StudioRat

@studiorat.bsky.social

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Painter, illustrator, maker of comics & shenanigans. Violently queer elder goth. 🏳️‍🌈🖤Cat pictures and crossover with my writing is inevitable. No genAI, no NFT, ever.

Detail from monochrome comic page. Ganondorf and Zelda are arguing about her flouting his order to stay out of the damaged tower. He is trying very hard to be intimidating. He is losing this fight.
Screenshot of monochrome comic in progress showing a rolling landscape with clouds and bitch trees above a fortified encampment
Monochrome panel depicting the interior of a campaign tent, and to the left a blank ragged letter page. The single bed is a folding chest-bed, with a simple folding leather and wood stool beside it. Several books and a pile of letters rest on the shelf of the bed and on the stool. Next to that is a folding armor stand, and a carved washstand. Rugs hang on the tent wall and cover the ground.
Painterly, romantic bust-length portrait of s brown-skinned elven woman with dark brown hair and eyes. She is dressed in an autumnal orange print 1830’s gown with black piping, signifying her widowed status. She wears a modest white chemise under the gown and a silver locket on a black ribbon as a necklace.
Grayscale comic panel showing Ganondorf in a long coat and fur hood bemused by a group of panicked blins. They hold elaborate patterned cloth and one of them is exclaiming ‘I want to be Pretty.’
Close photo of a painterly study of chicken feet. The hen has golden feathers. Brushstrokes and the canvas texture are clearly visible
Loose painterly rendering of Revali and Zelda perched in the heart of the Roost, overlooking Tabantha and Hebra. Revali seems to be talking about something, and Zelda leans against his chest, staring at the mountains in the distance. The color gamut is pale and slightly purply.
Black and white wide comic panel showing Windwaker Ganondorf reclining with a seal point cat curled up on his chest. The cat’s ears are flat and her tail is smacking his face, but his lips curve in a subtle smile.
A wide angle digital painting of a southwestern grassland in spring at sunset. A bit over half the composition focuses on the dramatic clouds above the faultline peaks and volcanic mesas interrupting the horizon. In the foreground are a few distinct native plants, mostly wildflowers and sage.
Digital painting of a Black elven barkeeper wearing a turquoise 1830’s dress with a white apron pinned to it. She stands before a gilded, mirrored barback full of diverse spirits and is washing a glass in her hands. A black powder pistol lays on the counter in front of her, and bounty notices are affixed at the edges of the mirror
Loose calligraphic, monochrome portrait of twilight Ganondorf on a gray starry background. His right hand is heavily bandaged, and he holds a sealed letter to his nose with soft expression. A little flourish to the right includes a handwritten “sniff” with a heart because he’s being a romantic sap in secret that’s why.
Young black cat loafed on a coffee table beside some legos. He’s looking at the camera with zero thoughts upstairs
Screenshot of a wide birdseye comic panel. It is a silhouette and outstretched hatch work shadow of a man on foot holding the reins of a large armoured horse with a cloaked rider pillion behind the war saddle. The rider is almost invisible in the silhouette of the horse
Screenshot of a detail of a digital painting in Procreate. Depicts a black spanish norman horse in charro tack bowing beside a pale woman in a white 1830s gown. Varied visible textures define the forms and impressions of light and shadow
Small original painting on a tablet stand. It is a figure study of a portly man holding a stick, with visible brushstrokes and texture. The overall cast of the piece is green
Process video timelapse showing thumbnailing 8 pages for the open of the third volume of Shade of My Enemy
Painterly illustration of a stampede of longhorn cattle with four riders among them, riatas airbourne. Most of the cattle are brindle or paint coats, bellowing and wild-eyed. The riders in the distance have gray and chestnut horses. The rider in the midground with red hair has a larger black horse who is biting one of the longhorns beside him.
Charcoal-style drawing of an elven fandango. At the left, a fiddler, harpist, and two guitars play for the dancers. To the right, a very tall vaquero with his hands behind his back is doing fancy footwork while the woman he dances with twirls around him using skirts and shawl to emphasize her motion. She and several musicians look happy. The vaquero’s expression is focussed and a little wistful.
Watercolor style digital studies of flowers arranged over a thin banner of paper pinned to a loose sky background. The paper is marked with a combined stylized crest of red eagle, green wolves, purple wings with abstracted gear-tooth halo and triforce symbol. The flowers shown are: blue aster, morning glory, golden peony, tuberose, red moss rose, and purple toadflax.
Romantic digital portrait of a brown-skinned elf with red hair and golden eyes, dressed in 1820s charro fashion: embroidered black jacket, red-orange silk neckcloth, cream sarape secured with leather cord and enamelwork disk, with turquoise and rust accents
Screenshot of a detail of a comic panel in grayscale and photo blue, showing Ganondorf tacking up his horse
A time lapse of the prior portrait study development, mostly in sepia tones, color splashed in loosely at the end
Desaturated portrait of Windwaker Ganondorf embracing a woman in a flowing purple gown. He is positioned below her, his right arm wrapped behind her knees. A translucent art nouveau-ish border in gold frames them.
Sepia-toned charcoal style study of three longhorn cattle in a field with sinrise behind them
Digital charcoal-style sepia tone study of a dark horse wearing braids, mosquero, a charro style leverage bit with dragon design on the arm and roller for the tongue, yawning messily at the man holding his reins in bright midday light. The sharp-featured man informally dressed in only shirt, trousers, and suspenders does not look amused.
Sepia-toned digital charcoal-style study of three horses and riders moving left to right at speed in a loose southwestern landscape. The forward rider on the dark horse in charro inspired gear is pivoting hard, his rifle in his right hand. The rear rider with a spotted horse and hybrid tack is sitting back as his horse vaults an obstacle, his rifle in his left hand. The third horse is spooking in a cow-hop, carrying an early western trail saddle, bosal and mecate tethered to the rider falling to the ground at the left side of the frame with implied dirt and blood on impact. In the far distance in the horizon, pale outlines of wolves run left to right over the mountains.
Digital charcoal-style sepia-tone study looking up at two riders at a slow trot under a starry sky.
Loose digital painting of elves in 18th century inspired fashion dancing in a garden at night, with stars and lanterns lighting the brick dance floor. The central couple os a black elven woman in a light blue dress with purple accents, and her partner is a red-haired white man wearing a dark blue suit with gold lining
Ornate gold frame with red faceted heart gems on either side, against a blue textured ground. The image in the frame is a standing pale elf with long gold hair pulled back in a high three-strand plait, their back to the viewer, gold-hilted tuck in their right fist and bright magic in the cup of their left hand. They wear blue-gray garments: loose pants gathered at the ankle and fitted half-sleeve side-vented tunic, with soft curl-toed shoes. They stand in a courtyard or large room, with an arched colonnade in the background and a polychrome 8 pointed star on the floor under their feet.
Screenshot of clipstudio paint workflow with a color cover for Shade of My Enemy Volume 3 in progress. The text is calligraphic in light gold and the top half of the page has an ornate gold frame with red jeweled hearts around the central image. In that frame twilight princess link is holding the hylian shield on his right arm in guard and making a sweeping bloody cut with the master sword in his left. The graphic design portions are polished while the inset image is rough & painterly
A screenshot of a clip studio paint workspace with half of a page visible. In the top panel stretching across the page a fully rendered grayscale campaign tent and armored man in black ink stands at a map table near a support pole with a photoblue mass blocked in under him… and random swooshes of blue ink indicating future developments. The second panel is a loose pencil sketch of a goblin with a fancy curled updo and a text note reading “treason”. The third panel at bottom right shows a developed ink and hatching close portrait of the man with some of the sketchy lines still visible under, with the text note “told you not to do anything foolish”
Sepia tone study of a greek courtyard garden with trees
Ink, hatch and wash rendering. A jade-colored oggish man with dark hair carries a busty wood elf in bridal fashion, returning her mischievous kiss. He wears his hair braided up and back in a standing spine-like rope that ends in a looped queue at the nape. He has a pair of gauged ear piercings, a brow ring, and a red tunic. She wears a long fluffy pink dress with a square neckline and bishop sleeves. Her hair is dressed in a pair of side queues, with two long pieces pulled over her pink heart-figured circlet to frame her face. She wears gold hoop earrings with pointy dangles
A painting of a dark elf with dark curly hair, standing in knee-deep water and holding a wide bowl which seems to emit light. A translucent white garment drapes the left side of her body. Behind her are pale tree trunks and two moons - on the left the small red moon is full, on the right the larger white moon is a crescent.
Color comic panel: on the left an orcish character with a xiphos and round shield spars with a human with a spear in a sandy courtyard. They are both wearing white linen shirts and dark pants. Behind them under the suspended ogive arcade a crowd of various fantasy people in red and gold uniforms watch the spar. The lighting implies midday heat.
Screenshot of ClipStudio paint interface showing monochrome inky studies of Link in profile with a bow, a horned wooden blin mask, and a wooden blin round shield with rough radial boards, geometric decorations & feathers
A letter size brown-toned page of four graphite and tone sketches. All four compositions feature a tall figure with a hat and riding boots, accompanied by an anthropomorphic rat
Snapshot of an ipad in a red impact case open to Clip studio, resting on the side of a drowsy calico who commandeered my red ergonomic bolster pillow and rests her wee chin on her white paw. CSP is open to a comic workflow with three two-page spreads across and down inna grid. The first 4.5 spreads are rendered and inked in monochrome, the latter half are rough pencil sketches on toned digital paper. In the background are blankets and cat toys and art mounted in the panel of a billy bookcase door.
A painterly and textured digital study of a mojave landscape with a blue sky and late afternoon sunlight. In the foreground in the shadow of a rocky hill, an elven scout with braided hair crouches by a small fire with a cylindrical pot suspended over it. To the right of the scout is the handwritten title and signature for the study “patrolling the mojave”, a prompt from the Yeehawgust event on tumblr in 2023. In the midground to the left side of the frame, a single rider on a horse with two pack burros moves west through the sagebrush, navigating around a smaller rock formation. On the horizon are layers of faultline and volcanic mountains.
Screenshot of a clip studio paint workspace showing eight monochrome two-page spreads and a color cover for Shade of My Enemy Volume 3. The table of contents spread is rough with handwritten notes. The four rendered spreads juxtapose a hawk flying through sweeping landscape, landing on the hero’s fist on the right page of the third spread, and approaching the castle in the fourth. There are few speech bubbles, the text instead presented in excerpts of books and letters. At the bottom right, two spreads have faint, rough pencil sketches on otherwise blank pages.
Bad habit artist bingo card with five near misses.
Rough digital painting of an anthropomorphic gray rat sitting on an upturned cardboard box, facing to the left of the frame. They wear a red buffalo plaid shirt and dark, loose capri length pants with dark patterned slippers. They have rainbow hoops piercing the left ear, red hair draped over their right, and a rainbow coffee cup in their paws. The box says “studio box” on the right side.
Five models standing on a gray worktable: a 1:9 scale Bob Ross action figure, a 1:9 Breyer youth doll, a 1:9 Breyer Roy the Belgian model, a 1:12 Ocarina of Time Link, a 1:12 Breyer Merrylegs body.
Two patchwork pillows with a d20 motif. One is a brown d20 and the other an amber-gold, both on a small-scale mushroom print calico with black ground.
Six patchwork pillow faces with a d20 motif on a neutral ground, laid out on the loft table. Two panels are 24” mottled gray batik with blue motifs at center. The other four have tiny mushrooms on a black background, and the d20 motifs are done variously in browns, greens, dark reds, and amber-gold.
Tortie-calico curled up on my left arm & red bolster pillow. I am holding an ipad in a red & black impact case, open to a split screen with a hark reference and a grayscale CSP file. In the background stands a red coffee mug, blankets, cat bowls. The cat does not look pleased but i assure you this was all her idea and she’s purring.
Snapshot of a 1:20 scale printed resin percheron in early stages of a leap. The model is sitting on side table with a pale green battenburg style tablecloth with a small white and green ikea tray and a red coffee mug that says “Life is better at the campsite” with a little vintage travel trailer and pine trees graphic
A stack of 1:9 scale quilts in various colors on a worktable next to black batting with white chalk guidelines drawn on
Pov: you have black leggings and brown ariats and your feet are propped up and crossed at the ankle on a pile of cushions. You have a round half-bengal lounging in your lap, looking over her shoulder at you as you document the ipad with a CSP workspace open, resting on her back in its red and black impact case. In the background bookcases and a cat tree and a couple tables and sewing machine are visible
A 1:9 diorama of a yellow sitting room with gothic arched windows and door the closer masculine figure in a gray sweater holds a chunk of cream and red patchwork, and a basket of spooled yarn and miniature tools sits at his feet. The rest of the room is slightly out of focus
Studio snapshot: mahogany veneer tiered writing desk with temporary platform of white melamine shelves supporting a wagner popup spray booth with 20" air filter. A shaded lamp hangs above and an ott light is rigged against the right wall, next to the airbrush cleaning vessel, a bottle of water, high flow medium, toothpicks, and swabs. A gray rubbermaid bin on the floor supports the compresor unit. To the left of the booth a few bottles of paint are visible. A tiny space heater with fake flames is under the desk and a black office chair with rollerblade wheels sits in front of it.
Sweet half-bengal cat with white markings and green eyes, wearing a purple leather collar. She is gazing up and left of the camera, asking for more pets, burrowed on my blanketed lap, under an ipad with its screen off in a red impact case
Pov looking down at a butcher block counter with a red army painter cutting mat and part of a larger black creative mark mat. Laud our at center are rough hewn sticks with tapered ends and plain, some arranged as the L-shape of a bed with headboard
Corner view of a dark apothecary style coffee table with one stable block and the tack tower of the Maxim Sally Fair wood barn, refinished in a sort of heavy timber and stucco style. There are still holiday wreaths with blue ribbons hanging over the lower tack tower windows and greenery swags hung between the small upper storey windows. Cardboard scissor trusses are pinned and taped to the “crown” structure on the top of the tack tower wall. On the wall behind and above the model barn is pinned an original watercolor painting of a shadowknight, and a framed print of a mountainous landscape hangs next to that
Snapshot looking down at a vintage carpentry book with diagrams of scissor and hammer trusses, with a 1:9 scale scissor truss made of strips of corrugated cardboard and masking tape laying on it. Next to the book are a 6” omnigrid quilting ruler, a roll of masking tape, a dewalt snapoff knife, a green fiskars cutting mat, and a veritas 1” square
Same as above post, only the page in progress on the ipad has developed further to show a bridge taking shape in photo blue amid the grayscale landscape. The coffee mug has turned to show the graphic “life is better at the campsite” and the calico rotated 20 degrees, her little white paw cocked up
POV: you have a 10.5” ipad in a red and black impact case in your left hand. A tortoiseshell calico is firmly loafed in your left elbow. beyond her is a side table with a green bobbin lace tablecloth, and a red enamelware style mug with coffee on a little tray. The room beyond shows another green velvet chair, handknit noro blanket, and microchip cat bowl under the TV stand.
Photo of the original box for the Sally Fair Stable showing the raw pine country aesthetic. The box advertises for age 7+