{"id":10461,"date":"2026-11-04T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:03:32","slug":"trahearne-paintover-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2026\/11\/trahearne-paintover-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trahearne Paintover Practice | November 4, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Drawing<\/a><\/p>\n

Trahearne<\/strong> from Guild Wars 2!<\/em><\/p>\n

I have this habit of occasionally going through my files, plucking an incomplete drawing or warm-up “sketchpage” from a while ago, and painting it over as either a warmup or practice and seeing what happens. Here’s one I was drawing last night, touched-up a bit this morning as a warm-up. <\/p>\n

\"Closer-field<\/a>
Closer view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When drawing the paintover, the main thing I was trying out here was another different nib (I tried going back to a felt nib again, which I haven’t used since last year or so), and also some brush settings I was messing around with. <\/p>\n

The sketch for this one was originally drawn in September of last year, and this is how it looked when I opened it last night: <\/p>\n

Initial Sketch<\/h4>\n

\"Initial<\/a><\/p>\n

Seeing the sketch again made me realize my sketching was much messier last year. It’s still messy now, but the above is much more “scraggly” than how I sketch now (at least, I hope so). I do still like some things about the color palette for the original sketch here, though. <\/p>\n

The wider sketchpage is in the full post – it shows two versions of the sketch at earlier stages. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Initial<\/a>When drawing on these sketchpages, I also sometimes have a habit of duplicating a sketch, moving it to the side, and drawing it while comparing it with the initial version. Then I later delete or hide those earlier sketches. It seems to help me with deciding what I want to do when I can see those earlier versions to compare, especially when adjusting the pose (such as how Trahearne initially held Caladbolg downward, instead of upward). <\/p>\n

Process<\/h4>\n

I also tried recording this one last night, which would only show from the time I opened it (not including the initial sketch from last year). This is how I discovered Krita doesn’t record anything when you use its “Isolate Layer” function, which means the most interesting part didn’t record (the new lines). I looked at the timelapse briefly and I don’t think it is very interesting – coupled with how the frames for this one lagged my pc incredibly (it caused Kdenlive to hang for 5-10 minutes before loading the frames, or adjusting the clip speed!), this one’s timelapse is probably not worth the time it would take to compile them for export. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Drawing<\/a><\/p>\n

Trahearne<\/strong> from Guild Wars 2!<\/em><\/p>\n

I have this habit of occasionally going through my files, plucking an incomplete drawing or warm-up “sketchpage” from a while ago, and painting it over as either a warmup or practice and seeing what happens. Here’s one I was drawing last night, touched-up a bit this morning as a warm-up. <\/p>\n

More in the full post: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,422,6],"tags":[674,386,387,233,388,458],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-guild-wars-2","category-sketches-and-studies","tag-caladbolg","tag-guild-wars-2","tag-gw2","tag-sketches","tag-sylvari","tag-trahearne"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Landy","author_link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/author\/liz\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Digital Art<\/a> Guild Wars 2<\/a> Sketches & Studies<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Trahearne from Guild Wars 2! I have this habit of occasionally going through my files, plucking an incomplete drawing or warm-up \"sketchpage\" from a while ago, and painting it over as either a warmup or practice and seeing what happens. Here's one I was drawing last night, touched-up a bit this morning as a warm-up. …","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10498,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}