Guild Wars 2

Spellweaver Caydren (WIP) | January 7, 2026

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In-progress drawing of a Nightmare Court sylvari elementalist. He has a fiery, charred-bark color scheme, and holds a thorned vine whip. 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 Caydren,” one of three main characters in the “Nightmare’s Embrace” mini-comic I plan to finish this year. Caydren is a Nightmare Court elementalist. I have always enjoyed the idea of the thorned vine whip weapons Nightmare Court NPC’s in the GW2 game use, and that I don’t believe are accessible to us as players (though it’s been a few years, correct me if this is no longer the case) – so, what better reason to vicariously enjoy this, than by fitting one of my characters with one in comic form? :D 

This drawing is from several months ago, and I had hoped to finish it by now, but other projects have been arresting my time. I felt like showing its current progress for now, instead! I plan to finish this one, though in some ways it is mainly a “concept drawing,” to see how he looked with the horned vine whip. 

Malyck-Trahearne Sketch | December 19, 2025

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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 was worked on earlier this year, which makes me think this type of workflow might work for how I draw, 

Though, to be fair, I’ve essentially been warming-up this month by making more progress with “The Harbinger’s Path” Chapter 3 pages. Doing line clean-up/refinement, or blocking in rough drafts, seems to be effective for me to work on before doing commission painting. 

Maybe I should have made a post for all the “Wintersday Trahearne-Malyck” sketches for this month. :p In fairness, I didn’t foresee I’d do more than the first one with Trahearne holding that candy cane. 

GW2 Commission for Kyris | December 14, 2025

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Canach loosely embraces Akoni as she places her hand against the side of his face. Cherry blossom petals gust gently around them.
“Canach and Akoni” | GW2 “comics-style” commission

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 doing it on commission. I’m grateful to Kyris for suggesting it, as I’m pretty pleased with how this style turned out in her drawing! 

Detail close-up of a feminine sylvari with a blue color scheme.
“Akoni Wolfsbane” | Detail close-up

I’m especially happy with how Akoni’s face turned out. I think it is one of my favorite feminine faces I’ve ever drawn! 

A few process images below: 

Initial sketches.
One of the sketch rounds with revisions after feedback!
Work-in-progress lineart after the composition was decided on through the sketch revisions.
The final piece once more!

Thanks again to Kyris for commissioning me! 

Trahearne Wintersday Sketches | December 9, 2025

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It's Trahearne licking a candy cane. Loose lineart drawing. 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 in the full post, because I think the shoulder is a little off (this is another anatomy construction practice from imagination drawing). Edit: Updated the 3/4 version it slightly; I guess I’ll leave it without a readmore now, though there are still off things about it – still a sketch/potential WIP). 

Edit December 18, 2025 

Adding one more. :p 

Drawing of Trahearne looking down toward the viewer. Larger crop in the full post: 

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GW2 Reaper Sketch | December 2, 2025

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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 my Guild Wars 2 reaper/necromancer.

I can’t believe it’s December already! A month or two ago, I was expecting December to be on the more relaxing side. But what’s tended to happen every year now, is it inevitably becomes filled up with various events as the year draws to a close. I’m hoping I can still finish the progress on the personal projects I wanted to do – which is mainly the page updates for The Harbinger’s Path comic.

I was out of town for about a week in November, and I was originally sightly concerned I’d have to put the comic updates on a hiatus for about 3 updates’ worth. I learned I’d be heading out of town a little on the later side, and I scrambled to finish about 3 pages a week earlier than I had originally scheduled. These were pages 15 – 17.

Once I learned of this trip, I drafted a schedule for how much time I had and how many pages I’d have to finish to be able to still continue with page updates while out of town. I was leaning toward announcing a hiatus for that week/those pages, but to my surprise, I was able to finish the pages early. This makes me think I’m probably too lenient on myself when it comes to project management for my personal projects when I haven’t hard deadlines, haha. 

Anyway, with all the new events that are now planned for December (mostly holiday-related irl ones), I am hoping I will be able to still keep my intended schedule for this chapter’s updates. But December has a good deal more going on than November did – which isn’t surprising, and something I should have anticipated earlier than now. I am slightly wary that I might have to actually do a small hiatus this month. It’s still too early to say, but I don’t want the quality of the pages to suffer if time truly becomes an issue. 

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