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I'm back to drawing Astor again, someone save me

He's so serious looking. Anyway, I'm practicing drawing him in preparation for next month, it'll be a blast

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Day 2: Corrupted

I’m such a sucker for this AU 😖 Give me all the angst

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The Substance (2024) // Shrek (2001) & Shrek 2 (2004)

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The Rito Champion: Ravioli

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Here’s a bunch of doodles sketches and other miscellaneous drawings I’ve been hiding away on my iPad for the last month 😂

I love the kids

(Yes I posted the mipha and Sidon one before but it belongs with this set)

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archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

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Rito's are as flexible as they need to be, and Revali's the most flexible because of course he is.

Revali bending himself in unimaginable ways just so he doesn’t have to ask for help with grooming just feels so real to me

(also poor Link having a crisis over it)

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Quick character study cuz m'boy is hard to draw. Also, currently succumbing to bird-man brainrot hours against my will.

Looking for art inspo—askbox open for suggestions! Echoes of Wisdom might keep me busy for a bit though...

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🤔🤔

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Yeah I ghostwrote this post it seems.

But that’s true. I owe AOC more than an apology. I remember after finishing TotK (but also whilst playing it) that I looked right at my friend and told her: I am so sorry for saying AoC was bad. TotK is so much worse and it hurts because it’s a canonical Zelda game, canonical to the BotW universe.

The amount of details in AOC were impeccable. It’s true, writing is a little bad but at least it was something NEW. Even if it was a HW game. There were so many cutscene to make a whole 2 hour movie, dammit and even if they messed up the story and some of the characters it was fun playing it.

If you played Age of Calamity and sneered at it for daring to interpret the story of Breath of the Wild a little differently and then went on to play Tears of the Kingdom, you owe Age of Calamity an apology.

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As an ornithologist I think about these everyday

Bird traits I want to know if Rito posess:

-Hollow bones so they're light enough to fly. Wouldn't this make them kinda glass canon fighters? Fragile lads.

-The ability to see way more colours than humans/other species can because of their extra cones. Apparently birds can see patterns on Human skin we don't even realise we have. Is Rito vision also uber-colourful?

-Swallowing food whole because they have no teeth. Relying on their gizzard to do the breaking down of food. Rito clearly cook - are they making themselves cakes and pies and then just....swallowing them whole??? Does the concept of chewing make sense to them?

-They have significantly less taste buds than most mammals, and also lack the ability to experience spice. How bland is Rito food?

-Birds don't sweat, they release heat through their tongues by panting. Do Rito pant??? That's an unsettling mental image.

-Birds go to the bathroom and lay their eggs through the same opening, which is horrifying enough. Most bird species lay infertile eggs either periodically or via hormone stimulation induced by feelings of safety. Is laying eggs like having periods to Rito?

-I don't need to tell you how birds feed their young. I fear considering this.

-A lot of bird species will instinctively go to sleep if plunged into darkness (hence why people put little caps over trained birds eyes, or throw blankets over budgie cages at night). If you covered a Rito's eyes, would they doze off?

-Do you think they go through nesting periods like birds do when it's egg laying season? Desperately hunting for soft things by instinct.

Feel free to add more bird facts. It's the middle of the night and I'm just fascinated thinking of the logistics and just how similar or not they would be to real birds.

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Oh revali~♥︎

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REVALI SKETCHES BECAUSE I LOVE HIM SO SO MUCH

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It’s 2024 and I still remember back then when I complained a lot about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity's writing and plot holes but then canon game and canon sequel Tears of the Kingdom came out. And I’m like: MAYBE AOC plot holes weren’t that bad.

Sometimes I hardly believe that TotK is a canon sequel to BotW. It seems like it’s written by people who haven’t even played BotW a single time.

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The more I play of BotW (post TotK) the more questions I come away with.

The Rito Village Elder giving you Revali's bow and Teba being like "yeah you can borrow this, it's too heavy for any Rito alive to wield properly even me". Then in TotK, Teba gives it to his like, nine year old child. Like here, fledgling who is half my size and isn't strong enough to pull a bow the traditional way yet and has to use your beak, take this giant heavy bow even I can't handle.

Also special mention of the fact Revali's bow is canonical made with diamonds. Pop off little king with your diamond encrusted bow. Iconic behaviour. He's a diva your honour.

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