{"id":8157,"date":"2025-12-09T13:19:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:42:50","slug":"trahearne-wintersday-sketch-december-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2025\/12\/trahearne-wintersday-sketch-december-9-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Trahearne Wintersday Sketches | December 9, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.04-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8158 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.04-web.png\" alt=\"It's Trahearne licking a candy cane. Loose lineart drawing. \" width=\"950\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.04-web.png 950w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.04-web-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.04-web-768x467.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a>Spurred from a conversation with Jasmine on bluesky yesterday where she said, &#8220;trahearne is back and he&#8217;s santa&#8211; \ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf84&#8221; &#8211; which gave me a variety of amusing mental images I immediately wished to draw.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a warm-up sketch that I might finish another time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is 3\/4-body in the full composition &#8211; putting it in the full post, because I think the shoulder is a little off (this is another anatomy construction practice from imagination drawing). <strong>Edit:<\/strong> Updated the 3\/4 version it slightly; I guess I&#8217;ll leave it without a readmore now, though there are still off things about it &#8211; still a sketch\/potential WIP).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.07-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8159\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.07-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.07-web.png 615w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.08-gw2-trahearne-candy-cane.07-web-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Edit December 18, 2025&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adding one more. :p&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.05-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8230 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.05-web.png\" alt=\"Drawing of Trahearne looking down toward the viewer. \" width=\"863\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.05-web.png 863w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.05-web-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.05-web-768x845.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/a>Larger crop in the full post:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.04-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8231 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.04-web.png\" alt=\"Wider crop from the previous drawing. Trahearne holds a santa hat in a playful way for Wintersday. \" width=\"909\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.04-web.png 909w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.04-web-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.04-web-768x803.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/a>This was technically the second &#8220;Trahearne is santa&#8221; drawing I sketched (I think the day after the first sketch in this post) &#8211; but I sketched a few other ideas before cleaning this one up slightly tonight for fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a full-body uncropped, but not sure I&#8217;ll finish this further.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Edit December 20, 2025&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.06-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8247\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.06-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"909\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.06-web.png 909w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.06-web-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09-trahearne-santa-hat.06-web-768x803.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/a>Tried out adding color and shading as a &#8220;warm-up&#8221; earlier. The color, along with the santa hat, made him look like a Christmas tree (lol), which lends me to think I prefer this sketch without color. :p&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred from a conversation with Jasmine on bluesky yesterday where she said, &#8220;trahearne is back and he&#8217;s santa&#8211; \ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf84&#8221; &#8211; which gave me a variety of amusing mental images I immediately wished to draw.&nbsp; This is a warm-up sketch that I might finish another time.&nbsp; This is 3\/4-body in the full composition &#8211; putting it<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2025\/12\/trahearne-wintersday-sketch-december-9-2025\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,6],"tags":[807,387,230,388,458,816,808],"class_list":["post-8157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guild-wars-2","category-sketches-and-studies","tag-candy-cane","tag-gw2","tag-sketch","tag-sylvari","tag-trahearne","tag-trahearne-is-santa","tag-wintersday"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Landy","author_link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/author\/liz\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/guild-wars-2\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Guild Wars 2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/sketches-and-studies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sketches &amp; Studies<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Spurred from a conversation with Jasmine on bluesky yesterday where she said, &#8220;trahearne is back and he&#8217;s santa&#8211; \ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf84&#8221; &#8211; which gave me a variety of amusing mental images I immediately wished to draw.&nbsp; This is a warm-up sketch that I might finish another time.&nbsp; This is 3\/4-body in the full composition &#8211; putting it...Continue&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157","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=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8248,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}