The Harbinger’s Path: Panel Previews + New Pages June 23 | June 18, 2025

Crop of a Trahearne from Guild Wars 2, roughly drawn in a comic style. The firstborn sylvari is glaring up fiercely, as glowing amber sap-blood streaks across the far half of his face.
“The Harbinger’s Path” | Trahaerne panel preview (in-progress / artwork not final)

Wanted to do an update post! Chapter 2 for The Harbinger’s Path is about 85% complete now. I finished the first “refinement” pass for all the pages last Thursday, and began doing the “final refinement” pass for the first half of the chapter (if you’re confused about what I’m talking about here, I go into my rough process in this post). 

While working on them last night, I realized that because the files themselves are spreads – with 2 pages per file – I thought I had done half as much progress of the “final pass” as I’ve made so far. I realized I had double the amount of progress as what it had been feeling like for the past few days. I feel very silly, but this means I am confident I can begin posting new pages for chapter 2 next Monday, June 23rd! 

The previews in this post are updates on some of the in-progress panels from this post from last week and this post from earlier in the month (still works-in-progress here).

Malyck and Trahearne from Guild Wars 2. Malyck intimates a restrained Trahearne, as Trahearne glares defiantly back. High-contrast rim lighting has been added since the earlier work-in-progress crop from last week.
“The Harbinger’s Path” | Malyck & Trahearne panel preview (in-progress / artwork not final)

I’m going back and forth as to whether adding Malyck’s luminescence here adds or not – for the scene itself, I think it could work either way in terms of what it says about the character. 

Comic-style drawing with strong light and dark contrast. Malyck extends his hand to the side of Trahearne's jaw, the latter bound by thorned vines.
“The Harbinger’s Path” | Malyck & Trahearne panel preview (in-progress / artwork not final)

About 80% refined. 

Black-and-white version of the previous drawing.
“The Harbinger’s Path” | Malyck & Trahearne panel preview (in-progress / artwork not final) | Black-and-white version

This a small panel in the comic itself, but one of my personal favorites. I really like the contrast it has in black and white (though it will be in color in the comic itself). I feel like it’s working better in the black-and-white version – still working out how to convey a similar feeling when color is added. 


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