❝ Sketchtember "Books"



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inspiration SSRPG character Paige Harden ( née Skeeter) (sweetpinkpixie)
materials Ohuhu brush tip markers, copic fine inking pens 0.3

Yet another obvious one from the random generator, Paige is my little author (to date she has two poetry books published and a handful or articles and short stories in various magazines and anthologies) and it was a complete coincidence that her name is a homophone of 'page'. As a student at Hogwarts, she was always writing in her journal (she had a few for various purposes) and read often...so there is a very obvious connection between her and books. I did not just want to draw a stack of books and leave it at that, even if they are meant to represent her own journals, so on top of the open book is a sprig of jacaranda flowers. Another totally unintentional coincidence is the symbolism of these particular flowers which I happened to stumble upon long after I had started playing her as a Hufflepuff first year.

Paige is also a Seer and has struggled with this ability for the majority of her life since it began manifesting itself. At first she was drawn to some 'power spots' of prophets, oracles, and seers from the past...she first found a calling to Greece and the Temple of Apollo. In Harry Potter, we know that magic always leaves traces, so when Paige visited the temple her Inner Eye resonated with the ancient energies of the Oracle of Delphi. There are also some loose connections with the goddess Athena, who is a goddess Paige always felt a connection to...mostly because she was always depicted with an owl and owls are her favorite animal.

Years later, while struggling even more with her Sight and who she was, Paige began feeling a connection to Argentina for some reason and spent time volunteering there during the summer. The allure to the country only grew over time and once I started doing some research into things I found out about the jacaranda flowers and how they bloom in November and Buenos Aires its just covered in a blanket of purple. Paige has always loved flowers (one of her best subjects in school was Herbology) so this was a really nice little coincidence to stumble upon. Paige is also extremely interested in the language of flowers, so I naturally had to look up information on these flowers and what I ended up finding was just...I couldn't have planned it better if I even tried Turns out these flowers have a connection to an Amazonian goddesss who is sort of an equivalent to Athena...and so it was Paige's Inner Eye also guiding her in this direction and towards another sort of power spot to help her come to terms with her Sight.

I was absolutely mind blown that all these little hunches and instincts for where to take her in adulthood accumulated into this completely coincidental series of deep cross cultural and continental connections from ancient civilizations and just...RPGing is a crazy ride, isn't it?

❝ Sketchtember "Clown"



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inspiration SSRPG character Joshua Miller (sweetpinkpixie)
materials Ohuhu brush tip markers, copic multiliner (brown) 0.3

Josh was a character I received from the one and only ArianaBlack a character swap event during the 2019 Wrackspurts and Roleplays event. One of the many things she is known infamously for is her insistence that when having a bowl of cereal you must pour it milk first. As a bit of homage to her, as I received him from her, I made one of his character quirks that he pours everything milk first...including tea. Right around the time of his creation there was a little meme floating around asking how people take their coffee/tea and there was a color gradient based on how much milk you do or do not put into it. Such an outcry was had from our UK members about the lighter shades of tea...that it was just too easy to make my confused and disaster prone American nugget one of THOSE people. So now it is a running gag with him that he never knows how to brew a proper cup of tea (and many of attempted to teach him...but he just always gets it oh so wrong).

So, nothing (er...actually...let's not go so far as to say nothing ) makes Joshua Alphonse Miller look as much like a clown as a cup of tea.

This doodle shows the triumphant return of nubs for hands and an attempt at doing a different form of chibi mouth - the lip bite. I think my favorite part of it is the coloring and shading on his skin. I also gave my other line art pens a go and the brown really does soften up things a bit. I have grey and magenta as well, so you can expect to see those pop up at some point. I never thought about different colored line art other than black until I saw DrawingWiffWaffles use these same brown pens and it was just like

For the record, science has proven that there are more health benefits to pouring your milk first when it comes to tea and having the leaves steep in the tea. But that's for neither here nor there.

❝ Sketchtember "Prince"



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inspiration SSRPG character Sachiko Shiradou-Morrison and once was Black (sweetpinkpixie)
materials Ohuhu brush tip markers, copic fine inking pens 0.3

So...Sachiko. High fashion model located in Paris who is incredibly high strung, selfish, and pretty much emotionally closed off. Once divorced and a true empress at self sabotage when it comes to any and all of her relationships, it is crazy to look back at the little girl she was when I first started playing her. Born in the Leaky Cauldron (her dad was my shopkeeper character and somewhere in the archives there are posts of him running through the streets yelling about his girlfriend Harley (then assistant at the Leaky and played by pundantic) going into labor. As a little girl, she loved pink and dreamed of all the ways her life could unfold like a fairy tale. She would dress up her dad's pathetic looking white cat to look like the Beast and the family dalmation would turn into a handsome steed with a prince riding on his back. She was a super girly girl, but she also liked catching frogs and getting muddy in the process. She was the sort of little girl to find a frog and give it a kiss just to see if it would turn into a prince. She is also in the Diagon Alley archives doing just that at a festival at some point in her pre school age days.

And then...the fairy tale came to an end and she stopped believing in romance and true love's kiss. Jaded, petty, and toxic, Sachiko is ...

I am very pleased with how the little frog turned out as well as her profile. I usually only draw my chibi's head on or with a slight tilt of the head, so it was a little lsdkfjslfjs doing so in profile and getting that little pucker to work. But I am the biggest fan of the frog and his little crown The Ohuhu skin tones set is truly amazing and I love how they blend (there are three shades use for her skin).

And with that...page two of my sketchbook for this challenge is complete:

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❝ Sketchtember "Cocktail"



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inspiration SSRPG character Eiji Rasting (sweetpinkpixie) & featuring Missa Renaldi (Samia)
materials Ohuhu brush tip markers, copic multiliner (brown, gray, magenta) 0.3, white uni-ball signo pen um-153

This is another RP moment inspired piece. The prompt of cocktail for Eiji was easy to make instant references to potions and alchemy, his forte, but when approaching this particular piece I really wanted to focus on something revolving these subjects of interest that really really stuck out and impacted Eiji and his development...which instantly brought to mind a scene from the early days of his relationship with Missa.

Eiji was known for being a very gifted potioneer even as a first year, but one year his little sister (Becky Rasting, previously featured here) broke into his private potions stores and misread his coded labeling while taking a potion. She had meant to make a Cheering Concoction to slip into the dough of the cookies she was making everyone for Valentine's Day (naively just wishing everyone to have a happy day) and took instead a love potion...mass chaos ensued. Eventually things were pinned back to Eiji seeing as Becky was terrible at potions and the fact that Eiji had a love potion in his possession sent Missa's mind in a tizzy. Young love is overwhelming on its own and especially for a couple as co-dependent as Miss and Eiji are, and for Missa these intense and new emotions developing so quickly caused her to question whether they really were real or whether, MAYBE, Eiji had fabricated them all and that was why he was in possession of a love potion.

So...Missa asked.

The above depiction looks rather comical, which is more a reflection of them now looking back (thankfully they can laugh at themselves....ish) rather than how it felt in the moment because it was intense. Eiji was insulted and put off by the sheer notion that Missa would even think him capable of doing something so deceitful and Missa was so overwhelmed with how strongly she was feeling. The, uh, heated argument turned out to be the first time Eiji would say the words 'I love you' to Missa and he poured the rest of his love potion out and promised never to brew one (just to see if he could manage it) again.

Just like with the time I drew Eiji for Seektober last year...I love how his hair turned out He absolutely hates how dramatic his surprise and upset look, since he really does not emote that way, but it basically is how he had been feeling on the inside during the whole conversation. Missa's little scramble egg eyes are a favorite aspect too and I just love that style to depict weeping eyes. And again, as always, praise be to my Ohuhu skin tones set because...I am obsessed.