Movember 2025 Glyph Commission, September 2025
Each year for the month of November, Digital Extremes hosts a Movember event in Warframe in support of men's health in conjunction with the Movember Foundation. A main feature of this event is the option for players to wear a wide selection of mustaches on their warframes for the entire month, and alongside this Digital Extremes also commissions an artist to make a glyph (player profile picture) to be made available for free via redeemable code (this year it ran through November to December 31st, 2025).
This year, I am incredibly honored to have been chosen to draw the glyphs for this Movember! I was directed to draw a portrait of Baruuk from Warframe with one of the available in-game mustaches on a colorful background, and later to also provide a black and white version. Warframe's captura mode was used extensively to get plenty of reference material, and I pushed myself to render and detail this portrait to the best of my abilities! While I wish I had put more work into concepting and workshopping the background earlier in the process, I'm still quite happy with how it's turned out! Thanks again to the wonderful folks at Digital Extremes for commissioning me and supporting my work!
Warframe Devstream #190 asset of the two glyphs I made side by side, provided by Digital Extremes.
Colored final glyph of Baruuk from Warframe sporting a glowing white mustache on top of a colorful background.
Black and white alternative glyph, also available in-game!
Timelapse!
The first two initial rough sketched poses side by side.
Various thumbnailed colored background concepts for the two rough sketches.
A third, cleaner rough sketch that I went with.
Rough colored background sketching.
Initial linework.
Partial figure rendering.
Completed figure rendering.
Various rough background concepts side by side, the third being what I went with for the final glyphs.
Four alternate background color options for the final colored glyph, just before a little bit of final polish.
Screenshot of the final glyph in the middle of many reference images, including many captura photos I took myself, a few images of Baruuk from the Warframe Wiki, and a few older works of mine that they wanted me to use for style and color reference.
Screensot of Warframe Devstream #190 when the glyphs were first publicly revealed!
Warframe captura screenshot I made of the colored Movember 2025 glyph I made sprayed onto a pillar in Fortuna. My matching black/white and mustache'd Baruuk stands to the left and captura text at the bottom reads "CODE: MOVEMBER 2025".
Warframe screenshot of my profile header, with the colored Movember 2025 glyph set as my profile picture, replacing my Kullervo glyph.
Warframe screenshot of my profile header, with the black/white Movember 2025 glyph set as my profile picture, replacing my Kullervo glyph.
woah how'd this entirely unrelated photo get here