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I’ve been idly wanting to figure out a look for a new Nightmare Court necromancer character I’ve been thinking about recently. He’s in the same setting as “Nightmare’s Embrace,” but isn’t a major character (he likely won’t feature in the mini-comic later this year). Different from my existing sylvari characters, the idea for him arose...Continue Reading

Happy New Year! I hope your year is starting off well. 

I have exciting news! Earlier this month, I learned I was accepted into Manga Ichiba at Fanime this year, the first-ever doujinshi-focused ("indie fan comics") event for NA.

I applied with The Harbinger's Path, and I'm pleased to announce I will be self-publishing a very limited print run of my "Trahearne-Malyck doujinshi" comic for this event. It will include all 3 completed chapters (50+ pages), and I hope to also add some bonus material for this print version. (More about this to come.)

I’ve been meaning to try my hand at attempting a simple arrangement of “Out of the Dream” from Guild Wars 2, which is one of my favorite melodies from the game.  Sat down to give it a go this afternoon when I needed to give my eyes a break, and came up with this so...Continue Reading

I can finally show this commission! :D  I wanted to also show a few detail close-ups; I’ll update this post at a later point, when I have time to crop and export those!  For now, two three WIP process pages are below. Some text is omitted, as aside from Achyrd, the rest of the characters...Continue Reading

I’ve been meaning to update The Harbinger Path index page with a banner header for a while, and finally had a chance to today!  I mainly wanted to change it because I always thought the full cover wrap-around looked a bit clunky in this screen format (my mind envisioned it as a wallpaper or book...Continue Reading

Super rough Cadeyrn warm-up! I’ve been wanting to sketch the ending portion of Ree Soesbee’s “Dream and Nightmare” passages, particularly the final one describing Cadeyrn after he’s founded the Nightmare Court. The specific portion reads:  Cadeyrn lounged on his throne with a careless, prideful slouch. A crown of golden vine glittered on his forehead as...Continue Reading

Happy New Year! I have so much I want to post, but those will take me a little more time to write (I’ve had very little time in the start of the new year, though some exciting news to share later!) – I wanted to post something quick in the meantime!  Work-in-progress drawing of “Spellweaver...Continue Reading

  It’s been a while since I did an end-of-year art summary! I tried to show a variety, as it could have easily been mostly comic pages this year. The Harbinger’s Path was definitely my main creative fixation for 2025. :D  I didn’t realize until counting just now, but I finished exactly 50 comic pages...Continue Reading

I did this warm-up sketch a few days ago (the b&w one below), and added color today as another quick warm-up. I want to consider doing more warm-ups which add upon previous warm-ups, as I think I’m more personally satisfied with the results. This is also how the 2d animation with the both of them...Continue Reading

Had the urge to do some warm-up sketching by partially painting over this ancient Murkoph drawing I did ages and ages ago. Murkoph, of course, is from the wonderful Unsounded webcomic!  Just a crop of the face – the original is about chest-and-up. The original is on this blog somewhere. I’m going to refrain from...Continue Reading

Edit 10:33 pm: Touched them up a bit more!  Original post below:

Eric Barone’s (“ConcernedApe”) announcement today of a new, upcoming major Stardew Valley update (v 1.7) reminded me of a painting I started during the last major update, the 1.6 update when winter outfits were added. Before the patch went live, ConcernedApe teased two portraits for the winter outfits – one which showed Sebastian!  I love...Continue Reading

A Guild Wars 2 commission for Kyris finished earlier this month! This was an especially fun one, as Kyris asked me to try a commission in the style I’ve been drawing for The Harbinger’s Path webcomic. I’ve grown to love drawing in this style over this past year, but hadn’t thought too much about potentially...Continue Reading

Spurred from a conversation with Jasmine on bluesky yesterday where she said, “trahearne is back and he’s santa– 🧑‍🎄” – which gave me a variety of amusing mental images I immediately wished to draw.  This is a warm-up sketch that I might finish another time.  This is 3/4-body in the full composition – putting it...Continue Reading

New pages will resume in January 2026!  Ah! The dreaded hiatus! I was hoping I’d be able to continue The Harbinger’s Path update schedule until Chapter 3’s conclusion. When I originally planned the page schedule, I had more time during November & December than what ended up happening. There was a point in November where...Continue Reading

Ever wondered where those gorgeous prints you see in artist alley conventions are printed? Or do you have commissioned artwork you’d like printed for your personal use, but wondered where to print them? I was always curious about this – and a few years ago, I learned a little more about it!  These are adapted...Continue Reading

Edit: A few more versions:  I’m not sure if I prefer the earlier version to these. I started painting over in the earlier version, and in this version, I tried tinkering with the lineart layer more. I’m leaning toward this version because the drafting has a better foundation here.  Original post below: Small sketch of...Continue Reading

Yesterday’s page of The Harbinger’s Path shares similarities with the earliest Trahearne art I ever painted – which made me want to scrounge them up and post here! I probably never posted them on their own to this blog, though they are in the Trahearne & Malyck compilation archive (which as of this post, is...Continue Reading

I just returned from being out of a town for a bit! I wasn’t able to do any drawing while away, so this is a warm-up drawing to have my hands become used to the swing of things again.  I randomly had this image of Arquel holding Corveil like this soon after waking up this...Continue Reading

Warm-up sketch. He has clothes now!  A very loose, additional paper sketch in the full post: 

Corveil from a painting I’ve been knocking around on the side! Another construction practice from imagination from a bit ago – last month, to be precise. This might be a potential WIP (the full composition is full body), but I’m undecided yet on whether I’d take this further or not.