LnkSketch

watercolor on bristol

6.875" x 8.125"

buying info at the SubSubShop (SOLD).

I call this thing a sketch because I drew it for fun, with no planning ahead of time, making it up as I went along. Watercolor is very forgiving when it comes to things like this, and I was able to make significant changes along the way, like washing out whole buildings or adding cracks on the statue. Things like that.


I really got carried away with this. The last few weeks have been kind of tumultuous for my personal life, so I was grateful to have something like this to get lost in for a few hours everyday. I think if things were going normally I might have dashed this off as quickly as the rest of my sketches, or I might not have done it at all.


I started playing Skyward Sword a few weeks ago. It's the kind of game where they reveal bits and pieces of the world to you a little at a time, but you quickly understand the scope, and that there is a lot to come. This feeling of vast, unexplored territory is always exciting, and for me, creatively inspiring. It's like when you see a book cover, and you immediately start to imagine all kinds of things that could happen. As excited as I am to play the video game, I found myself choosing to work on this rather than that. I don't really know why. But it's over now, I can't spend any more time on it and now I'm selling the original. (sold) It's waaay overpriced, but I don't think I'll be sad if no one buys it. Also, I'll be making cheap prints of it for this spring's convention season.