{"id":7297,"date":"2025-07-29T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:35:18","slug":"mist-stranger-trahearne-paintover-july-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2025\/07\/mist-stranger-trahearne-paintover-july-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mist Stranger Trahearne” Paintover | July 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Mist Stranger Trahearne” | 2025 paintover of a 2021 painting; vertical crop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a 2025 practice paintover of one of my older paintings of Trahearne from 2021. I’ll put the original at the end of the post, and you can flip between them for comparison (and judge me on how much I’ve improved or not since, haha). <\/p>\n

I remember thinking this fan theory quite fun at the time – it is not my fan theory, and I believe I saw it mentioned on both Reddit and Tumblr occassionally, at the time. (I can’t recall if it originated from one person, or multiple people – if you happen to know, feel free to share and I’ll add this info into this post). Edit:<\/strong> Found some links from the time! On Tumblr<\/a> and Reddit.<\/a> Thanks to @scarlet-briar<\/a> on Bluesky for the Tumblr info (it is their theory and Tumblr page in the link!).<\/p>\n

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“Mist Stranger Trahearne” | 2025 paintover of a 2021 painting; full composition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The general theory is that the Mist Stranger might be Trahearne, perhaps from an alternate timeline. While the idea doesn’t fit into my “headcanon” projects for The Harbinger’s Path<\/a> and Nightmare’s Embrace,<\/strong> it’s still fun thinking about alternate possibilities people cleverly speculate on. Especially as, this one involved the possibility for the character reappearing again in-game. <\/p>\n

For this painting, I remember being fond of the overall composition, or perhaps the concept of the composition – but when I randomly saw the file again over the weekend, I realized the composition had some problems. Some visually awkward moments. The full version is a horizontal composition – which I think I’ve improved slightly from the original, though I still prefer it as the cropped portrait version at the top of this post, instead of the full canvas above.<\/p>\n

The main thing I wanted to try was some of the techniques I’ve been using in The Harbinger’s Path<\/strong> comic pages, but applied to a painting\/illustration. Quite fun! <\/p>\n

Below (in the full post) is the 2025 paintover, followed after by the original 2021 version for comparison: <\/p>\n

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