With august approaching I would like to update you on the fact that I'm slowly working on the prompts and similar ! As such if you would like to request a prompt, my inbox is open ! There're no wrong prompts as long as it stays respectful. I will still let the opportunity for people to use the previous year's prompts aka:
So I might avoid prompts for above or only reuse the "best"
This time I fully intent to work on a list of prompts without day in order to leave the freedom to everyone to choose and do whatever the hell they wish since I've realized doing one specific prompt per day isn't really a good idea and I burnt myself over it last year which I guess other did too !
I will probably keep a section for prompts and another for like starting up with "designing a gerudo oc" or similar to help people flesh out their gerudo ocs in a respectful manner !
i guess i can develop ghost zant au? bc in the end of twipri we see him killing Ganondorf and i don't think that he found peace like rutela after her son was saved sooo
but i have exams soon and may not have enough time to work on this au
It sounds exciting... Will wait for you're new ideas about it.(I always liked theories and headcanon stories. I'm mostly think about main characters, goddesses and demons)
Chrono Trigger-ified some Zelda characters! Actually, these are all 3-4-ish years old at this point, but I feel like I've never posted them? Not on Tumblr, at least? Which is a shame, I still find most of them cute.
OoT Ganondorf looks uncannily similar to Magus, so all of his sprites are mostly recolors with the hair cut down.
And the bunny is meant to be Ravio, taking Frog's role, but his color palette is kind of a reference to ALttP, hence the weird red robe.
I got an ask about how I figured out my Gilgamesh + Enkidu designs but tumblr deleted it ://// And I've been meaning to write out my design choices for ages, so whoever you are thank you!
I'm a bit of fashion history enjoyer and I like to research historical context but as is the nature of EOG it can get muddy as all we really know about its time period is that it takes even further in the past than the Sumerians so I've improvised a lot
I try to use a mix of primary sources (I tend to go artefacts found from the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC), descriptions from the Epic itself with a few later Akkadian/Assyrian influences!
This is gonna be long :
Facial Features and Bodies
Gilgamesh ( all these quotes are from the Helle translation!)
The text constantly talks about how young Gil is in the grand scheme and i've always found that so interesting, he's supposed to be pretty and dolled up, he' still a big guy but a lot leaner in my head, compared to say when he gets older he'd fill out even more!
I go the blue hair route as I like how its a good signifier he's not fully human. As for styling of said hair, I use his hair as symbolism of how rogue Gil is, he is described as having a restless heart and hair being styles so intricalty doesn't fit with that for me. So i forgo it just for his curls instead
I do ignore the cubit heights personally, tbh if I was in ancient times and saw someone 2 metres tall or more I'd also be like tf. They're both still huge just for the time period it makes it very exaggerated, for example Shamhat is like 1.6m in my head so she's pretty tall compared to the average. < just a personal choice lol
Enkidu
Enkidu is a lot softer solely cause we're going with the clay theme lol, he has a warm undertone for that reason actually. I chose to keep only bull ears and horns for his post 'humanisation' as I think it's interesting if the only bits of his past life he has, he cannot even see unlike say a tail or legs.
Hair wise same as Gil, I don't think he could stand to sit around and have it styled, PLUS i think its so thick like wool it would be a bit impossible too. Hair is kept long as well as I do think it would be intersting for him to lean more towards womans style of fashion, because of his proximity to Shamhat, this goes the same with clothes.
Clothes and Patterns
Clothing is the thing I'm most 'liberal' with mixing up as the nature of fashion is that we lose it to time
A lot of the cuts for things I gather from reliefs and statues, on the left is a woman and I tend to give both Enkidu and Shamhat this for reasons I said before. But I also take a lot creative liberty as I enjoy drawing clothes.
For patterns I use the most anachronistic source of Assyrian designs because I really like the mix between Geometric and 'Natural' shapes. I am a big fan of patterns so if it works it works I'll get it into the stuff I like.
A lot of the jewellery I reference is directly from the Royal Cemetary of Ur, I love how much lapis is used in crafts so i always try to include it if i remember.
At the end of the day there's no wrong way to go about designing them, it's so fun seeing how different people inteperet them they're very malleable characters!
