{"id":8609,"date":"2026-03-03T12:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:22:31","slug":"lorcan-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2026\/03\/lorcan-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorcan WIP | March 3, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web.png\">&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8612 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web.png\" alt=\"Chest-up cropping of a sylvari drawing with a cool-toned color scheme. \" width=\"950\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web.png 950w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web-768x618.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bit of &#8220;sketch-painting&#8221; I haven&#8217;t posted in a while! I wanted to try a few techniques I haven&#8217;t used in a while. Mainly just the combination of a very soft and harder brush.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Lorcan, my sylvari druid in his &#8216;Untamed&#8221; elite spec form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.03-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.03-web.png\" alt=\"Wider crop of a sylvari with a blue color scheme. \" width=\"593\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.03-web.png 593w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.03-web-187x300.png 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taller crop <em><strong>(Edit March 12, 2026:<\/strong> Slightly updated version)<\/em>. The full composition is full-body, but this one was fairly unplanned, and I&#8217;m not sure the full composition is worth furthering. I titled this post &#8220;work-in-progress&#8221; as it wouldn&#8217;t take me that much longer to refine the smaller crop, but I&#8217;m not sure when I&#8217;ll be able to do this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, I hope it&#8217;s obvious his waist area is covered by foliage. What is the point of my drawing those it if it ends up looking phallic either way! Haha. Well, in any case, I&#8217;ve been thinking lately about how artistic nudity used to not be considered so &#8220;risqu\u00e9&#8221; as it is today &#8211; really old posts on this blog include artistic nudity back when that was widely understood as not titillating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Slightly earlier version of the taller crop in the full post:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.02-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8611 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.02-web.png\" alt=\"Longer cropping of the previous drawing.\" width=\"593\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.02-web.png 593w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.02-web-187x300.png 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2026\/02\/lorcan-wip-february-21-2026\/\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8612\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web.png 950w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025.08.05-LORCAN-wip.01-web-768x618.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/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":[386,387,860,388],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-guild-wars-2","category-sketches-and-studies","tag-guild-wars-2","tag-gw2","tag-gw2-untamed","tag-sylvari"],"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":"&nbsp;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","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=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}