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Zelda Art Thread

Ah, this really is the best thread. <3 Always finding more artists to bookmark/watch in here...

Big One: Thanks for sharing in yet another great megapost of awesome pieces. The black and white vector is ridiculous!

Prax: The second pic is brilliant - love the feather in the foreground and how accurately you emulated the game's look in your rendering.


Salih said:
the black and white one is supreme. anyone care making a wallpaper out of that?
What resolution do you need it in?
 
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I don't know what it is but man, all the western inspired Zelda art is so much more fantastic than the anime-styled stuff.

So much more imaginative. Anyone agree?
 
Nekofrog said:
I don't know what it is but man, all the western inspired Zelda art is so much more fantastic than the anime-styled stuff.

So much more imaginative. Anyone agree?
Imaginative surely. Faithful to the Zelda games we love, no.
 
Jackano said:
Imaginative surely. Faithful to the Zelda games we love, no.

That's why it's called fanart.

Edit: and now thinking back, Zelda was never very anime to begin with. It had the odd entries where it was anime-ish, but never full on. Which is why it's weird to see people try and depict it in that form.
 
There's so much AMAZING art in here that it's daunting to post my own, but I'll try.
Here's just a really quick sketch I did with Copic markers. Mainly because I wanted to experiment with the blue shading style used in SS artwork. Nothing special.

It's kind of a cross between LttP Link and SS Link.

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And here is a detailed ballpoint pen drawing I did in a A4 Moleskine (A3 when open). No particular scene/area, just Zelda themed.

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Mmm, Copics... They work really well for getting that watercolor-ish look. Nicely done!

I really, really like your bp pen drawing, awesome job on all those textures. And the Majora's Mask in silhouette is a great focal point for the right page.
 
jetsetmario said:
i'm guessing that a mod may want to look into post 601......
And that, ma'ams and sirs, is why you should rehost an image instead of just hotlinking to something you found on the internet. :P That definitely wasn't the image originally posted...

Can a mod edit the embedded pic out of there?

EDIT: Thanks, EatChildren!
 
King of the Potato People said:
Sorry for posting this.

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A world I don't want to imagine but can't help myself.

As much as I've grown to loathe Tetsuya Nomura's stuff the more I see it, I actually think this is kind of a cool way to portray Link. My only problem is the way he's holding the sword - the positioning suggests a certain weightlessness to the blade, which stands out (even more than it does in other media where you have unrealistically sized blades).
 
Loath that way of holding a sword. Holding a weapon like that only works if they are small and you want to get someone off guard. Why would you hold something so big like that any way what advantage does it have?
 
Oh, I forgot about this thread. Now that I see it up I may contribute with my own stuff.

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It is Zelda related I guess!
 
How did I miss this thread? My favorite:

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THE BEAUTY in this thread is beyond amazing. Good stuff. I wish I could draw. I've had this idea of Link being reincarnated as a Sheikah. A ninja with the master sword..
 
Can someone dig up some good but darker 16.x9 walls? I know I'm being picky but I like for my wallpapers to not light up my room at night.
 
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