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Felt like sharing a small in-progress preview of a panel I'm refining today. It's Caydren!

I spent much of the tail end of April finalizing The Harbinger's Path print version, and wanted to share some photos of one of the book's proofs from during this time! I ended up spending much more time than I'd planned refining the print version, and despite telling myself not to do this excessively - I ended up manually adjusting or making art refinements to every single page, haha. On the plus side, I'm pleased with how it's turned out! I think the extra time was worth it, and I hope this comes across to anyone who holds the final book in their hands!

All photos in this post are graciously taken by my printer (many, many thanks to them again for being so wonderful to work with!). 

The rest of the photos & post are below, along with one or two higher-resolution photos:

My time has been occupied by trying to squeeze in as many final edits to the book as I'm able to - which has involved some painting, and made me feel like like doing a small paintover of one of my older Laranthir artworks today. I'm not sure if I've ever posted the original before, because I wasn't happy with how it turned out. Above is the paintover from this morning, and the original version is in the full post below: 

Finished my circle cut for Manga Ichiba! These are used as a way for the convention organizers to show who the participating doujin tables are. It's carried over from Comiket ("comic markets") in Japan. In JP, doujinshi are much more commonly created and shared - compared to here in NA, where we don't have an established doujin culture (...yet!). 

I was playing around with some brush settings last week. This is one of the color tests (the other is Corveil, of course - I'd like to see if I can make him more presentable at some point). 

Recently finished commission for Skylark celebrating this year's anniversary with their partner! Their DnD characters - Atticus in the back, a solider; Osiris up front, a sorcerer; and Pontos - Atticus' trusty griffon! 

Here the trio fly high above the skies, Osiris slightly hesitant at first, as he isn't used to flight as Atticus and Pontos are! 

Process images below:

Hello! I'm here with an update about The Harbinger's Path print books. Progress is going steady, and I'll have another update later this month (I'm about to order proofs!).

I wanted to send a quick update now, because we have our first look for The Harbinger's Path print quality!

Read more in the full post! (This post only available to those receiving print email updates.)

Updated art of Arquel being held up by a new shrimp buddy!
Photo credit: Juan Arzola (@ancientbuho)

In preparing for the convention this Saturday, an unexpected thing I realized is it gave me the perfect excuse to update a few artworks I've been meaning to eventually do, but haven't had the opportunity to get around to before now. 

You might have seen the above artwork of Arquel here and there. I've posted a crop of it before, and I use it as a profile photo for some of my socials. I quite like this painting of him, but it's been unfinished for a while. Other projects have arrested my time. While still not entirely finished, entirely because of this convention, I refined it to the point where I was comfortable printing it for a contact card. Especially since these are small by definition (for scale, look to the pen in the background of the above photo).



Here are the 3 artworks I chose for these contact cards! This photo was taken in more neutral lighting (the photo at the top of this post was during a time of glorious sunlight), and are more color-accurate to how Arquel printed (the blues!). These cards are for the convention this Saturday. I decided to print these because originally, I thought I would only have 1 Duskbirds Comics zine to show. I was thinking my table was at risk of looking rather barren, and was trying to come up with ways to have it look a bit less sparse. 

My first and easiest thought I had were contact cards (or "business cards" - though it feels funny calling them that since I'm using these for conventions and not as a business contact). Business cards are easy to print, and I'm always very happy with the quality from the printer I use for them (it's Moo!). I haven't printed their square business cards before, but was always a bit curious about them. This seemed like the perfect opportunity, because aside from the side with contact info, I was interested in these potentially being good art samples I could show - especially for the side with The Harbinger's Path cover on it, since Harbinger's print version will be finished for May's convention, and not this April one. 

Photo from the stationary show during a moment of downtime.

Duskbirds Comics in print!

Wanted to write a quick post about the printed Duskbirds Comics zines!

Let's start with book specs: 
Zine specs: 

Duskbirds Vol. 1: "Lighthearted Comics" 

Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (slightly wider than A5)
Page count: 28 pages 
Comic count: 23 individual Duskbirds Comics 
Extras: Bonus Duskbirds illustrations and sketches in print for the first time (4 artworks) 
Binding: Saddle-stich zines




Duskbirds Vol. 2: "Introspective Comics" 

Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (slightly wider than A5)
Page count: 20 pages
Comic count: 14 individual Duskbirds Comics 
Extras: Bonus Duskbirds illustrations and sketches in print for the first time (4 from vol 1., + 3 extra artworks at the very end of the zine) 
Binding: Saddle-stich zines



And a few photos! 

Guild Wars 2 Commission | Tier 2: "Watercolor-style" | Final

One more work to archive here! This is a Tier 2: "Watercolor-style" commissioned painting from 2024. 

Detail Crop

Below please find a few process sheets from this commission! 

Guild Wars 2 "speedpainting" commission

I've been meaning to occasionally update this blog with some art I haven't posted here before! Starting with a few Guild Wars 2 Tier 3 "speedpainting" commissions from a while back. These are a selection of my favorites from 2023!

The other reason I wanted to post these is because I took timelapses of several pieces from the 2023 batch of "speedpaintings." I'm planning to post the timelapse for the first and third artworks in this post (the fiery charr and the confident-looking sylvari). 

I recently finished editing the timelapse videos for those two, and will post them to YouTube soon. I'll update this post when those videos are up! 

Quick sketch of my reaper to test some brush settings - I tried to digitally recreate the feel of using my favorite ink in my fountain pen, haha (Pilot Iroshizuku's "sui-gyoku" - "emerald green"). 

A few art process videos from over the years! Organized into 3 sections: Process videos, Process clips, and Real-time drawing process. Process Videos GW2 Charr Engineer Speedpainting (Commission) Clip length: 1:38 timelapse (720p) Guild Wars 2 Guardian Speedpainting (Commission) Clip length: 1:29 timelapse (720p) GW2 Sylvari Engineer Speedpainting (Commission) Clip length: 1:03 timelapse (720p), start-to-finish...Continue Reading

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, I was reminded this year of the time I drew my sylvari reaper playing a tin whistle (which is also known as the “Irish flute”).  The original painting is from 2019, and was part of a collaborative project organized by Angelique van der Mee. Several artists drew our own...Continue Reading

At the tail-end of formatting the Duskbirds zines – indulged briefly earlier with some imagination-drawing anatomy-practice with my sylvari reaper. I think I’m slightly more comfortable drawing torsos from imagination now. I need to do more neck studies in the future. 

I was chatting about PLCAF with my friend, and remarking about how my table is likely going to be more bare than the average. She then suggested I bring a few prints, which I hadn’t considered. I’d only been thinking about potential books/mini-zines I could bring, since this is an indie comics convention.  I then...Continue Reading

        I recently learned I will be at another convention next month! (Early April) This one is smaller than Manga Ichiba at Fanime. In my focus with getting The Harbinger’s Path ready for Manga Ichiba, I forgot that I applied to this second convention. Similar with Manga Ichiba, I applied to this...Continue Reading

Ended up adding a bit more to this Cerus painting I originally sketched during the launch week for Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure – which launched on August 23, 2023. According to the filename, I did the original sketch on August 29, 2023. I have a vivid impression of the starting parts of...Continue Reading

Crop from a work-in-progress painting I was fiddling with yesterday to warm-up my hand. 

I couldn’t resist having a go at drawing Clint after hearing about the Stardew Valley 10-year anniversary stream earlier today, and hearing who the new marriage candidates are. :D Forgive me if his body type isn’t accurate – since he’s a blacksmith, I imagined him having a husky but muscular build (banging at that anvil...Continue Reading