Sketch Dailies is a website/exercise where every single day, artists from around the world — many of them top professionals — get together and contribute drawings based on a theme. Yesterday’s theme was “Link”.
While some took it as a chance to simply bring their favourite character to life, others got a little more creative, revealing ideas for the character that I wish Nintendo was brave enough to try out.
Some of these designs go for a radically different style for Link, some, like Austin Light’s pic below see him as a Dark Souls character, others re-imagine the character himself.
What I’m posting below is just a selection of the pieces committed; you can see all of them at Sketch Dailies’ site.
The images below are (from top-to-bottom) by Katie Jin, Kim Herbst, Scott Brooke, MegaMon, Marek Jarocki, Yingjue Chen, Elizabeth Turnsek, Mingjue Helen Chen (yes, it’s Zelda-as-Link, not Link) and dodger.
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4 responses to “It’s Link, Just Not As You Know Him”
Holy crap 3rd pic down…. creepy
Reminds me of VGcats from 2004’ish.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=118
Link you monster!
Zac Gorman and Jacob Smiley’s Zelda (fan) art is some of the best, too. Really lovely imaginings.