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The hero of Winds....(Again) Did you ever had a stranger sudden impulse to draw one of your favorite character? Haha that is the reason why this draw came to be lol
When I was in college, my Stage Craft teacher showed us this. Basically the machine heats up a sheet of plastic, and once it’s malleable enough it’ll be blown up to make room for whatever you want to imprint in the plastic. Once it’s in place, the air reverses and the plastic vacuum-sucks all around the object.
He demonstrated it on a baby doll and it was like a baby had been frozen in carbonite. I got to take it home and I still have frozen-carbonite-baby to this day (his name is Franklin XD)
Three left to do after this but take these doodles
Yapping on bug species and design below (and rehashing some stuff for myself since it's been months):
Wind is a Water Strider! I was bouncing between a few for him but I feel like being able to skate across water was a fun concept so that's also why he doesn't have shoes. I also gave him some ocean and pirate related stuff such as a conch on his belt and a coat around his back (I also gave his a bandana around his wrist because I wanted him to kinda match with Tetra's crew). Originally I had more ideas like a coral headpiece but I feel like it'd just be a hassle to draw in the future not to mention would encroach on some of my plans for Wild.
Sky is a Luna/Moon Moth. I mentioned it on earlier posts for this AU but originally he and all Skyloftians were gonna be various Plume Moth species but I figured it'd be hard to tell they were bugs :/ not to mention a pain to draw. Instead he is a Luna Moth specifically because I like the idea of his Zelda, Sun, literally being a Sun Moth, and then they can pair as the sun and moon. He has some more subtle design things, like some red markings and hair to represent his loftwing (who are normal sized birds in this AU).
Wars is a butterfly, and specifically a Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly! I'll draw the wings better on my HQ design sheets in the future. Honestly Wars was one of the first species I was confident in, not only because I really liked the idea of having the wings blend in with his scarf, but also one of the movies that inspired this AU (Strange Magic, which I highly recommend) has an antagonist that I can't unsee as looking similar to Wars hfiuhf. He was originally gonna have an outfit more loyal to LU-canon, but I kinda went off midway when drawing this. For the designs I wanted Wars and Wild to be pretty similar in terms of design inspirations because their Hyrules are advanced. Because of this I really wanted to capture more of that traditional elvish feel but in two different kinda ways (which you won't be able to compare until I finish Wild). So Wars kinda gives off that nobleman high-elf vibe hopefully. Also long hair because I couldn't help myself.
Legend is a mantis that was naturally green, but due to shenanigans when he turned into a rabbit the first time he retained the pink color. Afterwards, he was mistaken for a flower mantis and decided to roll with it. Because of this I went into a more traditional fairy-like outfit from media like the Disney Fairy movies (Another inspiration, and was in fact basically the first version of this AU which can probably be found on the LU discord eventually) and gave the appearance that his clothes were actually plant-based material; the right, red side of his outfit is based off a hibiscus petal while the left pink is like a rose petal.
Rulie is a firefly that, compared to the others, I wanted to give a more humble, subtle design. He keeps most of his clothes from LU-canon but I also gave him a moss cape/hood not only because I just found it really cute, but also because I figured he would want ways to hide noticeable features on himself - for example, he has facial markings and freckles that have a slight glow, along with his antennae. In general his color palette has a much more earthy tone to it than the other guys.
Four was originally gonna be with Wild who was supposed to be here as well. Four is a beetle and Wild is gonna be a dragonfly!!! Time and Twi are the two guys I'm kinda stumped on at this point because I have a list of bugs I wouldn't mind them being, but I just need to narrow it down and figure out what I'm gonna even do with their outfits.
Hope y'all don't mind the yapping I hope it makes sense lol. I appreciate the support that I've received and I'm glad people like this concept as well
Hope y'all don't mind some Time mock-ups for the Bug Fairy AU
I'm really glad I took the comment suggesting a hercules beetle into account bc turns out I really like the idea of the horn + side antennae not to mention I needed another beetle anyways
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