Hero of Time Revisited

In a strange sort of twist, while I am only just now putting up this sketch from my series of personal interpretations of The Legend of Zelda, it was actually the first; the one that got the ball rolling, really. There are still plenty of other characters and creatures I’d love to visit at some point, time permitting…

Carnival Birthday Poster

Wanting to create a kid-friendly piece focused on typography, I asked my lovely and always-inventive friend Rhiannon for an assignment. Her suggestion was to create posters for a child’s party in different themes. I thought this perfect and began immediately, and so this carnival-styled poster is the result. Hope you enjoy, and I might just have another one coming down the pipes soon enough…

Extraordinary Voyages

Here’s something new! Well, sort of. I wanted to do some new typographic work, and expanding on the “Circumnavigate” piece seemed a perfect opportunity. I’d love to use the illustrations already finished to create further adventures for the duo, weaved together to create a children’s book. For now though, I hope you’ll enjoy this piece.

Stalfos Knight

I’ve always liked the Stalfos from The Legend of Zelda because they’re understandable; you could tell very easily they were animated human skeletons, no matter the pixel count. The Stalfos in Twilight Princess strayed too far from this for my liking—they look like they were monsters even before death, and their gear was entirely too fetishistic of skulls (see: Arthas).

Personally, I’d prefer to take it back to a more subtle form, as though they were the reanimated corpses of a defeated invading kingdom’s knights. They sport similar but slightly different heraldry than Hyrule to hint at a disastrous desire for power.

Hero Attire

I may have drawn Link from Legend of Zelda a while ago, but I still think about the “ideal” version from time to time. I felt like there needed to be more to it, so here’s another take.

Eli & Amos’ Great Undersea Adventure

After teasing it in previous posts, here at last is my latest illustration: Eli & Amos’ Great Undersea Adventure! My schedule permitted only sporadic work on this (much like the previous Eli & Amos piece), and it’s a far more complex—some might say ambitious—illustration than its predecessor. It was great fun to work on though, and a great opportunity to learn.

I like changing my process up to avoid stagnation and allow for learning new techniques. The challenge here was finding an approach different from “Circumnavigate” that would net quicker, better results while retaining the same style as its predecessor. The sheer amount of detail in this made it take longer in total, but I’m quite happy with the end result.

In site news, after putting it off for entirely too long I’ve finally caved and installed the newest WordPress. Ordinary visitors might not notice much of a difference (aside from faster page loads), but it was definitely worth it: the tools on the publishing side are far richer than their already-rich precursors. I look forward to making future website updates.

Sneak Peek #2

Another little preview of that certain something I’ve been working on [very] intermittently, which is suddenly coming along rather nicely…

Hero of Time

Along the way in making this, I got lost in the fun of creating a more realized illustration. The textures and palette choices made this stray from the initial “feeling” that inspired this, but I’m quite happy with the result of this artistic meandering.

You can find details, including a close-up image, after the jump.

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Hero of Time sketch

Reading GameSpite’s take on Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in their newest Quarterly got me reminiscing on the feeling I used to get from playing the game when I was a wee lad. It was colorful and adventurous, with a little grit, like everything was eroded by sand, wind, and time. That feeling made me want to explore creating my ideal interpretation of Link, with bits and pieces of his design that I liked throughout the years amalgamated into one. This definitely needs coloring to really get my idea across, but for now I thought I’d share this sketch.

Twi’lek Jedi

So I drew this a few weeks ago, I think around the time the trailer for Season Two of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” was revealed. The show itself is very well put-together, and being as big a Star Wars geek as I am, it’s exciting to see the universe being expanded upon like this. Hopefully Lucasfilm/LucasArts produces even more esoteric EU material in the same sort of accessible media.