{"id":7878,"date":"2025-11-11T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:07:04","slug":"trahearne-detail-crop-the-harbingers-path-ch1-november-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2025\/11\/trahearne-detail-crop-the-harbingers-path-ch1-november-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Trahearne Detail Crop – The Harbinger’s Path, Ch1 | November 11, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Detail crop from the final page of Chapter 1 from The Harbinger’s Path <\/strong>| Retouched Version<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Detail crop of Trahearne from the finale page for Chapter 1<\/a> of The Harbinger’s Path.<\/a> Always meant to post this at some point, and why not today! <\/p>\n

It’s curious for me looking at this again. At the time of this page’s completion, I was quite pleased with this portion of the page, in particular. Though they’re very loose, it was much more line-focused than I’d done before attempting chapter 1, and this panel was probably the most heavily line-focused drawing in the entire chapter. (And if it is not, it felt this way to me.) <\/p>\n

Before this chapter, I was never very happy with my line drawings – it’s why I almost always added color to drawings before showing them. I didn’t think they looked presentable on their own without some color or value to back up the lines. This drawing was the first one I made in years where I thought it turned out decent even without color or value – I didn’t have to shade this one as much as I normally would for the drawings I was doing at the time. <\/p>\n

Even so, as it tends to happen when doing a longer project like a comic, I can see the way I draw Trahearne now is a little different compared to how I was drawing him in Chapter 1. I’ve been aware that the style in the comic shifts a bit – mostly from chapter to chapter, but even within pages of the same chapter. Some if it is intentional experimentation (I’ve been drawing several expressions for Trahearne on page 15 this week, where he looks a little more “seinen” or older – and I might need to tone this down to not make him look too different from earlier pages), while other times it’s been a natural progression from how I’ve grown to enjoy drawing him. <\/p>\n

But there are a few different stylistic ways I like to draw him – mostly between a little more youthful or “bishounen” and slightly more mature or more “seinen,” let’s be honest, haha. I enjoy drawing him both ways, but I hope it doesn’t look too inconsistent in the comic. At least, not in a way that is distracting while reading. <\/p>\n

Oddly, I think I am more consistent when it comes to Malyck – but I haven’t done a full read-through of the entire comic from page 1 to the current page in a while. I might change my mind if I give that a go sometime. <\/p>\n

Edit:<\/strong> Ironically (or predictably?), right after making this post, it made me want to retouch this drawing. I’ve done so above (and to the live page) – the original will be below in the full post, preserved for comparison! <\/p>\n

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Original version: <\/p>\n

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Detail crop of Trahearne from the finale page for Chapter 1 of The Harbinger’s Path. Always meant to post this at some point, and why not today!  It’s curious for me looking at this again. At the time of this page’s completion, I was quite pleased with this portion of the page, in particular. Though…<\/span><\/p>\n

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