MTGinktober plans a trip for Day 29, "Navigator," starring Hanna, Ship's Navigator; Timestream Navigator; and Thermal Navigator!
This had to be the toughest one physically to draw this year--it ate up a lot of time just getting these poses down, especially cuz I had to coordinate them so closely with each other, including Thermal jumping off Timestream's hand, forget about the highly detailed costumes for those two. Anyway, we managed to get it reasonably polished in the last burst of inking time. I thought it might be neat to see two navigators hanging out and since one's a Pirate, she might be trying to rip off Hanna by selling her some junk as crucial navigator's tools.
Fun Facts: This is Hanna's third MTGinktober appearance. I wanted to feature her as a nod to my old campaign boss as we're winding down and I'm about to continue campaign volunteering in these final pre-election days--and Hanna herself inspired the whole navigator-swindler scenario we ran with. Timestream's long been a captivating card I've wanted to draw, so I was happy to debut her here. Thankfully her complicated costume was balanced timewise with Hanna's quite simple (and weird) outfit, though Thermal's debut also meant more complicated details.
Easter Eggs: The background is based on the Chris Rallis Hanna art, with its ropes and vessel hints, and then the more jungly background comes Serra Sphinx, after I realized one of the final "normal" Expressions of Magic cards I had yet to draw was a Planar Chaos timeshifted frame. I don't know if this counts, as it's just a background rather than a discernible figure, but I'm sure we'll have another chance for a full Colorshifted star. Also I based Hanna mostly on DiTerlizzi's incredible Hanna's Custody.
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