Apparently, it is the annual Monster Week in TTRPG circles, this year celebrating the fae. In honor of that, I carved another eraser, this time with a soot sprite.

The susuwatari, or soot sprites, are a fabrication of famed animator Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. They appears in My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away as tiny golfball-sized spirits of soot or dust.

My vision for this was easy to sketch and a little more challenging to carve, but it came out recognizable.

A rectangular pink rubber eraser with a soot sprite ship carved onto one face, the design highlighted in black laying face-up next to an imprint from the stamp on a piece of paper. The sprite is a cartoonish character, a fuzzy black ball with two simple eyes, and legs and arms that are simple curved lines. It is holding up a five-pointed star over its head.
Soot Sprite Eraser Stamp
A rectangular pink rubber eraser with a soot sprite ship carved onto one face, the design highlighted in black laying face-up next to an imprint from the stamp on a piece of paper. The sprite is a cartoonish character, a fuzzy black ball with two simple eyes, and legs and arms that are simple curved lines. It is holding up a five-pointed star over its head.
Soot Sprite Eraser Stamp

20 second stamping video on YouTube.

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