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Spellweaver Caydren (WIP) | January 7, 2026

Posted on January 7, 2026

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

Posted on December 19, 2025

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.

Shaded version I decided I didn’t like as much as flats

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.

Murkoph Partial Paintover (Warm-up) | December 18, 2025

Posted on December 18, 2025

Fan art of Murkoph from Unsounded where we see half of his smirking face. — 2025 partial paintover of a 2013 painting | Cropped

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 linking it, because much of the older art on this blog I have trouble looking at. :p I probably shouldn’t paint over this one; both because it is so very old, and also because of its age, I don’t currently have access to the original resolution file (this is roughly painted over the web version, which you can probably tell from artifacting here and here). Additionally, at the time, I think this painting turned out well for where I was back then (I remember learning a lot while drawing this one).

This is definitely one of the ones where I should just start a new drawing – which I do want to do, and have been wanting to do for a while! I’ll hopefully get around to it in 2026.

For now, these paintovers are a relaxing way for me to warm up, So here he is!

Edit: 3:24 pm

I apparently have no self-control, and added a bit more to him. Full composition in the full post – I called it a “WIP” on the art, but I don’t know whether I’ll further it more:

Malyck-Trahearne Sketch | December 17, 2025

Posted on December 17, 2025

Edit 10:33 pm:

Touched them up a bit more!

Original post below:

Trahearne Wintersday Sketches | December 9, 2025

Posted on December 9, 2025

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).