One more work to archive here! This is a Tier 2: “Watercolor-style” commissioned painting from 2024.
Below are a few process sheets from this commission (with client name omitted, as since this was from a while ago, I cannot quite recall whether this commissioner wished to remain anonymous).
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 3 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 process videos are up!
I’m undecided about whether I’ll post the timelapse for the middle artwork (with the Ascalonian sword – one of my favorite weapon skins!), even though this is personally one of my favorite speedpaintings (I learned much about brushwork doing this one). I discovered while editing the clips that there’s a small portion in the middle that didn’t record. It’s very short, but it’s one of the parts I personally would want to see drawn (it’s when I draw the shoulder shapes), and I feel like it’s less interesting without this portion in there.
Timelapse video above
I searched all through my frames and sadly it is nowhere! It’s just lost. I’ll look at the video again to see if it’s still interesting to watch, but argh! I wish I had it there, because that one was so fun to draw, and I’d have liked to see that part drawn too.
I’ll again update this post with the process videos when they’re 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.
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
Painting Sheik from The Legend of Zelda
Clip length: 7:15 timelapse, start-to-finish
Shows comic process from rough sketch to the finished page.
Clip length: 3:29 timelapse, start-to-finish
You can view VoD’s of me painting two illustrations streamed live on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel in the links below.
They show 2 hours of real-time drawing for each painting, for a total of 4 hours. The illustrations were later finished off-stream.
Second show
[ Part 1 ] (1 hr 34 min)
[ Part 2 ] (23 min)
First show
[ Part 1 ] (55 min)
[ Part 2 ] (49 min)
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 characters in support of the “#Love4ArenaNet” hastag, which to my memory was a spur-of-the-moment way to show a little support for the devs at the studio who were laid off at the time. It was a rough time for the studio, and a very sweet idea by Angelique and everyone else who was involved with the idea. Angelique then made a lovely composition involving everyone’s contributed artwork.
For this 2026 paintover warmup, after I drew the musical notes (which aren’t in the original), I idly thought perhaps I should have drawn “Fear Not This Night.” But for the holiday, I wanted to draw one of my favorite tunes I enjoy playing on tin whistle, instead. I would be very impressed if anyone can recognize it from the music notes, and I mentioned on socials that if anyone does guess it, I’d do a sketch for the – because it’s such an esoteric bit of knowledge, I would marvel if someone could recognize it!
Tin whistle is my favorite instrument, though sadly I rarely play it now since moving into an apartment. It’s why I moved more into practicing guitar – I’ve always liked guitar, too, but used to play tin whistle more often. Guitar has the benefit of being able to play at quieter volumes, as necessary!
In the original 2019 version, I drew my reaper, though this paintover is only showing a crop of the full-body art. I did add more to the full-body in today’s paintover, but it’s not really presentable. Maybe if I have a chance, I’ll add it to this post at a later time.
2019 version in the full post below because I’m not keen on how it looks when I saw it again today, haha: