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Doodled a fairy Hyrule today

Link sketch dump

I got a bit distracted the other day and designed a Link. I don’t remember what inspired me to do this, but I had fun nonetheless. In the process of designing her look I also came up with a bunch of little ideas about her.

I would place her story somewhere between Spirit Tracks and Breath of the Wild. Although, I headcanon Hyrule Warriors as being at the point when the three timelines merge, so it would be before that. Before she became the hero she worked as either a blacksmith, an engineer or maybe both. She wears pegasus boots and prefers the sword over a bow.

She is deaf, and because of this doesn't talk. Near the start of her quest, she meets the fairy Emcee who helps her navigate and talk to people. A while later she receives a Great Fairy’s Earing as a gift. The earing has been enchanted to work as a hearing aid for her. She loves using it to hear Emcee and the sounds of the forest but doesn't like to use it in towns because she finds all of the noise overwhelming. She communicates mostly through sign language, or by having Emcee speak for her. After getting the Great Fairy’s Earing she chooses not to learn to speak because she sees no need when she can communicate just fine with sign in most circumstances. Except for that jerk in Castle Town.

Emcee and Link can communicate through a kind of magical telepathy, which is mostly used in combat situations. Outside of combat Link uses sign, and Emcee uses a form of morse code with her glow. Emcee insists that she is skilled in speaking sign language, but no one can see her hands so the point is mute.

I’m just gonna state that I am not deaf, nor do I personally know anyone who is, so if I’ve done something wrong, or been offensive in any way, please let me know so I can change. I started playing with the idea of making her deaf because I was thinking about the fact that many canon links have varying degrees of mutism for various reasons, and I began brainstorming a list of reasons why someone might be mute. I started leaning toward deafness when I was watching a youtube video and a deaf man was explaining why he chooses not to speak even though he did learn when he was younger. the way he described it like learning a new language, and how it is a skill that if you don't use you will lose it, made me see it in a new light. In the end, I choose to make her deaf because I’m studying game design and the idea of making a game with a deaf protagonist seemed really interesting to me. I think it would be a cool way to make people think about what it is like to live a different life. It would also make an interesting challenge to make a game that has no sound-based puzzles in it. I think the world could use more heroes who aren't “normal”, kids need to see that anyone can be a hero regardless of what they were born with or without.

INKTOBER IS DONE!!!! I dont care that its nearly Christmas, I set a goal to finish and I did!

Linked Universe and Magnus Archives

So, I really love Linked Universe, and I also really love the podcast Magnus Archives. I decided to try and see which fears fit each link. I tried to see which fear would haunt them, not which one they would be an avatar for, might do that later. In other words which of the fears would be the one that keeps them up at night and sneaks in to eat at the edges of their mind. If you are seeing this because you love Magnus, check out linked universe here, it’s a cool Legend of Zelda AU with all the links traveling together. If you are seeing this because of LU check out the Magnus Archives here (or literally any place you can get podcasts), its an awesome horror podcast made by rusty quill gaming. If horror isn’t your cup of tea check out their other stuff too, they've got a lot of cool stuff. The list ended up being pretty long, so I’ll put it under the cut.

·       Time-The Web. The web is the fear of being controlled, it’s the fear of being trapped with no escaped. I chose the web for time because I saw a connection to The Mother of Puppets. With his masks particularly the fierce deity mask and the possible loss of control and insanity that comes with the power that it gives. He saw what the power of Majora’s mask did to skull kid and fears that the same will happen to him. Not only that but Majora set up a lot of tricks for him and more or less used him as a plaything. After being used and thrown away by Hyrule when they needed a hero, not great. He tried his best and went through hell to live up to destiny and follow the path set for him by fate and by the sword and then he was told to forget anything ever happened and go back to being a kid. So, I think that the fear that would fit him best would be the web, particularly The Mother of Puppets side of it. I think that the fear of not being in control of anything in his life or losing control to some force out there would be something big for him.

·       Four- The Lonely. The lonely is the fear of being alone. It is the fear that you are alone, no one cares for you, and you will always be alone. This one isn’t as deep as some of the others, I think four’s biggest fear is being alone. He has lost Ezlo, then he lost shadow, and in a way lost his four parts. I think he is afraid that one day he will be all alone without his parts, or any of his friends.

·       Twilight- The Hunt. The hunt is the fear of being hunted, it is about the thrill of the chase, violence, and the victory of the final kill. I think that twilight fears that when he turns into a wolf he will lose himself. He’s never had that problem before, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I think twilight is afraid of losing himself to the thrill of the hunt and end up hurting someone he cares about. On the other side of the coin, he has also been hunted. When he was first turned into a wolf he was chased out of his village by people he considered family. To top it off questing to save Hyrule and being hunted by monsters is never good for one’s sanity.

·       Wild-The End. This one may seem weird because the end is the fear of death and wild is an adrenaline junky who can literally come back from the dead. but I think that his death and failure to save Hyrule the first time around haunts him. I think that some part of him deep down is afraid of dying, and what his death will mean for Hyrule. I don’t think he is afraid of the pain of dying, but the end of life, does something come after, if so what, what will happen to Hyrule without its hero. I think that there may also be a part of him that fears that he can’t die, whether that means that the world won’t let him die, or that he physically cannot die no matter what. What if he is forced to live on and watch as everything he worked for crumbles before him.

·       Legend-The Web. So, Legend was really hard to pick just one fear for Legend, there were multiple that could have worked. I almost chose the spiral, which is the fear of madness and nothing being real, because of his experience on Koholint, and the thought that maybe nothing is real and it’s all just a dream. In the end, I decided on the web because the kid has been on something like 6 quests and it probably seems that he will never get to rest. Not only that but with traveling with the other links he must have learned from Hyrule that all his work was for nothing, in the end Ganon came back. So, I think the web is the fear that haunts him, the fear that no matter what he is trapped by destiny to fight, loose people, and do it all over again until he dies. And it will all be for nothing.

·       Warrior-The Slaughter. The slaughter is the fear of war, violence, and killing. It’s not about the chase like The Hunt is, and it is very much about human death, unlike The Flesh which is very animalistic. I picked the slaughter for Warrior because you don’t just walk off leading an army through a war, and having to kill your own men when they turn traitorous without some kind of permanent backlash. I think that sometimes he is afraid that he is nothing but a mindless killing machine lost in the violence of war. I mean in the games you kill about 1,000 enemies a level, most of the time more, that’s probably more then you might kill in the entirety of some of the other games. I think the mindless brutality of war haunts him.

·       Wind-The Eye. The eye is the fear of being watched, it is the fear that someone out there knows all of the secrets you would rather hide. I don’t think Wind has a lot of secrets to hide, he’s pretty open, and freely tells stories about most things. But I don’t think he likes being watched. In his first quest he was being watched and judged by the gods, to see if he was worthy of the title of hero. Then when battling the phantoms even the smallest millisecond of being spotted could mean death. He has a lot to live up to with the eyes of everyone in the past looking at him. I think that keeps him up at night, trying to live up to everyone’s expectations and fill the shoes of the mythical Hero of Time.

·       Sky-The Spiral. I don’t think the madness aspect of the spiral would really get to Sky, he seems to be pretty grounded, but the corridors are an entity of the spiral. I don’t remember if that is what it is called, but whatever Michael is. The endless hallways full of doors that trap people. I think this works for Sky because I think that he fears being endlessly trapped chasing something. He spent a lot of time chasing Zelda, and I think that he blames himself for not catching up with her and helping her sooner. His low stamina doesn’t help. He was also too slow to stop demise, which lead to all of the others being cursed. So, I picked the spiral for him because I think he has nightmares of running and running and never quite being able to catch whatever it is, no matter how far he travels.

·       Hyrule-The Flesh. I had the opposite problem with Hyrule that I had with Legend. To me, he seems like a guy that doesn’t let anything hold him back and doesn’t hold on to trauma. The flesh is usually a fear only associated with animals and has to do with slaughter and butchery. This may seem a bit out of place for Hyrule, but if you think about the events of Zelda 2 he spends the entire game being hunted like an animal for his blood. I almost used the hunt for this, but they are specifically after his blood which I feel plays into the animalistic nature of the flesh very well. I considered giving him the lonely, but then I realized I don’t think he fears being alone. For him being alone is the norm, maybe after spending time with the other links and going back home the pain of being alone may hit him, but I think for the most part he doesn’t fear being alone because he doesn’t realize he is alone. he doesn’t realize that most people spend most of their day surrounded by others.

These are just my thoughts feel free to share yours if you think I got one of them wrong, let me know. I’m always open to constructive criticism or just to hear your thoughts. I might make some art for these later, or make a list of the avatars that they would each be. I don’t know stay tuned.

Drew this for a final in an art class almost a year ago. I decided recently to color it. I've never really done digital watercolors before so this was a fun experience. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Eal1Vpn3O/?igshid=jwyumtzy72a3

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Doodled two of my rwby ocs this week.

So Instagram is stupid and its cross posting feature apparently only works with a single image. Well heres the rest that was supposed to be there.

I told myself that I would complete inktober and I’m going to complete it even if it takes till December. Heres days 1-15, only about the first 8 got done in oct. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4572XxAym8/?igshid=fawxp6t4fm6l

I told myself that I would complete inktober and I'm going to complete it even if it takes till December. Heres days 1-15, only about the first 8 got done in oct. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4572XxAym8/?igshid=fawxp6t4fm6l

So I got inspired by  @aufi-creative-mind‘s Kintsugi Fi and got the idea to draw what Fi might look like for Linked Universe, well I suppose it could just be for BOTW. I really had fun playing with the idea that she was shattered when the timeline split, and decided to keep a part of each of those appearances so that she could keep the ties to each of her boys. I also really love and got inspired by @nobodytheelf‘s long haired BOTW Fi.

So I started this drawing like four years ago with the character on the left. Over the past few years I have lost, found, and lost this drawing over and over again. So I figured I might as well finish it. My best friends from elementary school and I made up these characters when we were like 8 and I still love drawing them, so you can expect lots of doodles of them in the future. Each character has an element that they are linked to, probably not hard to guess who is who, and for this particular set of drawings I started with the idea of drawing them as dragon riders, and then I ended up very far from there, but I’m extremely happy with the result.

Made a little character sprite for my coding class. I have no idea how the resolution is going to show up on tumblr.

I’ve been playing minish cap, and watched a play through of four swords recently, and oh my gosh this boy finds so many things underground!! So of course I had to draw the little gremiln in a hole in the ground.

I found the time to color this. I am so stinking proud of the colors.

I tried to sketch twilight from memory, and then colored him with whatever pens I had on hand.

Got inspired by the gerudo from breath of the wild, and decided to try a armored vai look for my rwby oc midnight. I’ll probably color this later.

Decided to draw the henna I got at FanX. The lines turned out really well, so I added some color. @mountainmehndi https://www.instagram.com/p/B2cK8VIgwbj/?igshid=1kpzngorgyyoz

For my animation class we started off the semester with a ball bounce and a 10 day sketch book blitz. It's been a long time since I've done primarily traditional art, this was really fun. https://www.instagram.com/p/B11ic1_AO0B/?igshid=div2apfkn8wm

Rough cool down sketch at the end of a long day. Black rock shooter from memory, might look up a reference and clean her up at some point.

As promised here is the full finished collab! I was blown away by all of the amazing artists that I was able to work with! None of them have Tumblr but be sure to check them out on Instagram!

Meiko is by Kaiden_pixie, Rin is by Peachie.jpeg, Luka is mine, Miku is by Bionarix.RSB, Len is by v3flowerismylordandsavior, and Kaito is by Dustcoated

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in an amazing collab with some other awesome artists for Magical Mirai 2019. Here is my piece of Megurine Luka. This was lots of fun, I can’t wait to see how the full thing will turn out, and I will be sure to post that as well.

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in an amazing collab with some other awesome artists for Magical Mirai 2019. Here is my piece of Megurine Luka. This was lots of fun, I can’t wait to see how the full thing will turn out, and I will be sure to post that as well.

I’ve realized that mobile Tumblr is stupid, and no one can find my commissions page. Here is my basic commission info, if you are interested find my full information here.

Needed a basic chibi for making my commission sheets, so I whipped up this little cutie really quick. Almost all of the shading is done with an airbrush setting, and I’m happy with it.

I was suppose to design a spaceship for a class. I designed a crystal bird mecha instead. Oops.

I was feeling in a sci-fi mood, so I started doodling a android fighter, but I couldn't decide if they would be male or female, so I drew both. Played around with different shading styles.

A commission piece for my friend Ru Coal from the RWBY OC amino community of their OC Amber Heath, and some sketches of her weapon. They were really awesome to work with, and for one of my first commissions, they were really patient with me not having any clue what I was doing.

Found another old art. This one is not as old as the other it was the first time I tried colored line art though. I drew this in a few hours for a scholarship entry. May have used a pose reference, but if I did, then I’ve lost it.

Digging through some old folders and found my first proper art piece done digitally. I made this back in jr high for an English project when we were reading 1984, I hated that book

I’ve only been posting art for a little while, here and on my Instagram, and honestly, it’s been really nerve wracking for me. I kept wondering why I even decided to do this, but something happened that made it all worth it for me.

I was out and about with my family and ran into one of my old church leaders from when I was a kid and she shared a story with me about how my art had helped a girl. This leader has worked with foster kids for years, and is working on getting her masters in something related to helping teens and kids. As part of that she is working as a therapist for some kids, and in one session she was sitting with this girl. This girl was completely stonewalling her, wouldn’t say anything, wouldn’t even look her in the eye. My leader knew that she liked anime, and remembered all the anime art that I post, so she shared my art with this girl, and that helped her to open up. after that she wouldn’t stop talking.

I personally know how helpful therapy can be, and the thought that my art helped that girl to open up and be able to get the help she needed, well it makes it all worth it for me. I started making art because it makes me happy, not because of a class or for someone else, but because I love it and it makes me happy. I think I lost sight of that. so, I’ll keep making art, because I love it, and I’ll keep posting art, because maybe, just maybe, there is someone out there who I can help with my art.

Yet another drawing of my beautiful star child. I wanted to draw my rwby oc as a huntress of vacuo, Im pretty happy with the result. I included the wip because I wanted to draw her gun in the picture but.........well..... I cant draw guns.