SHELDON

never done this before but lemme tryyyy

Whole Scene is Basically the brief flashback we get from the chain’s perspective of Artemis’s horrible no good very bad life when she talks to the suitors in the garden

I wanted her expression to show the resignation of her accepting she’s going to get used to get what someone else wants but she’s not putting up with this shit without using them back

I LOVE the way her and wars are so similar in accepting that they are their own bargaining chip to get what they want for other people (wars gave up hebra to be a hero and artemis gave up the only decision she got to make about who to spend the rest of her life with for maya and wars) THEY MAKE ME SO INSANE

I just REALLY wanted to emphasize how tired Artemis is specifically

original sketch had some asshole who’s name we never get in the foreground blurred to shit (i think her expression perfectly captures the annoyance of being talked At rather than talked To)

BUT THEN i had the amazing idea after reading the gut wrenching sequence of the last final chapters where wars last bit of awareness was asking impa to see Artemis’s grave

I was originally going to do a mini comic strip of the amount of plot points that take place with impa watering the plants and a focus on the garden (strawberry wine sessions, wars being high as shit being the only way to express his feelings to Impa or Artemis, archery, maya's training, aftermath of the price consort death ect.) BUT THERE’S TOO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM so congratulations you get angst

i had a LOT of fun playing with the saturation on this one

her armor is always fun to draw but i probably would have rendered the designs a bit better to have the curling imprints be more distinct if i had time

The real ones know I’m lazy and reused the frame for both of them (from my first steel fanart about wars rejecting mossi) but don’t fix what ani’t broken okay

Lowkey had a bit of trouble deciding who’s frame should be silver vs gold

how the hell do you chose a sun and moon dynamic between these two?? She’s literally named after the archer moon goddess but she has holy hylia divine sun powers

and wars is shine bright enough that they can’t see past the glare but moon that only ever orbits around others, only shining with the light he gets from the sun only sees his worth as a hero from complimenting artemis or other people he thinks are more capable DO U SEE MY DILEMMA

• I kinda wanted to turn both of their hands a bit so u could see the triforce symbol?? (Also a reference to previous art from linktober) but i suck at anatomy so what you see is what u get

• (if i hadn’t been a coward Artemis’s hand would have glowed extremely brightly compared to wars which might have had a smidge of ghost blue broken triforce of courage symbol if he was lucky)

Is she staring in disappointment at the one thing she sacrificed her happiness for meaning nothing?? Who can say :)))

Yes his hands haven’t healed from having the cuffs on too tight how could you tell <3 (was originally gonna have the cuffs be looser around his wrists but refer to previous point: anatomy and me don’t get along)

Was i originally going to draw 9 links in the chain? (hypothetically if u count the First Hero, Spirit tracks link, EOC link and AOC link its enough XD)

but No it looked weird in the frame even when i tried to cover it with flowers (NEVER drawing those again)

I had another steel WIP in the making but didn’t get it done in time for the anniversary :/