❝ Sketchtember "Green"



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inspiration SSRPG character Becky Rasting (sweetpinkpixie) & featuring Sam Gusey (Cassirin)
materials Ohuhu brush tip markers, copic fine inking pens 0.3 & 0.1, Gelly R@ll White 1.0 & 0.8

Getting the prompt 'green' for Becky was another almost no brainer seeing as Herbology is her favorite subject and one of her best. But as easy as it was to associate it with her passion, I didn't just want to draw her with a bunch of plants. At first I thought about sketching the interior of her apartment she has with her best friend Cathair O'Connel [iekenstein]...which looks more like a greenhouse than it does an apartment as they are both green thumbs and fans of the leafy green friends...and sat down to sketch that. I got no further than a potted succulent when another vision came to mind and it was just too cute to pass up.

Inspired by an RP event at the Zap-a-Snitch booth at the 600 Years of Diagon Alley celebration in which Sam (Becky's boyfriend) couldn't remember the word 'succulent' so he called the plants 'sucky' and got himself into a moderately sticky situation with the vines at the booth, I drew a little scene of them after he eventually won her the plant. Sam is a delightfully grumpy teddy bear and I just imagine him just not being able to let go of the situation while Becky just continued to giggle because she finds his sour side to be incredibly endearing at times.

Once I finished coloring this, I had instant regret that I did not use the prompt 'literal' sense and kept my entire color scheme to just greens alone. Maybe even done the pencil sketch in a green colored pencil. Could have been a real interesting challenge to use all my green markers in that way. There is also something cute about the only green item being the succulent itself too.

Iiiiiiiiiiiin any case, that finishes up the first page of the challenge 4 challenges down and 26 more to go.


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