As We Lay Dying - Zelda

Agggh Ivy League Risk has fried my brain. Anyway, this is some more TP!Zelink for Kotukawi aka The Missing Link for ~zeldaexchange. Uhh I wanted something vaguely angsty so I thought, well what's better than if they're separated?! HUH? Exactly. But yeah I spent most of the first half of October working on this... it's probably the most effort I've ever put into a background, heh.

Also yes the title is modified from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, a book which holds nothing but bad memories for me, but it sounds pretty so nyeh.

Done with a tablet in Photoshop CS.

Ref for poses: Getty Images
Refs for the castle, costumes, etc.: [link]
Grass texture: [link] by *gild-a-stock

Colored House will be up within the month (I hope), and then there's always HP, Zelda, and a tiny bit of Disney (haha oh man, kiriban) on the backburner. Rawr.

Also, because I worked on this at such a giant size, I'll be uploading some detail shots. Uh, eventually.

And in Zelda-related news, Reggie Fils-Aime is coming to Cornell to speak tomorrow, and hellz yeah I'm gonna be there!