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EDIT: Completely redid the water and the sky, I'm much happier wiht the result now (here's the old one for comparison's sake Fish )This pic also became 100% more animu summer camp
Original title is original, we know that by now :v
Have some more Zelda because why not
This was an interesting picture to work on. I'm very proud of how I drew Link because this one in particular showed me that my human anatomy has improved a lot, and I also enjoyed the shading process, even though Link's skin is somehow way darker here than irl, I don't really know why. Drawing the fish was also a nice experience, and the rocks... well, they're mostly covered by water anyway hahahaha (hahaha)
As for the background... mixed feelings. I mostly like the way it came out, I stylized it on purpose, especially the water, although the splash isn't as visible as I'd like it to be, but I can't tell if it clashes with the style I used to draw Link and the fish.
This picture also taught me that I should do thumbnail sketches not just for character placement, but also colours. How was I dumb enough to not realize that Link (whose primary colour is GREEN) would be vastly obsured by the GREEN background, I am literally the dumbest artist alive
the fish is also a Termina Bass from Majora's Mask, I feel like pointing it out because there's little chance anyone would habe ever realized that
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I so like the bright and vivid colours here! And I know what you mean about Link's green mixing to the background's I have a bit same problem; not thinking, just colouring. But then again, if you think too much it becomes too determined and can make you lose the very idea of the fun you're having with the work. Inspiration is the key, you've just got to trust it to the very end. (Plain hard, I know.) 
I'm happy to see your human anatomy has improved! Maybe I would have added a slight tiny tiny lighter shade to Link's arm to make emphasize the light effect on the skin and make it differ from his knees, but that's just if you want me to nitpick on anything. XD It's great work, nobody can deny that and other thing if not the motion I like is the blue hues on water. I could stare that turquoise blueness forever, haha.
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haha thanks! once i started colouring the trees and realized that link wouldn't be very visible, i tried adding some blue around him in order to have him pop out more, and i'm glad it worked, but it was still poor planning on my part x) but yeah, i'm not one of those people that obsess over drawing, i think that can quickly ruin the pleasure of it. i see so many people stating "you need to practice anatomy, and backgrounds, and colour theory, and composition and this and that before you can even try to start doing anything", but really, that just makes art become a chore. i believe it's better to learn as you go along, and as long as you take each drawing seriously, you will inevitably improve~
it's acrylics actually (which is the same as gouache pretty much, except it doesn't crumble when it dries, which is much better), i use acrylics a lot in my drawings, especially for backgrounds, since watercolours don't really give you the same vibrant effects (the sky here and in almost all my zelda drawings is made with acrylics, and here i did the lighter trees with acrylics too)
thank you though! i'm much happier with this now, especially the water, and my human anatomy has come a long way :'D which arm?
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You're welcome! The blue works well for that! Yeah, I believe anatomy practise can be useful but you can do it less seriously and have fun with it. I have not been that person drawing hands every day from a model and therefore got better at drawing them. I've just rather been staring at the images and real hands every once in a while and searched refs for the particular pose if I can't ohterwise figure out how it goes. And I think looking has been the big help to my hand anatomy not really drawing those poses for hours. Same with colour theory and backgrounds. Sure you can practise them but I wouldn't take it so seriously. Art is one of the things in which you can succeed with fewer practising and that's just great.
I see, it does its job well nevertheless. I've never used acrylics, my mother complains they stink and all. So to get some vibrant colours I'll just add some Copic there. Though watercolours can be quite good on their own. I use these Russian watercolours
with natural pigment. (They've got a bit more hues by now.)
You should be, it's such a big imporvement this work went through! Please, teach me to do that water! XD The one you can see clearer so the upper arm.
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I mostly just look up references for certain poses, and mostly, after drawing them once, i actually get a decent idea on how to do them. sometimes i find myself sketching a pose for a drawing (be it just some part of the body, or the entire body), then i search up a ref image to refine it and realize that it's actually fairly accurate to the real thing. just tediously copying something down is draining and takes imo the pleasure of drawing away. if art's a hobby for you, it's most fun to learn as you go along~
acrylics do the job very well imo, but i don't always use them because it takes much longer to colour large surfaces with them, and you're limited in your movements because the consistence is much thicker and hard to spread. if you're used colouring with watercolours, that's a big hindrance :'D i've never tried copics because they're hella expensive, but i've seen some incredible things you can do with them. i would love to try them someday
haha my watercolours are some brandless cheap dollar store set, so i could improve on that, but i've managed to work with them for 4 years, so it's fine lol
that water is just a random collection of dots of different kinds of blues (and some green) added on top of each other. i wish i could explain it better haha
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Yes, and lately especially when drawing people I feel like I need a picture of one but it doesn't have to be in the exact same pose I'm going to draw. But the image can give me a hint of how the anatomy goes and I just imagine the rest. (Like when I want to draw sb crouched and leaning on his one knee, I just make do with those images I find even if in my idea the person was also resting his hand on his sword's pommel.) The ref pose I might slightly differ from mine but I get the idea. Maybe that's an improvement in my anatomy understanding.
They are wonderful, indeed! I mostly use them, because I'm not that good at mixing watercolours to get the pefect tone. 
But your tools seem to work fine for you, nothing wrong with that then, I guess? Sometimes simple surpasses the details. It looks wonderful, nonetheless.
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that's what i do as well, i look up a pose to get the general idea, but i adjust it to whatever i need. most of the time i then realize that i almost don't need the reference yay
that sounds like quite an odyssey haha but that's also the thing, all the people i see with markers have at least 50+ of them because there are so many shades, and that kinda intimidates me lol. with watercolours, i just use more or less water for concentration, and if i need a specific tone i just mix a bit of a different colour. keeps things simple, and makes me feel in control. of course i'm sure you know every single one of your markers anyway, but i simply couldn't imagine working with such a huge number of choices. but hey, as you said, everyone has their methods, and if it works for them, then even better~
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Believe me it was such a learning with so many hues. Though I've used to having lots of coloured pencils with markers it felt different. And I kept forgetting which colours I had. But over time you kind of learn to know them the more you use them. Though it was annoying I always happened to open the top at the wrong side. I normally just use the brush because it makes blending easier. Recently I noticed the brush's hue might be slightly darker than the other tip's. And I was shocked to realise the markers can leave splashes. 
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well it makes sense that you get to know them after a certain time if your use them regularly haha. the sheer number just sounds intimidating at first tho
i didn't know they could leave splashes tho 
yeah, it's hard to get the same colour again, which is why i always mix a lot of the same colour if i know i need much (like for colouring large surfaces n stuff), but sometimes the colour you end up with might be better than what you intended, it happens a lot to me while painting. it's sort of like improvising, but i don't do that a lot either :'D
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Your water shading is amazing :0! I love the colors you used 
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thank you! i didn't like it right after i finished it, but then i was really proud
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Hey you cheater, putting an unfinished work here and finishing it after I comment :'P but seriously tho, it looks a lot better now, I love the greenish shades in the water and birds are a nice touch.
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lol it WAS finished, i just went back to redo some parts because i don't know what i was thinking when i said it looks fine. i had mixed feelings for the water from the start, at least now i'm actually happy with it.
skies look 50% more interesting with birds
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This one is really nice. Keep loving the settings you create around the character. But of course the characters look amazing aswell.
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thank you! i honestly prefer drawing characters interacting with some sort of background, i don't like to just have them stand around in a pose, so i always include backgrounds, even if it kills me haha
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I know why, it looks absolutely great when the character and the backgrounds comes together in the drawing.
I wish I had such discipline when drawing. 😅
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they complement each other, landscapes liven up if characters are added, and characters become more dynamic if they have a background to interact with.
don't worry, it took me years to become comfortable with backgrounds, and there's still things i won't draw (like cityscapes), you'll get there
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yeah exactly.
Well Let's get started with practicing landscapes. ^_^
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This is amazing.
Lovely work as always ^^
I always liked to go fishing in OoT and MM, but it felt to me like you didn't accomplish anything if you didn't use target on the fish you wanted to catch.
But oh well, it was nice and chilling with beautiful music playing, that's all I need (I play games .. like .. very calmly and I like to take me some time with what I do. I feel like Breath of the Wild even supports that playstyle, or at least fits better to it than something like .. MM (because of the obvious time limit for example), sadly my bros kind of think it is wrong to play the game this way and try to tell me spoilers whenever they can, just to make fun of how I calmly want to experience the entirety of the game for myself ... assholes :/ )
Why did I type this here?
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thank you!
fishing in majora's mask is pretty much pointless unless you're wearing a mask so that you can lure specific kinds of fish (or the boss fishes), since there aren't really many fishes in the ponds otherwise. but it's still such a cool and relaxing feature, and the kakariko village music in the background is so soothing if you listen to nothing but the eerie sound when you go to a province that is still cursed.
what's wrong with that? i always take forever to play games because i want to make sure that i explore every corner and talk to every npc, i don't wanna miss out on anything. i haven't played botw yet (i'm waiting for nintendo switches to be back in stock here, my botw cartridge has just been sitting on my shelf for over 2 weeks now ;_; so please no spoilers), but the fact that it's open world almost demands you play slowly and explore everything, at least that's what i'm gonna do. and i'm sorry for your bros. if someone tried to spoiler me for a game i've been waiting to play for as long as botw, i'd punch them in the face :'D
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Believe me. I wanted to punch them in the face sooo many times already x)
Thing is. I was/am so damn pumped for botw, and as it isn't really story driven, but there is so much to do and so many cool ways you can use all your stuff, I consider EVERYTHING a spoiler.
I don't want to know what races there are, what weapons, puzzles and armor. Locations on the map and ways to use items.. I want to find out every single bit of the game on my own. But my brothers won't let me. I don't even get how they don't understand that I don't want to know how to do to something. If I don't find it out on my own, what is even the point of it?
The switch belongs to my brother by the way, and he lets me play very rarely.
And so it is even more stupid when both of my bros alwayssit next to me when I play for some reason and tell me that I suck, or that I am stupid for trying something out in a specific way, etc., etc., ect. ...
*sigh*
I am sorry for you that you didn't get the chance to play this amazing game yet.
I wish you best luck in getting a switch and being able to experience Breath of the Wild to the fullest degree as soon as possible
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same haha. i find botw spoilers in the most stupid of places (like in funny videos compilations, or comment sections of samurai jack videos, not kidding), and it's so hard to avoid them. heck, even the related artworks of my zelda-themed pictures have botw fanart, and i have to do my best to not look at them, because some are pretty spoilery.
that game honestly looks amazing. i've watched so many livestreams of E3 last year and remember all the things you could do in that game, and it wasn't even finished yet. i know a few things about it, but i've managed to stay blind. as for the story, i know almost nothing about it, but i know that some story segments are apparently hard to find (part of the open world aspect) and that they're all over the place, which makes it seem inconsistent. but from what i've seen and heard, it's an amazing story, and this being zelda, i know it is. i'm also really happy that i have no idea about the items in this game.
kind of a dick more from your brothers, even if the switch isn't yours they could have the decency to at least let you experience the game at your own pace. one thing's for sure, nobody's gonna touch my switch without my explicit permission, and i can't wait to get it ;v;
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Hmm...I don't think it's that bad that Link and the background is green. The green in the trees is so yellowish and Link's green is so dark that I hardly find it a problem.
Those splashes in the water look extremely off to me. I don't really know how to explain it, but the shape oh those splashes are so round and unnatural for me. At least I'm used to see strongly splashing water drawn with sharp edges, not round.
Other than the sky and water (that blue just looks awful to me) this is colored really well. I specially like those trees and the fact Link looks darker in your scan doesn't bother me, I actually like it (at least it's much better than him being awfully pale even while he's an adventurer who spends a lot time outdoors, little tan on him is just natural imo). The fish looks good, too.
Overall, a nice piece but some parts could use some improvement.
...there was a fishing part in Majora's Mask? ._.'
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... you know, the more i look at the water, the more i hate it :'D i don't know what i was thinking when I drew it like that, wanted it to look like a stream i guess, but it's awful. the sky's not much better, that white line in the middle bothers me to no end. i think i'm gonna recolor them (i did them with acrylics anyway, much easier to correct than watercolours)
as for the splash, i tried to do with sharp edges at first, but i didn't like the way it looked, so i tried round. i saw both versions being fairly good looking (maybe it looks off because there isn't much texture, my scanner in general goot rid of a lot of greens in the water)
i'm glad you like link tho, he's honestly the thing i'm most proud in this drawing~ (good point with the tan too)
yeah, there's the grand total of 2 fishing holes, one in the swamp, one in zora cape. i even did fanart of the ocean one once
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I was thinking there was a fishing place at swamp but I don't remember there being another at Zora's place...and I've played MM fairly recently (a month or two ago) and doing all kinds of side stuff I missed on my playthrough
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that's fair enough, mm is full of little things like that and they're easy to miss (i've still got 3 pieces of heart that i can't find, i've combed through the entire game, i don't know where they are. 3!!)
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Aah, I know the struggle too well...I think I mentioned to you that I was missing a single piece of heart in Twilight Princess. After hours of searching (with help of a guide) I decided to check one last I hadn't rechecked, one chest in Temple of Time. And guess what, it was there :'D
Just mind you, I had went through every other dungeon in the game, some even multiple times just to make sure the missing piece of heart wasn't in them. It took me weeks. And it was literally in the last place I hadn't checked.
...welp, good luck with finding the missing three! I'm not even trying to find all pieces of heart in MM, I'm just going after the masks and I'm missing only two of them. The other one is the postman mask that iirc requires going through whole Kafei & Anju quest and I'm really not feeling like doing that whole thing again, not after seeing how it ended, it broke my heart D:
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lol it's always the worst if you're down to one missing piece of heart (i had that in link's awakening. still don't know where it is), especially if it's one in a dungeon. that's why i always try to collect every single chest in each dungeon i go, that's the one place i don't wanna go back to. it's even more frustrating in games like TP because you need 5 pieces of hearts for a heart container, so you got even more research to do :'D
i honestly don't mind redoing the anju and kafei sidequest, it's probably my favourite in the franchise even if it is pretty depressing, have you seen what happens if you don't catch the sun mask on time. you kinda need to go through it a few times anyway, because not only do you get several masks out of it, but also other items like pieces of heart and a bottle. what's the other mask you're missing?
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Kaifei & Anju quest is amazing, that ending left me almost speechless (I was stressing the eff out when the final countdown started and Kafei were nowhere to see, I was like "dammit boy your future wife is waiting what the heck man". That final countdown is like the most stressing thing for me in MM and this quest didn't make it any better)
Now I gotta go and check this possible alternative outcome...Majora's Mask is really full of those and it's really interesting how you can trigger these bad outcomes but still get a happy ending in the game. The time traveling mechanic is unique and I love it.
I'm missing the fierce deity mask, but you can get that only by trading all your masks away.
Dunno if I'm even gonna do all the hassle for postman mask...Don Gero's mask was enough trouble for me. It took me forever to figure out how to light all torches in Goron place (in the end I had to look up from a guide: it told me to use bunny hood mask. I felt so stupid for not realizing that), then it took me a while to get the goron treat thingy from the chandelier, carry it where the poor hungry goron was, but woops, it was spring and the goron wasn't there, so I had to go back in time, do all that stuff again BEFORE making it spring in snowhead, and get the stupid mask so I could do the frog quest. Never again.
Hey, just a thought...you get some pieces of heart from the moon, I think it was three overall, maybe it's those you're missing?
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it's actually best if you complete the anju and kafei sidequest before fighting majora, since you get a cutscene of their wedding in the end credits and it's super cheesy and i love it. mm is probably the only game tho that can fill you with anxiety, i absolutely love the 3 day mechanic but boi is it stressful to see, especially the final hours. kafei shows up literally 1 minute before the moon crashes, it's unnerving
i never bothered trying to get the fierce diety mask because i wasn't able to make it past one of the trials of the moon kids (can't remember which one) no matter how hard i tried. it's not those hearts i'm missing because i know that you get about one in each trial, so i counted them amongst the ones i'm missing. those other 3 are those that i have no clue whatsoever about where they could be...
i was super proud of myself for figuring out how to get don gero's mask, the quest you have to do afterwards to get the piece of heart from the frog choir was a lot more annoying to me, because two of those frogs are in dungeons, so you have to make it all the way through the forest and water temples, fight them, then show the mask so that they can go back to the pond in mountain village. that's way too much work for a measly piece of heart. another endlessly tedious quest is trying to get the gilded sword. you have to free the goron race track with the giant bomb (so carry it there as a goron before it explodes), then you have to win the race at least twice to get the stupid gold powder, but you have to do it all in the first day since it takes at least a day for the swordsmith to do the sword, but you also have to go back in time at least once because you need to upgrade the sword twice, and before you can even do that you need water from the hot spring so that you can melt the ice from the oven (why you can't just use a fire arrow i don't know), but you need to be fast before the water cools down and becomes useless. i'll admit, the gilded sword is pretty cool, but it's such a pain to get.
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Funny story tho, iirc after I had finished the Kafei & Anju quest I ran to the bank to deposit some money before playing song of time, it was incredibly stressful :'P
Majora's Mask's unique mechanics (the time system and masks) and the dark mood of the game are probably the reasons why it stands out much more than Ocarina of Time to me. I haven't really touched OoT after finishing it, but I've played MM a lot.
Getting the sword upgrade wasn't so bad imo, only the minigame was a bit annoying because of all that stuff you needed to do (beat the boss at Snowhead temple, not that I'm complaining because I love that boss) to get access to it.
That being said, going back to two dungeons and getting the frogs wasn't that funny. Specially because the other dungeon was the one at Zora's and that place is like a maze. I'll admit it, I wandered around there aimlessly until I found the damn thing.
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Yes.
... If I remember correctly there actually were two .. or was it two shooting galleries? 0.o
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There were two: one in Clock town and one at swamp. I know this because I've played Majora's Mask recently and did both shooting gallery minigames
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You're an inspiration to my watercolour-fueled art rampages ;-;
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aww, your watercolours are really good as well<3
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