{"id":9933,"date":"2026-08-11T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=9933"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:31:04","slug":"solitary-sylvari-paintover-festival-of-the-four-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2026\/08\/solitary-sylvari-paintover-festival-of-the-four-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"“Solitary Sylvari” Paintover – The Festival of the Four Winds | August 11, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"A<\/a>
2026 paintover drawing of the “Solitary Sylvari” from the “Festival of the Four Winds.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“All these years later and I still hear its echoes in my head.”<\/em>
\n– “Solitary Sylvari” from the Festival of the Four Winds [link<\/a> to dialogue on the wiki page]<\/em><\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite festivals in Guild Wars 2! <\/strong>I felt like doing some warm-up drawing yesterday with this paintover to celebrate the annual festival going live today. It isn’t quite a sketch, as I probably spent a good amount of time on the original – but I didn’t on the paintover yesterday, and I wouldn’t call it finished. It’s very rough in parts.<\/p>\n

I remember always liking the general idea\/concept for this drawing, though there were parts I was dissatisfied with, and I remember being unable to improve on at the time. It was fun seeing what I’d do differently now, compared to when I drew the original. <\/p>\n

Enjoy the festival! I love meandering around the map and taking in the atmosphere. I can end up wandering aimlessly and not realize hours have gone by if I don’t catch myself!<\/p>\n

The original 2018 version in the full post, to compare with the 2026 paintover above: <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Earlier 2018 version of the Drawing of the “Solitary Sylvari” from the “Festival of the Four Winds” drawing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I find the original somewhat embarrassing now. I hope I have improved my anatomy since then. His stretchy torso! Haha. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

“All these years later and I still hear its echoes in my head.”<\/em>
\n– “Solitary Sylvari” from the Festival of the Four Winds [link<\/a> to dialogue on the wiki page]<\/em><\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite festivals in Guild Wars 2! <\/strong>I felt like doing some warm-up drawing yesterday with this paintover to celebrate the annual festival going live today. It isn’t quite a sketch, as I probably spent a good amount of time on the original – but I didn’t on the paintover yesterday, and I wouldn’t call it finished. It’s very rough in parts.<\/p>\n

I remember always liking the general idea\/concept for this drawing, though there were parts I was dissatisfied with, and I remember being unable to improve on at the time. It was fun seeing what I’d do differently now, compared to when I drew the original. <\/p>\n

Enjoy the festival! I love meandering around the map and taking in the atmosphere. I can end up wandering aimlessly and not realize hours have gone by if I don’t catch myself!<\/p>\n

The original 2018 version in the full post, to compare with the 2026 paintover above: <\/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":[5,6],"tags":[928,386,387,230,927,388],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-sketches-and-studies","tag-festival-of-the-four-winds","tag-guild-wars-2","tag-gw2","tag-sketch","tag-solitary-sylvari","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":"Digital Art<\/a> Sketches & Studies<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"\"All these years later and I still hear its echoes in my head.\" - \"Solitary Sylvari\" from the Festival of the Four Winds [link to dialogue on the wiki page] This is one of my favorite festivals in Guild Wars 2! I felt like doing some warm-up drawing yesterday with this paintover to celebrate the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","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=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}