Edit 10:33 pm:
Touched them up a bit more!
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Sketches & Studies
Trahearne Wintersday Sketches | 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).
Edit December 18, 2025
Adding one more. :p
Larger crop in the full post:
GW2 Reaper Sketch | December 2, 2025
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.
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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.
Early Trahearne Paintings | November 27, 2025
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 a bit out of date/hasn’t been updated for a while).
These were both painted in 2015 – the top one started in August, and the one below November 2. I only know this because I usually include the creation date in the filename, which I’m glad I did here, because otherwise I would have misremembered the bottom drawing as older than the top drawing. They were also both initially WIP’s, but I ended up starting new projects with him instead of finishing these particular ideas (which you can see in that compilation archive – as well as this year’s comic project!).
One of my favorite ways to imagine Trahearne is how his travels and studies in Orr might have gone. This is one of the most interesting aspects of his character, for me, and I think it’s partially because those adventures of his weren’t explored in-depth in the story. Which makes it great fun for us to think about what experiences he might have had!
These earlier paintings leaned heavily into his “scholar” background, as from what I remember, this was emphasized more during the sylvari personal story – I started playing the game in 2014, and didn’t play the sylvari personal story for several months afterward – so these drawings are heavily influenced by playing the Zhaitan arc relatively recently.
Additionally, if you recall, Heart of Thorns released October 23, 2015. Which means the first painting was painted before and in anticipation of its launch, and the second after I played the Heart of Thorns story. In the full composition for this second one, Malyck is sitting next to him. They’re also meant to be back in the Grove. I am pretty sure I remember starting this painting as a sort of way to cope with how Heart of Thorns concluded for Trahearne, which is likely why I added the “friend and mentor” title in the filename. :p And likely also how I wished there had been development time to include Malyck in the narrative.
Corveil & Arquel Warm-up Sketch | November 25, 2025
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 morning, and thought it was a suitable subject to sketch.
Additional crops in the in the full post, the final one being the widest of the batch here. Being a sketch, I haven’t added Corveil’s clothing to the lower half of his body, but I cropped it judiciously to keep him “decent.” :p