{"id":8604,"date":"2026-02-20T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:46:08","slug":"harbinger-pose-study-february-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2026\/02\/harbinger-pose-study-february-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Harbinger&#8221; Pose Study | February 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2021.8.19-harbinger-landis-pose-study.01-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2021.8.19-harbinger-landis-pose-study.01-web.png\" alt=\"Drawing study of a pistol shooting animation from Guild Wars 2.\" width=\"648\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2021.8.19-harbinger-landis-pose-study.01-web.png 648w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2021.8.19-harbinger-landis-pose-study.01-web-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quick pose study of the pistol animation for the &#8220;Harbinger&#8221; elite spec from Guild Wars 2 (not to be confused with Malyck being the &#8220;Nightmare Harbinger,&#8221; or with &#8220;The Harbinger&#8217;s Path&#8221; comic) (I always thought it was an amusing decision they decided to name the elite with the same term. Such teases!).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I first tried out the Harbinger spec on my reaper, I really enjoyed watching the animation for the pistol&#8217;s attack animation. I thought the posing done by the riggers\/animators was fantastic, and I couldn&#8217;t resist doing a little study from the in-game pose.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Unrelated to the above sketch &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure how this happened, but I might be formatting 2 comics for print this month\/into next month. I&#8217;ll have more info next week, most likely. (It&#8217;s small, nothing major.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2026\/02\/harbinger-pose-study-february-20-2026\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8606\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2021.8.19-harbinger-landis-pose-study.01-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2021.8.19-harbinger-landis-pose-study.01-web.png 648w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2021.8.19-harbinger-landis-pose-study.01-web-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/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":[5,422,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-guild-wars-2","category-sketches-and-studies"],"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\/digital-art\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Digital Art<\/a> <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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604","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=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}