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This page already has color, but I’m doing some line cleanup – one of my favorite panels to draw for this page. :D Slightly older version in the full post: 

Unplanned Varré drawing from yesterday. I was pleased with the comic’s chapter 3 progress over the weekend, and rewarded myself by drawing Varré! Which I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I still have the other in-progress drawing of him from June I plan to finish at some point.  I ended up cropping this...Continue Reading

I’ve always wanted to do a study of Blademaster Diarmid from Heart of Thorns, because Carlyn Lim’s designs from this expansion are some of my favorite artworks from the Guild Wars franchise. Her concept designs for the “Nightmare Commanders” – which became the “Mordrem Commanders” in the live game – are some of the most...Continue Reading

For additional animation practices on this blog arranged chronologically, browse the “2D Animation” category here. Edit: August 16. 2025 Testing with a 24 fps framerate (previous tests are all 12 fps).  Original post below:  Some 2D animation practice to familiarize myself with some very basic fundamentals! Not finished by any means, mainly just trying to...Continue Reading

Edit August 13, 2025: Added the fullbody WIP composition! 



Anatomy practice! I've been practicing drawing anatomy construction from imagination this year, and this is one of those practices. So, please forgive me for any anatomical inaccuracies, as these are for practicing this type of anatomy construction drawing from imagination. 

I've been having fun running around in the "Untamed" build for my ranger, which I never knew how fun a spec it is to play (mainly because of the amazing vocal lines Brandon Bales recorded for it, haha - but also the main "unleashed" hammer skill is so fun and satisfying!). It gives me an excuse to finally use my favorite hammer skin - "Onus" - which I've never used before because I haven't enjoyed hammer skills on any character prior. I believe it is also a Halloween skin - so perhaps hopefully I can finish this drawing by this Halloween! 

Here's the full composition: 

Another silly animation test/practice. This is a small crop from a painting of my sylvari reaper I started a while ago, and it’s been on my back-burner to finish it sometime – dug it up today to practice more with Krita’s timeline/animating with frames instead, haha. 

This is a very, very rough test – but contemplating adding slight animation to the final page of chapter 2.  I should probably be using fade/opacity transitions for this and not frames, but, I both don’t know how to do that in Krita (yet, if the function is there), and I’m also partial to frame...Continue Reading

Felt like doing another “paintover” practice of one of my older paintings as a warm-up today – which I inevitably spent more time on than I intended. I wouldn’t consider this a “finished” painting, but I’d considered it “finished” as far as its intended practice. :D This is my “spellweaver” Nightmare Court sylvari from Guild...Continue Reading

This is a 2025 practice paintover of one of my older paintings of Trahearne from 2021. I’ll put the original at the end of the post, and you can flip between them for comparison (and judge me on how much I’ve improved or not since, haha).  I remember thinking this fan theory quite fun at...Continue Reading

Small preview from “Nightmare’s Embrace,” my second Guild Wars 2 comic I’ve been chipping away at here and there. This is an early color test from a few months ago.  Originally, I was planning to start working on “Nightmare’s Embrace” after I’ve finished “The Harbinger’s Path.” I might still do this, but I’m also thinking...Continue Reading

Trahearne and Malyck pixel art from 2022, when I became enamored with Aesprite. It’s still one of my favorite art programs, and I’d love to dabble more with it sometime. 

Progress shot of Corveil from a longer painting. I have a few personal work paintings/illustrations that have been hovering at this ~90% progress state for a while. I keep telling myself I’ll finish them after I make some progress with the comic, but I’d like to try and figure out a way to work them...Continue Reading

I’ve had this drawing of Arquel around for several years, that I first did during one of the days for “Paint-ober” in 2021. This was a daily painting challenge I made up for myself during October of that year (if it existed prior, I don’t think I saw anyone participating that year). I was inspired...Continue Reading

Edit July8, 2025:  Wider crop showing the hat-wearing six-eyed bird, who I think is a crow, though I’m not 100% certain.  Original post below: Painting WIP of “Jinu” I may or may not finish. Friends convinced me to watch Kpop Demon Hunters over the weekend, and I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as...Continue Reading

Scroll down to see more recent previews!  I think I’ll make this post for any page previews I don’t end up making a separate post for – starting with this preview crop from chapter 2, page 3. Will add to this post as needed! One more preview from page 3!  July 1, 2025: Page 4...Continue Reading

This page went through a number of changes and deliberations while I worked on it, and I wanted to share some of the process and thoughts that went into it.  First, some process steps below! The first 2 are fairly early on in the process, though further along than the “layout” step (which are barely...Continue Reading

The first page for The Harbinger’s Path: Chapter 2 is now up!  This was the first page I finished for chapter 2. I finished it a while ago, and have been working on finalizing the rest of chapter 2’s pages since. Because of this (as I should have foresaw) – when I saw the page...Continue Reading

I realized while typing the title for this post that it’s been exactly a month since I posted with the first time I drew Varré, haha. I did the sketch for this last week while working on the comic pages, and I’d like to finish it sometime after the second chapter is a little more...Continue Reading

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...Continue Reading

A recently finished Guild Wars 2 painting for Enzo! This one is in the “Tier 2: Watercolor-style” of commissions. A few process steps below: A sort of fun things about this one is, in the time between when I was asked to do this commission and when I could begin, this time span is when...Continue Reading

One more panel preview! I’d say Chapter 2 is a little less than half-finished now. I might update this post again later today with more progress. I’ve kept much of the process saved in the files, but I’m finding it smoother to continue progressing the pages and sorting through what to share later on. I...Continue Reading