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Socar MYLES · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 4:53 pm

A slightly more light-hearted take on the bad rat theme--this is the thief who steals the stars from the sky so that they can twinkle instead in the eyes of pretty girls.

It is almost without colour this time...I used my laptop to do this one, and the screen does no justice to colour.

Darklighter · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 5:22 pm

damn sweet for laptop art.... i like the flow of the wood....

one crit i guess, i think that right "claw" should just be hidden behind the body, looks like he twisted his ankle or something =P

CluelessMorgan · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 5:43 pm

that is awesome....like so many other peices of art on this forum....

How do you guys learn to color something like that?? Is it just in photoshop or something else???

Bob the Newt · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 6:04 pm

i've been meaning to ask you, why rats man? wtf, why rats.

Icannon · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 6:09 pm

this must be my favorite from you. i dig the whole rat thing. also, the sweet and simple story behind this image.

Malachi Maloney · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 8:28 pm

Hey Socar. Nice stuff. It's one of my new favs.

One question.......How do you paint on a laptop? Do you plug your Wacom in via usb port or something? And, how much ram does your laptop have to be able to run PhotoShop and a Wacom tablet at the same time? That must be a pretty sweet laptop to be able to do that. My chick has a laptop and it can't multi-task worth a shiznizle.
Anyway........I really like the texturing on the bark of the tree. Very nice.

Take it easy,
MDM

Frosted Flame · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 9:37 pm

Bob, Socar is a woman.

Socar, this is perfect. By far my favorite piece from you. It is now my wallpaper. Very, very inspiring!

Socar MYLES · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 12:00 pm

Darklighter - Yeah, you're probably right about that...I didn't even notice what a weird foot-position I had chosen.

Clueless Morgan - Thanks for the compliment. Yes, this is just in Photoshop. I have some tutorials about how it's done at http://www.gorblimey.com/tutorials/ .

Bob the Newt - Why does someone ALWAYS have to ask that question? Why rats? Well, painting rats makes me happy. I spend most of my time drawing things that aren't rats for work...so in my free time, I just draw what I want.

Malachi Maloney - Yes, I just put the Wacom in the laptop's USB port. I've got 128 RAM on my laptop, I think...can't remember exactly how much I bought. It's pretty snappy, though.

Icannon & Frosted Flame - Thanks much!

Conor O Kane · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 4:57 pm

That's cool. I like that you keep drawing rats, at least we know what to expect from you

Socar MYLES · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 5:01 pm

Anyway...this rat is actually very different from most of the rats I draw.... I used several reference photos instead of a live model...because no-one I know has a Gambian giant pouched rat for me to draw. The model is about 17 inches long (not including tail), and six inches high at the shoulder. Isn't she sweet? I want to get one of these little guys one day.

Thrush · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 5:34 pm

Nice. It makes me smile. Keep with the rats you have a special thing going.

n8 · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2001 6:33 am

yeah..the right foot does look weird for a while...but if you keep looking at it, it starts making sense..hehe...keepem rats comin..just make sure we have a Piped Piper around to make them all go away when they start eating all our food

The Brat · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2001 8:32 am

Eeee, her little hands are cute... and the thread seems so delicate. I'd be afraid to touch it.
My vis. language teacher would probably start going on about hotspots and contrast and stuff if he were looking at this. Get him out of my head... arghh..

Love them ratties.

patrick · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2001 11:37 pm

Socar, I used to think you were wierd always drawing rats, but lately your rats are beginning to develop an unusual natural allure to them, and I love the simple yet soft stories behind them. This and your lady portrait are my favorites so far.

And strapping a Wacom to a laptop aint all that difficult, my work laptop only has 98 megs and a 330 celeron processor, and it works fine.

horstenpeter · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2001 10:56 am

Hey, love this one. Don't know why I didn't click on this thread earlier

I especially like the story behind the rat. How do you manage to dream up such weird stories ?

The trunk he's standing on reminds me of Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas in a way.

Have to agree that the foot position is really weird. But whatever. Still far better than what I could do.

Did you do this one on the road ? I mean with your laptop.

Dthind · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2000 Posts: 436

I like, if I were to make a comment, I would like to see the sky colored more blue-ish, but no complaints.

PS: My two little girls (3 and 5) have rats and love them. One of them likes to draw her rat (Mitzi).

Keep up the good work...