would always make fun of me for it while I was a kid. Switching the fork from left to right is the first thing I do if I sit down at a set table.
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ratofponi Said:
I’m pretty much self-taught. I, especially when I started out, watched a lot of art streams and read and watched a lot of tutorials. I tried to copy things other artists do and slowly adapted those methods into my own work flow. I used brush settings I saw online, but found out they don’t work that well for me, so I played around and switched things around until I was happy. I still change my brush settings and methods today on a regular basis. It’s always about adapting and finding new things that work better and that are more comfortable.
I also look at a lot of pictures in an active way, meaning when I see a picture (or even a photograph) I always identify what exactly I like about it, I look at shadows and shapes and try to recreate certain things in my mind. “How would I do this shading? How would I do this pose? How would I create this feeling? What colors do I like and what colors work here?” are things that go through my head. And if I really like something specific, like the way the head is done or the way they did the shading or something, I’ll try to incorporate that into my drawings and kinda put my own spin on it? A lot in art is about inspiration and finding your own style, find what you like and get inspiration from that, try to incorporate things you like into your art, sooner or later you’ll figure out what works for you and what doesn’t.
And most importantly: Draw. Draw a shit ton of stuff. It’s easy to read tutorials, watch some livestream and research things. But those things alone don’t make you a better artist. A lot of drawing will make you a better artist. I think it was Lauren Faust who said that everybody has 1,000 bad drawings in them, and they need to get them out before the good stuff starts to slowly emerge. Doodle whenever you can, draw whenever you have free time. And if you have some artist friends, ask them to redline and critique some of your drawings. That’s what helped me most out of all the things. Friends being honest and critiquing my stuff when I asked them and good artist friends redlining my sketches so I had a visual aid to what I could do better.
I want to take some art classes sooner or later, and I’m sure having some educational background about art is helpful, but no matter if you’re self-taught or not, you’ll always have to do your own research and figure some things out yourself, I think. But there definitely have been times where I wished that I was taught stuff like color theory or proper technique by someone without having to figure out things slowly by myself.
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ratofponi Said:
I’m not sure if I always used the left hand. But I know for sure, that when I was younger, I masturbated to a lot of stuff on the computer. And I was unable to handle the mouse with my left hand, so I remember that I thought it was pretty convenient that I masturbate with left. It leaves my right hand to browse the computer and stuff. So I suspect I just kinda taught myself to masturbate left-handed? To a point where I literally can’t masturbate with my right, because it just feels so off. The time I broke my left hand 3 years ago was a very frustrating time because of that.
How do you right-handed masturbators read porn or click through a gallery? All with hotkey use of the left hand? Left handed mouse use? What if you’re on a cellphone? I couldn’t use a cellphone with my left hand. I just don’t understand!
Sorry for tmi, but I got a lot of curios asks about the topic! I assumed it’s more common than it appears to be!
Anonymous Asks:
ratofponi Said:
Left for masturbating, right for virtually everything else like drawing, writing, etc!
Ah, sorry for all the spam, I hate uploading .gifs on tumblr :( I hope it’ll finally work, sorry for the crappy quality!
Anyways, if that’s not the cutest thing ever, then I don’t know! The newest episode (Made in Manehattan) was nice, AJ had so many cute moments. It was great seeing her as a main character in an episode again. And I always love seeing her and Rarity interacting. <3