Art: This Young Artist Makes Awesome Hyrule Warriors Masterpieces

Cool.

They are extremely talented and all, but it looks like a copy. I'm not that impressed by copies.

Impressive.

@LUIGITORNADO The Mona Lisa is a copy. People seem to be impressed by that. In fact, most famous paintings are of actual people or actual landscapes. It still takes a huge amount of talent even if you have a reference

I am jelly of this amount of skill. Can I get this a poster of this?

Would be more impressed if they could draw another character in the style if Hyrule Warriors instead of looking at what's there already and copying from official artwork. Still nice looking.

This art looks very amazing, I definitely can't draw at this level myself. Though I would love this art even more if it was in unique poses instead of being exactly like the Official Artwork. Yes, we all use references but even then we usually tend to have the art looking completely different from the original source. Overall I love this art despite my nitpicking.

This art is impressive. On a related note though, the first review of Hyrule Warriors has been released by Famitsu. It achieved a score of 36/40, with each reviewer giving it a 9/10 (Although don't be surprised if it doesn't get 9/10 in the West).

Big whoop. I'm 17 and I drew this when I was 16:

This has a MUCH greater level of detail than these portraits and even has my own stylised take on the source material, unlike these print copies of another image.
Lemme put it like this, there are Artists (people with taste and talent) and then their are Devianartists (people with who can draw really really well)

@PvtOttobot yes, that level of detail is just stunning.

Very good. I wish I could draw like that.

@PvtOttobot not sure if you are serious

This talented young artist also impressed me:

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAAC8UKEKgPlVPA

I drew this yesterdayhttps://d3esbfg30x759i.cloudfront.net/ss/zlCfzSSoNAojQPp-m7
And it only took me 20+ hours. I wish I could draw that fast...and with such little trial and error. (I know the video was sped up)

@shigulicious About what?

@Sapphire Cheers!

https://d3esbfg30x759i.cloudfront.net/ss/zlCfzSSoNAojQPp-m7

Fixed

UGH these are amazing. I want this talent

They're good, especially with the shadows. But she needs to improve on the shaping end, since both Link and Zelda's face look a bit too round and asymmetric. Nice nonetheless.

@PvtOttobot Looks very unique and stylish, gotta give you that. Your picture looks almost like a concept painting, like those shown in artbooks. Kudos to you!

I want to swear. I'm 16 and an aspiring artist, and I could NEVER draw like that!! I still can BARELY draw a human figure, much less color and shade them with such mastery! GOD!! I hate my curse of no talent!!!!!

Every time man, I get on the FREAKING internet to look at artwork and somebody is eighty-seven times better than me, and my exact age. (usualy younger)

@PvtOttobot
LA-DI FREAKIN'-DA!

Looks good, the artist has the potential to develop their own style in the near future.

@Spectator well put

Holy Moly.

@Kaze_Memaryu Thanks, it's what I was kind of going for, I actually work in oil pastels irl if I'm not just doing a pencil sketch or digital (that ^)

Oh yeah, I also do pixel art, for my game development:

all of the sprites/backgrounds are mine.

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/332/6/6/my_persona_3_fan_art_by_bendercade-d4hlvdv.jpg
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/332/8/1/my_ragna_the_bloodedge_fan_art_by_bendercade-d4hmexx.jpg
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/332/a/6/my_neku_sakuraba_fan_art_1_by_bendercade-d4hlvx4.jpg
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/332/a/d/my_ikaruga_fan_art_by_bendercade-d4hminc.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/332/e/3/my_neku_sakuraba_fan_art_2_by_bendercade-d4hlw5p.jpg
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/332/9/5/my_cloud_strife_fan_art_by_bendercade-d4hlwk7.jpg
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/332/9/8/my_allen_walker_fan_art_by_bendercade-d4hlwu1.jpg
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/332/5/e/my_edward_elric_fullmetal_alchemist_fan_art_by_bendercade-d4hmfxo.jpg
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/332/c/3/my_sora_fan_art_by_bendercade-d4hme8n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/p417x417/384085_101212136660749_111022945_n.jpg
Look at my devianarts and tell me how many pen strokes per image you see haha... Boredom in school goes a long way.

@KTT I always recommend sketching in pencil, then going over the pencil in black ink, then shade using a very light pen.. At least that's what I did (in my pictures above), I felt that shading with the pen added a nice depth to my drawings..

Hes a good copy artist

Her mouth is crooked. Otherwise, nice on with colored pencils. Not bad.

@LUIGITORNADO That's how people learn by copying not by tracing though.By looking at a picture and just drawing it.One more thing you must be an amazing artist if you're not impressed by this, cause i'm guessing you can make an original drawing of zelda link right friendo?

Nice dedication to precision and shading. Tons of problems all over with dimensionality. Strange foreshortening and shading. Link's elbow looks like it's going in not out. Zelda's forehead looks like it was dented inwards with the crown digging in deep where the center jewel is and the spike even indenting the center of her head. Her necklace is digging into her chest on one side.

Those are the types of problems that come from copying artwork rather than life... and just lack of experience in general. Lots of nice areas of color and mixing two tones and staying away from black for shadows so it doesn't get muddy. This artist is experienced in technique at least.

Learning to make your own artwork is going to be a mixture of copying what you see both directly and from your imagination BUT it's also understanding how to abstract that into lines or whatever medium you are using.

So copying and seeing how others accomplish those goals is defnitely recommended, but learning how to imagine it all in 3D and be able to draw it in your own style with an original composition is not only more fun, but is the kind of rewarding skill that people will pay you for.

@KTT @Yorumi
Hmm... everyone can draw better, but certain intrinsic traits are going to make it easier for some people to become great at it. I want to say, "if it feels like work maybe it's not your thing" but getting better takes way more practice than most people realize so you have to keep that in mind.

I do think that everyone should doodle and draw and try out different styles of art. Art is the skill of abstracting for communication. It's valuable in just about every field of study. Even if it just feels like silly fun, make it a habit and give it some attention.

Also, if you have the desire and it's fun definitely keep at it and seek out structured learning from a book or classes. Don't let someone get you down because of where your current skills are.

There have been many that persue a skill that they have no knack for or real desire for that joylessly and tirelessly train until they can do it. Chances are that person could be a lot happier and effective focusing on something else, though.

All Hyrule Warriors this and Hyrule Warriors that is getting annoying.

@drewb0203 So why did you bring it up? Almost no one here is really talking about it. (One comment about the game itself that I saw.)

@Yorumi
I see your resistance to the word talent and I understand it. People do have traits that make them better at other things than others, though. The problem is in what people do with that knowledge.

You had teachers that not only failed to recognize your abilities and desires but actively discouraged you from persuing them. That's irresponsible and frankly they failed at their job. That's the real issue in my view.

I had something similar growing up. I had a series of art teachers that just ignored me despite having a lot of promise. I really didn't realize it was happening until I had a couple teachers in high school who started to see what I could do and it was so refreshing and encouraging.

As a programmer though, I'm betting you are creative and you certainly can tinker at something until you get it just right. You are also able to study something for minute details that are out of place and work at a single problem for hours. These are all skills (talents?) that are useful to an artist.

I'm glad you are persuing it and enjoying it now. It's never too late to start!

I also program --teach it for a living even-- and illustrate and I just started learning guitar. My problem is that I've persued so many things that I want to just focus on mastering something. (animation, game design, music composition, screenwriting, storyboarding and layout, too.)

Anyway, I think you are right that praising someone for talents they have is the wrong focus and tends to make people feel like they can't do something similar. Praise people's hard work and diligence, instead.

Call me spoiled by the internet but all I see when I see non digitally drawn/finished art now is imperfection.

Definitely looks cool, but I'm not interested in following their gallery because it seems like they mainly upload art with scenes copied straight from references.

@PvtOttobot Good, good... let the hate flow through you.

@DarkKirby I don't think the imperfections in this artwork have anything to do with the medium, myself.

@Sapphire
The Mona Lisa is not a copy. Using a live reference doesn't make the artwork a copy. A copy is when an already completed piece is used as reference. Is is loads easier than drawing/painting from life: the work of making it 2 dimensional is done and it's much easier I copy from.

I am a selling artist, mostly of potraits. This girl's work is good. I do question the originality.

@yorumi

I work in coloured pencil. The graininess is a choice of the artist, the paper used etc. I sometimes work on slate and they go on like butter. She relies on stock colours a bit too much, imo. Coloured pencils are translucent. I have at times used 30 layers of colour to get just the right shade.

Im 15 I got 2 years to find something im good at now, ahh.

I SO Envy this person...

@midnafanboy I still don't think this warrants an article. That's what I'm getting at.

@PvtOttobot woah,you know how to use a smudge stick! p.s not trying to be a troll

@Nintendo6400 The fused shadows on your midna is really good. Good job man.

@ZDiggityDawg123 The amount... of smudging... I had to do... xD

kinda have to agree with the few that said about copying straight from the reference pic... if you have that skill(also dont like the word talent btw) then you should be able to draw the character in your own pose and apply the same skill of coloring to it as well as a background

saying that i think there are others in deviantart that have that originality that would be nice to give them a mention too...

@PvtOttobot i like that pic/drawing you posted it does look amazing only prob i have is that top right hand corner seems something is missing or needs some dark grey in there

Very impressive!

They have nice skills with colored pencils but they're honestly doing themselves a disfavor if they only copy official artworks instead of trying to come up with something from their imagination.