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Published: 2012-10-11 11:58:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 21924; Favourites: 685; Downloads: 1776
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Aka "Legend of Zelda meets John William Waterhouse".Remember that I once made a sketch of Link and Zelda re-enacting this waterhouse painting of Lancelot and Guinevere?
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Well, I was in the mood, so I did it in colour. Disney’s The Sword in the Stone was running in the background while I sketched it, that should tell you. There’s that certain scene in Skyward Sword when Link rescues Zelda which so made me think of this painting. It had to be done, you know? Somehow I always thought Zelda goes well with Arthurian legend parodies. That started long ago when I played Ocarina of Time and my dad commented on little Link pulling out the master sword with the words (and I quote): „Are you king of England now?“.
Anywayyy, so since I‘m still in the mood, I might finally do one or two Arthurian comic pages before this year is over. We’ll see.
It doesn’t look like Waterhouse at all, but at least I bothered adopting my style a little bit to his. You wouldn’t believe how much fun I had with their ridiculously adopted hair.
100% watercolour.
EDIT: WTF, 198 messages? People you’re crazed… Just admit the idea cracks you up the same way it cracks up myself
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Comments: 148
I instantly recognised the reference to the Waterhouse painting when I saw yours. It's beautiful and very impressive, especially considering that it is watercolor.
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This is beyond beautiful... 100% watercolour?!?! that's impressive
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Er well, there’s paper underneath of course
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Sir Link?
Die Dame (Zelda?) gefällt mir richtig gut.
Ich finde es schön, dass Du Dich am Original orientierst und trotzdem ganz klar Dein eigenes Ding machst.
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So ein Ölgemälde von Waterhouse 1:1 nachmachen könnte ich auch leider gar nicht
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Macht nichts. Diese Sorte Ölgemälde gibt es wie Sand am Meer
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Das stimmt schon. Aber ich mag halt auch die alten Meister, Klassizismus und Ölmalerei allgemein. Ist nur offensichtlich nichts für mich. Irgendwie schade.
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Find gar nicht, dass das so schade ist.
Jeder geht seinen Weg. Und das ist gut so!
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Joa, aber ich mag's halt und würd’s auch gerne können, auch wenn ich das Aquarellieren nicht missen will…
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That's absolutely lovely. You are crazy good with details in watercolour. And depth. And contrast. And like... everything!
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The paper helps, it allows quite dark shadows. It’s still by far not as detailed and contrastive as Waterhouse’s oil painting, but I didn’t seriously expect that anyway.
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I find it so hard to be able to do detailed work like this in watercolor. You certainly are amazing!
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There’s an easy trick: just wobble around with lots of dark colour on a thin brush and voila, it looks as if you had spent hours and hours on detailling
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Ah that makes sense! I'll try that next time. Thanks for the useful tip!
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It’s a trial and error thing, really
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I believe it's absolutely wonderfully done. The detail is amazing (I can't wrap my head around watercolor at all), and the style shift still works very well and remains recognizable.
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I'm glad if that worked. Weird cross-overs can end up really unfortunate, but I figured Waterhouse might look lovely here.
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I love the original painting, and I think this interpretation of it really does it justice.
Great job!
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Now that‘s good news 
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The level of detail you manage to put in your watercolour work is really amazing. Especially on textured paper!
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That’s still nothing compared to the detail in the original Waterhouse painting
Anyway, this paper is really cooperative, it allows lots of colour layers and deep shadows, and the texture is shallow enough to allow small details.
So this works very well for me
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I believe your painting makes up for that in size x)
I't very intersting to see your sketch-to-painting process too, even if I forgot to comment (as always...). I get distracted by all the pretty paintings!
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I'm very well aware that I’m spamming pictures these days, but that will have to end soon, anyway. University and stuff. I'm enjoying my last days of freedom on earth *tries not to think of those five term papers next semester*.
And I'm glad if you think it’s worthwhile posting both the sketch and the painting! It makes me feel better when spamming your inboxes…
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I don't mind this kind of spam. In fact, stuff like what you've been posting is what makes me come back and check this here inbox so...
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This is really very nice! I love the colors in it. Very beautifully done!
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