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https://archiveofourown.org/works/58326514/chapters/167576230

Chapter 19 of ITAOWOBTY is up!

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my thought process for my clowns0up-felix coh link design, as requested by @clowns0up-felix himself

so, first things first: the designs i used as reference!

i took notes on these! which i will now share

Heights very variable

Bright colours

Tends to at least resemble canon palette/design

Lots of facial scars/acne/freckles/etc

Clothing borders/patterns semi-common

Lots of green tunics

Pants are often patterned or otherwise funky (riding pants common)

No hat most common. Bananas almost as common as hats

A lot of turtlenecks

...and then i took notes on how i should interpret that for the coh link design.

Give him freckles

Green bandana? That might make him too similar to Rift (and Sailor)

Turtleneck

Darken skin?

here's the design i ended up with:

as you can see: i did end up slightly darkening his skin and giving him freckles and a turtleneck. ended up ditching the bandana, since other designs already had one

stuff that was not covered in the notes! i gave him flowly sleeves because i thought that would be fun with the dance-fighting he does. i based his hair on Lupine's, i thought that spiky style fit him well. based the baggy pants on Mural's pants.

had an internal debate over whether or not to add the lining to the tunic- on one hand, almost ALL of clowns0up-felix's link designs have either a pattern or a solid border on the tunic. on the other hand, Mage already has a very similar green tunic/gold border thing going on. ended up deciding to keep the border. if two of clowns0up-felix's designs can have green bandana's, two of them can have green tunics with simple gold borders.

gave him the boots of speed. i didn't put this in the notes but most of the reference designs have unique shoes, so i didn't want to just use the basic ones. adhered mostly to their canon design, but i ditched the golden... whatever it is... between the wings. clowns0up-felix's designs have a delicate balance of complex and simplified, and i figured slightly simplifying the already complex boots of speed would work best.

i mostly used the standard coh palette. blue eyes. blond hair. green tunic with brown undershirt. white pants. as with all the coh designs i did, i initially coloured this directly colourpicked from coh link's official art, and then colourpicked from my reference designs and used saturation and brightness layers to adjust them until they looked right.

when i was done with all that, i decided it still didn't look quite right- the pants were too basic. riding pants didn't feel right here as horses do not exist in coh, so i gave them a pattern based on... well, really it's based on the roc's cape, but coh doesn't have on of those. he has the rito feather. but it looks a lot like a roc's feather anyway, so it's fine. close enough

finally, the background! in the original post, i put all the links together on a gradient background, and then had their separate images under the cut, with individual backgrounds for all of them. probably the most accurate way to do it would be a plain white background, as that's how clowns0up-felix shows his link designs, but that's boring, so i put a coloured rectangle in the background, like how ravio and the four swords boys have

and that's how i made this design! i think i was pretty accurate, but he does still look a bit simple compared to clowns0up-felix's other designs, so i don't think i was quite spot on

things i like about this design:

i'm a big fan of the freckles. my personal coh link design has freckles too though so i may be biased.

i really like how the hair came out.

the sleeves are fun.

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I would not mind at all!! I would be honoured actually

after playing COH, i'm a bit sad to see how underrepresented it is in links meet aus (and just in general.) luckily, i am an artist, so i thought i'd try designing what COH link would look like if he was redesigned by various artists!

(aus/artists these are based on, from left to right: @linkeduniverse, @author-main, @sable-skies, @cokoakeostuff, @the-phantom-peach, @linked-maze, @minas-linkverse, and @clowns0up-felix)

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after playing COH, i'm a bit sad to see how underrepresented it is in links meet aus (and just in general.) luckily, i am an artist, so i thought i'd try designing what COH link would look like if he was redesigned by various artists!

(aus/artists these are based on, from left to right: @linkeduniverse, @author-main, @sable-skies, @cokoakeostuff, @the-phantom-peach, @linked-maze, @minas-linkverse, and @clowns0up-felix)

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/58326514/chapters/166388995

Chapter 18 of ITAOWOBTY is up!

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messed around with some brushes

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places you can find me if tumblr explodes: bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/t-5seconds.bsky.social pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/t-5seconds ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/T_5Seconds

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/58326514/chapters/165194956

Chapter 17 of ITAOWOBTY is up!

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there's not nearly enough link/cadence/zelda art out there so i've used @mcnuggyy's polyam trio art memes to make some

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what did they put in coh's sprites to make them this fun to edit

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a wild flower appeared!!

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/58326514/chapters/164121838

Chapter 16 of ITAOWOBTY is up!

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more of my guys as COH sprites, this time the noncanon links

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ghirafi + petnames

(based on this text exchange <- i have no idea if that's the og source but it's the oldest upload of the image i can find)

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so, it turns out that editing sprites to look like my guys is really fun. here's the whole main squad of cr as COH sprites

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new wind design!

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/58326514/chapters/163037395

Chapter 15 of ITAOWOBTY is up!