I'm So Flipping Happy With How This Turned Out! I Actually Managed To Draw Her Magical Sunflower Eyes!!!!!

Day 1 dinner break

Working with black is always scary because I'm always worried it will just spread and make everything muddy.

Rythum assignment from class. I wanted to make each element a different song. Im calling this the first draft.

Version 2 of my OC that I made as a 3d model for class. Still needs a lot of polishing, BUT LOOK! Its my girl!

More shots and sketches below cut.

Streaming lego starwars Skywalker saga over on twitch at shlie_mae! Come say hi

Was watching drawfee and got inspired to try and draw something a bit out of my comfort zone. First two are just different shots of the same image because I like how it turned out.

Third is my attempt at a prompt. Fourth is the same character from the first, I tried to do some stuff with pose and perspective. I had to redo the pose like three times and it just got worse from there.

Link sketch dump

I got a bit distracted the other day and designed a Link. I don’t remember what inspired me to do this, but I had fun nonetheless. In the process of designing her look I also came up with a bunch of little ideas about her.

I would place her story somewhere between Spirit Tracks and Breath of the Wild. Although, I headcanon Hyrule Warriors as being at the point when the three timelines merge, so it would be before that. Before she became the hero she worked as either a blacksmith, an engineer or maybe both. She wears pegasus boots and prefers the sword over a bow.

She is deaf, and because of this doesn't talk. Near the start of her quest, she meets the fairy Emcee who helps her navigate and talk to people. A while later she receives a Great Fairy’s Earing as a gift. The earing has been enchanted to work as a hearing aid for her. She loves using it to hear Emcee and the sounds of the forest but doesn't like to use it in towns because she finds all of the noise overwhelming. She communicates mostly through sign language, or by having Emcee speak for her. After getting the Great Fairy’s Earing she chooses not to learn to speak because she sees no need when she can communicate just fine with sign in most circumstances. Except for that jerk in Castle Town.

Emcee and Link can communicate through a kind of magical telepathy, which is mostly used in combat situations. Outside of combat Link uses sign, and Emcee uses a form of morse code with her glow. Emcee insists that she is skilled in speaking sign language, but no one can see her hands so the point is mute.

I’m just gonna state that I am not deaf, nor do I personally know anyone who is, so if I’ve done something wrong, or been offensive in any way, please let me know so I can change. I started playing with the idea of making her deaf because I was thinking about the fact that many canon links have varying degrees of mutism for various reasons, and I began brainstorming a list of reasons why someone might be mute. I started leaning toward deafness when I was watching a youtube video and a deaf man was explaining why he chooses not to speak even though he did learn when he was younger. the way he described it like learning a new language, and how it is a skill that if you don't use you will lose it, made me see it in a new light. In the end, I choose to make her deaf because I’m studying game design and the idea of making a game with a deaf protagonist seemed really interesting to me. I think it would be a cool way to make people think about what it is like to live a different life. It would also make an interesting challenge to make a game that has no sound-based puzzles in it. I think the world could use more heroes who aren't “normal”, kids need to see that anyone can be a hero regardless of what they were born with or without.

Quick doodle, going for super hero vibes.

Inktober time!!! Going to be using my children from the comic I will likely never write.

Lunch time