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OH OOF UGH IVE BEEN CRITICALLY HIT

-20hp

This one's been sitting in my drafts for forever and i always forget about posting it but this feels like a good opportunity to use it so :)

Saw this and thought of you... I've got a laserdisc player but I didn't get it </3 I'm sorry Utena..

just remembered this collection from ye ol days

i apologize if my earlier reblog of your old hw link doodles gave you a scare lmao they are just. superrrrr nostalgic to me in a way?? i hope this doesn't come off as weird but before i had tumblr and i would lurk through hw link things on google and i believe those doodles would show up?? ethier way, i reallyyyy loved them!!!

time passed ofc and i think i found them on insta as well at some point when i eventually got it a couple months ago so that was superrr nice to see. and now i'm seeing them again on tumblr which brings a huge smile to my face.... i've always adored your stuff, i remember a long while back when i'd lurk about your posts for fun and when i discovered the warrdio crackship thing lmao

anywho. you've been an artist that i've seen alottt when i was younger and i cannot believe this is the first time i'm actually sending you anything. wow. i hope you are doing soooo super good btw!! much love to you <33

HHEELLLOOOO THIS WAS A LOVELY NOTIFICATION BOMB TO WAKE UP TO, HOLDING ALL THESE TAGS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART

as for how (i'm seizing this as an opportunity to share a bunch of process work):

there was a butt load of trial and error

From what I can remember (this all started 3 years ago holy shit,,,) I worked on Kevin's design first. The only 2 ref images I've found are included in the screenshot, but I'm pretty sure I was looking at those in addition to all of the other Impa+Sheik designs from the games, OG Hyrule Warriors concept art for Impa+Sheik, and the Sheikah pages from BOTW's Creating A Champion.

here's Link's stuff and YIPPEE I HAVE HIS REFERENCE IMAGES 🙌🙌

(BIG BIGG shoutout to @/historyofhyrule btw for archiving so much concept art and everything from all of the zelda games. None of this brainrot would've been possible without them.)

butt load of trial and error cont. especially for the colour of his scarf omg (I was looking at some of the hero's garb colour variants from OG Hyrule Warriors, and was conscious of the two other scarf wearing Links in Zelda Not Canon)

I can't find Zelda's inspo/ref images either but I remember referencing Griffith and Casca from Berserk, Kushana from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Ashei from TP, some of the OG Hyrule Warriors concept art for Princess Zelda, and of course some of the other canon Zelda designs (ALttP, TP, HW, OoT, BOTW).

I'd say Kushana was and still is the biggest inspo for Prev!Zelda, even personality wise I find myself looking back to her and how she was in the Nausicaa manga and movie.

final design thoughts: I really REALLY wanted the three of them to look cohesive with each other SO,

I always carried over screenshots of the other members of the trio onto their individual canvases to make sure that any changes I made to one design didn't stand out too much from the others,

I'm also pretty sure I worked on Link and Zelda's design simultaneously, or at least flipped back and forth between them a LOT when doing their armour (I wanted it to be evident that they were produced by the same smiths of the royal family yknowww),

and finally I made sure there were a couple of shared colours between their colour palettes

how do u feel about my cat

(If u don't want me to have these saved just say the word and I'll delete them!!)

idk if this is what ur looking for but i do have the ORIGINAL canvas of… this... (unforch saved before waffs could finish :( also hi lemon)