Withering Effect

I finally completed some refs for World Serpent. I went a little overboard for Rook, and toned it down for Zelda.

I am especially pleased with Rook's ref, particularly the bottom close-ups of his appearance throughout Imprisoning War.

I'm popping in after a long absence before likely vanishing again.

I'm working on an alternate universe Ouroboros story in which Zelda survives the Great Calamity instead of dying, as in 'The Wild Things'. Along with that comes refreshed designs ;)

The book is World Serpent

I like this Uriel design much more than his original, admittedly. I removed his middle legs and replaced them with just wings, and separated him a little more from Dinraal, Naydra, and Farosh (on purpose) with fur and feathers. I feel it better suits Uriel's concept more.

He does still have his scarring, just the angle of his head hides it, lol (totally wasn't done on purpose because I couldn't draw it how I wanted, what are you talking about?)

I have some rough designs for Rook and Zelda but neither of which are completed.

I've been working on a Arcane and Subnautica: Below Zero crossover called Bygone Remnants and I did some rough ref for them Jayce and Viktor. I haven't been doing much drawing recently since I've been in a general funk but I'm happy with these.

The drawings are for the final book in my Ouroboros Botw/Totk Au called Requiem.

I love Rook's the most :D

I feel like Zelda is missing something, but I can't place what, so I'm settling lol.

Cat boy Mirage 🐈 He's also got some tats, the main one is Uriel cause he's a fanboy through and through.

Eheh, fun fact, I drew Hylia reaching with her left arm but it should have been her right. I'm only now realising this as I'm posting, so I won't be going back to fix it :')

I adore Rook's ancient attire.

Strawberry blonde Hylia :)

Uriel has been a continual work in progress to the point I had to go back and make edits to chapters to keep up lol.

Here is a sort of alternate design for Zonai/Rauru and Mineru that I feel fits better. It's mostly their legs as I felt they were too humanoid in TOTK. A few other minor details like a tail and further developed horns.

I also headcanon the colour of the underside of their hair/mane correlates with their magic. Rauru has golden which is light. Mineru has a very pale purple for spirit. It also carries over to their claws/nails.

Rauru, as male, as more tuffs, like a lion would have a mane.

Their clothing here isn't too important, just an alternate outfit really.

And lastly, Dragon Roost. This is the town that Rook established just outside of Castle Town ruins. It began just as Lookout Landing but evolved as Rook's goals grew.

I've finally managed to vaguely get across the shade's appearance from my The Wild Things story. He appears in the most recent chapter for the first time!

Chapter 11: Night Visitor

It's still very much a work in progress for details, but this gets the idea across, and I'm happy about it. He's taken on a future Rook's appearance ;)

I'm currently calling him Echo but whether that stays or not, I don't know.

A rough concept piece for a short story I'm working on called "Til Death Do Us Part."

I implemented elements of the Aspect armour because I feel it was a wasted opportunity on Nintendo's part to be a literal Zonai :'(

Chain meets Flora and Wild post TOTK.

Married Zelink. Trans Link. Secret stone holder Link.

Both are very nonchalant about things that happen. Honestly, what haven't they seen at this point??? Oh, what's this? Hylia wants us to join a bunch of Links that have been together for a year and haven't made progress?? Let's go make some progress!

Summary:

Summoned to the Forgotten Temple, Link finds himself accepting a new journey. With Zelda, of course. No way were either of them going to accept being separated again.

One hundred and two years apart.

The soldier portrait would probably have been commissioned a month or two before Zelda's 17th birthday, and the Champion portrait commissioned for Rook's 16th birthday.

There are subtle differences between their posture that I hope show how different Link/Rook is from Before and Now. His uplifted eyes give a sense of confidence, whereas Before, they were slightly lowered in a subdued expression.

There is also a different lighting between them, which I feel brings out his personality more too. Rook feels more lively in the second one because of the warmer tones.

Originally, he was going to have shoulder-length hair Before like in canon but decided against it as he was under a lot of pressure to appear well-kept which long hair would probably be frowned upon for a soldier.

First thing i've shaded in...months? rip.

Hi, Hi!

The Thistle & Weed rewrite is officially up :)

The Wild Things

I thought I'd upload Rook's refs with a few other things, like a height chart with the Chain. Atari (Rook's mother) and adult!Lainy (Rook's sister) both have head shots, Hyrule with his wings, and some doodles as a bonus.

2024 version of Thistle & Weeds' Chain.

Old version

I may or may not be rewriting Thistle & Weeds. It's getting a real overhaul, I'm not happy with it anymore.

Talking about an overhaul. Twilight, Sky and Hyrule are the most notable changes. Twilight's original design always bugged me, especially since I clearly forgot his markings. I could never get Sky looking how I wanted, but I do here, and Hyrule just better suits his fae heritage in this version, personally anyway.

I'll get around to drawing Flora at some point.

The feathers in Wild/Zinnia/Rook's (that'll be his new new name) are from Kass :)

After months of radio silences, have some doodles. I got Procreate and these are little test drawings as I familiarise myself with the software :)

Largely, it's from my Recluse Au but there's also a Link of the Wild thrown in there too! I haven't drawn must recently, so I'm pretty proud of these sketches.

I plan to update Recluse soon, but honestly, I have no schedule.

An entry from Zinnia's journal. Day 59 of being awake.

He's got a rather childish attitude even knowing what had happened and his burden. He grows out of that as he remembers more and has to say goodbye to the Champions and Zelda's spirits, leaving him how he is now lmao.

A second sketch piece of Midna. I change a few things about her design mostly because it's been so long since Twilight Princess, so felt fitting.

This pretty much came about after working on chapter 15, the idea struck and couldn't get it out of my mind :)

Finally, I have completed Zinnia's reference! This would have been out sooner to my last post but I promptly decided the original clothes were rubbish and did not suit Zinnia--let alone actually look good!

I'm so proud, lmao

Zinnia is an alternate version of Wild from my Recluse AU:

Bruh, I appreciate it.

As thanks, have a sneak peek of a piece of Zinnia/Wild's 3rd and final ref.

(I finally, after many attempts, have created a ref I'm proud of. Just gotta colour it.) :D

For my Recluse AU, I settled on ages so I thought I'd sketch out some of my takes.

Also, Warriors with stubble isn't something I knew I needed--

(Legend is supposed to be looking over his shoulder but at first glance, it doesn't really look like it, oops.)

(Wild will be going by Zinnia in this au, hence both names to save confusion.)

A snippet from Chapter 11 from my fic Recluse. Link telling Wind about Linkle.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30167466/chapters/74323317

Link barked out a bitter laugh, “Jokes on them, I failed,” he dragged a hand across his facial scarring, “I died. Spent one hundred years in some ancient Shiekah shrine that brought me back from the dead.”

I haven't drawn much recently and I've been messing around with some tools and really like the lack of pen pressure for sketches since I tend to go overboard with detailing which means I spent a lot of time on it. So I've been working on finding some way to speed the process up while enjoying the progress and feeling good about it.

Riju and Link.

Pre Link losing his arm in my Recluse AU.

I always love seeing sketchy drawings by others and I'm never happy with my own attempts at them but this one turned out good :3

Riju is only three years younger than Link and already she's almost taller than him lmao.

I think the overlay came from Deviantart? I found it a while ago, so I could be wrong?