Dreams under the Moon

The temple of Light (originally: A Fény temploma) 2025 Acrylic on paper

Terrible god of beauty, healer and destroyer, please accept my admiration.

I made this for Rattober, for the prompt 14. rat church. There was, from the beginning, no possible way that I wouldn't make that prompt about him, there was always going to at least be an allusion; I made it a lot more overt than I originally planned, though.

Because this is also an angry painting. I'm angry with something someone said. Rant under the cut.

Prodigious appetite (originally: A nagyétkű) 2025 Digital (vectors)

I made this for Rattober, for the prompts 25. gourd rat and 28. stretchy rat. I was considering including a loaf too in fulfilling the rat's great hunger, but I have another idea for that one. Nonetheless, here below the cut is a screenshot of the "sketch layer" with what the loaf was going to look like.

This took me a while to make, modifying it frame by frame, but it was actually really soothing to do, and did me good.

“Are you a cop?” she asked. Fabien grinned wide as one of the men at the table cleared his throat and began to stand. “Oh sure, a special breed, too; Detective.” The man who had made to move sighed in relief, dropping back into his seat. The woman smirked, a mischievous look replacing her irritable expression. “Are you any good? Did you know there are people gambling here? I think some of them are even drinking,” she said in a stage whisper, hand cupped around her mouth for effect. Fabien gasped, clutching his heart as he took a wide-eyed look around the room. “My God, is that what this is?” he breathed. “My granny said her knitting club liked to meet up to play cards, but I had no idea she meant the illegal kind.”

You leave the warmth of the shop behind, heading out into the street. You walk by these tall, narrow, brick buildings, many with shops that are closing right about now or have already closed. This isn't really a district that many people frequent in the evening so those that you see are leaving their places of employment or just walking through on their way home. The new electric lamps are starting to come on as the sky darkens quickly. You two walk side by side, sort of weaving on and off the street as carriages and a few electric motorcars pass by. You come to the end of this shopping area to find that the street is blocked off. There's a small crowd gathered around a barrier. A few Periphery officers stand between the crowd and the blocked off section. There are some horse-drawn carts with what looks like construction equipment behind them. “Move along, move along!” one of the officers shouts. Some of the crowd loses interest and leaves, while a few stay, standing on their toes to see the damage. As you get closer, you see a large hole in the road. The entire thing is blocked off, but it looks like you can turn the corner and maybe take a detour. Or you can talk to the officers or one of the people gathered at the barrier.

And thank you for the tag!

It's no longer Wednesday, but I was very busy working. So this picture has actually been left this way in progress while I was working, and now is the time when I both read this and return to that.

Rat orb (originally: Patkánygömb) 2025 Digital

I made this for the Rattober prompt number 31: pondering my orb rat (I'm not going in order). I suppose it could have been an abstract rat as well, but I have already filled that one. I made it in Blender, and the HDRI is from polyhaven.

Morning on a reedy lake (originally: Reggel nádas tavon) 2025 Digital (vectors)

I made this for Rattober, for the prompts 3. lake rat and 15. canoe rat. I was originally going to do this with acrylics, but somehow when I drew the sketch, I got it into my mind that I could do this with vectors, and I don't regret that.

The telling off (originally: Ejnye!) 2025 Ink on paper

"It's not my fault if the window stood in the way!"

I made this for Rattober, the 9th prompt: Brat (I'm not going in order). I was away today, so it took me a while to actually get back and upload it, but now here it is, still today (at least by my time zone it is).

Good morning, neighbour (originally: Jó reggelt, szomszéd úr) 2025 Acrylic on paper

I painted this for Rattober. Specifically this one is for the prompts 10: hello rat, and 22: the rat next door.

Rat poem (originally: Patkányvers) 2025 Ink on paper

I made this for Rattober prompt number 1, friend-shaped rat. (I'm not going in order.)

I have always wanted to write concrete poetry ever since I was maybe six and first encountered the phenomenon; but I was just never inspired to any specific concrete poem. Finally, the time has come. This poem came to my mind as I was falling asleep, and I quickly scribbled it down (to be written into shape later), and now here it is.

In case it's not legible:

This is rat: very sweet Little hands & little feet It can climb, it can play, It can have a happy day!

Blueberry rat (originally: Áfonyapatkány) 2025 Acrylic on paper

I made this painting for the 24th prompt of Rattober (I'm not going in order), which, just like the title of the painting, is blueberry rat. I was so worried that it wouldn't dry in time to upload today, but here it is now!

Repulsive (originally: Visszataszító) 2025 Ink on paper

I made this for Rattober: for prompt 5. stinky rat. Yes, I made emotional art even during rattober. And I will do it again.

Existing wrong is the original sin that one cannot help, that one can't get rid of, that one is taught to be ashamed of and regret, that one is told one needs to atone for, that one is taught one needs to try to erase and make oneself as small as possible; even then, one will never be acceptable: for as long as one exists, one will be surrounded by an invisible stench of wrong, one's existence will always be unpalatable, because once a rat, one can never be anything else than a rat, and for some reason that's bad and also one's own fault, at least so one is told.

(This is about a multitude of things.)

Exit from the rat tunnel (originally: Kijárat a patkányalagútból) 2025 Digital

This is my 6th day of Rattober. I made this for the prompts 2. accu-rat and 29. puzzle rat. I knew from the beginning that what I was desiring to make for these two (assuming I connect the prompts) is a rat-shaped tiling. But I wanted to put the tiling on something, preferably a curved surface, so that it could better be seen. And this is what I came up with. I built the scene in blender. HDRI and concrete texture are from polyhaven.

And here you may see the tiling itself without being put on anything. I drew it with vectors.

And the sketch for the tiling, when I designed it yesterday on grid paper:

Varicoloured shape (originally: Színes forma) 2025 Watercolour and ink on paper