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ArianaBlack 
these are so beautiful, kath! thank you for sharing the lil tidbits that go with each scene too, it's such a treat to be able to connect your stories with your illustrations
thank you, Ariana
I don't know why it took me so long to do something like this but I am glad that I finally took the plunge. Some days I just can't get my head to work with words and just feel in a fog, so it's nice to be able to explore these voices through another medium. Even color choices end up being things I may never have picked myself but their little muse is over here whispering 'give it a go'.
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oh its Erik ok the sprig of jacaranda flowers on the books looks really nice Kath
Thanks, Erik
I was trying to do that technique that Ern makes look so easy with her line art with flowers and plants. I feel like my wrist is holding my pen too stiffly to do the technique justice and I need to relinquish control a little. I do love working with my purple markers (there are about 4 different shades blended together here...maybe 5) so I for sure want to give the jacaranda flower another go sometime
❝ 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.