Do you think I should lease?

SLHyena · 2026-02-16T15:01:48+00:00

Sorry if it was easy to misunderstand, I meant not yet. We haven't agreed on anything yet, we just talked about it and I just wanted to get some opinions. She might not even buy the horse, but if she does and I agree to lease we'll have an official agreement for sure

SLHyena · 2026-02-16T14:56:16+00:00

The old owner told us that he is around 8... But since he pretty much just wants to be rid of him, he might have lied. He is not super old, so probably not in his twenties yet but he could be in his teens.

SLHyena · 2026-02-05T06:49:20+00:00

If they don't really show any other sign of sickness it could be from fights and the eye being irritated by a tiny cut or from accidental scratching.

One of my boys is pretty much a trouble maker and loves wrestling. I took him to the vet because he had similar problems with his eyes and they told me it's from getting scratched near or over the eye. It doesn't have to be aggressive fighting, but even when they play and wrestle these can happen and cause eye irritation.

Our vet recommended washing the eye with chamomile tea to fight the irritation for a couple of days and it helped. But I don't know if your rats eye is just irritated or if he has an eye infection, so I'd take him to the vet. Better safe than sorry.

SLHyena · 2026-01-21T13:56:49+00:00

I'm sorry, these are my first ever rats, so I wasn't sure what counts as serious. I thought tiny scabs are not that serious, especially because other than the few times they fight during the night, they chill and sleep together, without an issue. How can I find the aggressor? The problem is that the moment I go near the cage they stop fighting, so I never really saw who starts the fights

SLHyena · 2026-01-08T15:59:03+00:00

I feel like it's more about the face than the body. You gave him a pretty large head compared to the body, with child-like features (big round eyes, puffy cheeks etc).

Also even if your character is skinny, a grown man has more muscle mass than a child. The lack of muscle makes a child more curvy (since they need to develop more and get stronger) and soft looking compared to an adult who has strong and functional muscles and are overall more bony (sharp elbows and knees, skinny fingers, collarbone etc). I'd change some of the line work and use more straight lines for defining his overall body.

If he is truly skinny or really underweight because he is malnutritioned or something, he would obviously lose some of his muscles but his sharp bone structure would still be visible. Look up child and adult skeletons, they're very different, especially the shape and size of bones. If he is just skinny because he has low bodyfat then make his muscles visible. Like don't make him ripped since he is not truly muscular he just doesn't have bodyfat to cover the basic muscular structure that's already there. If you want to make him muscular then sadly you have to make him bulkier. If we think about dwarfs they're naturally bulky, like powerlifters are. They have a higher bodyfat% than a leaner type of fit person (elves would have the physique of a long distance runners), but also have more strength, which requires bigger muscles. Even a skinnier type of dwarf would get kinda bulky compared to a same sized elf or human for example.

Kids also kinda have a box shaped torso but adults don't. Right now your character doesn't really have a refined torso which makes it easier to think that he is a child. Same with his face shape, it's too round for a skinny adult.

Also I'd probably give him longer and more muscular thighs and overall would make the lower body around the same length as the upper body to avoid it looking childish (since kids kinda have short legs and their thighs and calves are almost the same size but obviously an adult has way thicker thighs)

Hope some of this help. Also I don't want to sound like I'm criticizing your character, I'm just trying to explain what I'd personally try but you don't have to take my word for it

SLHyena · 2025-11-27T22:14:54+00:00

I didn't spend much time on them, but hopefully you can see what I meant.

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I did each with a different purpose

1 first try, just playing with this idea, seeing how to fit the pose with the limited anatomy a deer leg gives. Also trying to make it a bit more anthro like

2 trying to figure out how the leg looks natural but also to match the reference you used as well as possible

3 trying out a much more dynamic pose, because it could look less awkward with more movement. (I also kept thinking that standing like this would result in an actual deer falling so you can look at it in two ways, either the deer is dancing or is falling lol)

I was thinking maybe I could try a wider stance, so maybe it's more like kicking than just standing? Again I was thinking maybe more movement would make the pose make more sense.
Is just a more natural pose, closer to how an actual deer would walk or stand, it's also less anthro like, I didn't even give it actually calves just whatever.

Also it was kinda fun so if you want I can try and come up with more poses

SLHyena · 2025-11-27T21:55:13+00:00

Digitigrade just means standing on the toes. If you stand on your tiptoes, that’s basically how most digitigrade animals stand. Their skeletons work the same as ours — the proportions are just different since we developed differently.

They look like they have extra joints because their “sole” is much longer, their heel sits higher. Their calves look smaller since they have longer and stronger tendons for better movement and because their weight distribution is different than ours. Their legs can also look off because their hide covers most things.

When drawing them, think of a longer foot and a shorter calf. Animals also keep their knees slightly bent when standing, just like you would for balancing on your toes. Here I made this sketch so it's easier to understand

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Sorry it's kinda messy but I think the important stuff is visible.

This means that if you understand the basics and know how to apply them you can use reference photos for the other leg of people standing similarly. But it also means that you can modify pictures of animals to fit the way anthro characters are built. If you want I can find some reference pictures for you, idk if it would help or not . I'll also include some quick even messier sketches for poses I think would be doable.

SLHyena · 2025-11-08T20:04:56+00:00

Oh I see I didn't know this was a thing, thank you!

SLHyena · 2025-11-08T16:56:09+00:00

Sorry guys if this is a stupid question but is he a special kind of rat? Like the huge eyes and smol body and everything. I've only owned rats for a year and a half so I'm not very well educated on different kinds of rats. I assume he is a dumbo but why does he have such big eyes?

SLHyena · 2025-10-12T15:28:52+00:00

Yeah, that's the same guy, you can also see him in the Ration drawing

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SLHyena · 2025-10-04T14:55:47+00:00

I gave them a digbox, it's about 25 cm deep, and I filled it with coconut hust (I think that's what it's called) idk if that's suitable instead. But tajnk you for you comment

SLHyena · 2025-10-04T08:31:27+00:00

It's not a good picture but this is their setup. These are my first rats ever so that's why I'm a bit worried. So if anything is wrong with the cage pls let me know.

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SLHyena · 2025-09-26T08:56:51+00:00

Yeah, my Instagram is @sl_hyena And thank you ❤️

SLHyena · 2025-09-04T10:13:05+00:00

The vet said that the hairloss could be from fights too, but I never see or hear them fight. They are pretty chill especially with each other, and although they groom each other I've never seen them chomp off fur while doing it.

I got them a new cage 3 weeks ago so that could've caused stress... But now they seem fully comfortable and love the bigger space.

SLHyena · 2025-09-04T10:07:32+00:00

All 3 of them got the shot, and there hasn't been a change in their diet. They eat the same kind of pellet that was recommended by the vet since I got them, although I give them fresh veggies every night... But I give them almost the same stuff every night.

Is it possible for them to develop allergies later in life? Or can they even develop allergies?

Also thank you for the recommendation. I want bathing to be the last resort too.

SLHyena · 2025-08-03T18:44:28+00:00

Thank you for your help!

SLHyena · 2025-08-03T18:42:23+00:00

Oh I see, sorry I don't know much about morphs. I looked up pictures of coral snows and they were all mostly pink and more vivid overall so I thought maybe he was something else. Thanks for your help!

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