Zelda Collage

I've found that the people that give the more harsh criticism are the people with the worst level of art or the least amount of understand. The highest praise I get for my work are from artists who can rip me to shreds with their talent level. They know that they are light years ahead of me, but hey were once were I am and want to encourage me the same way someone else encouraged them to get to where they are.

Any criticisms I have gotten from people who have terrible art have never been specific on how to FIX whatever problem there might be, just what THEY don't like and what THEY think it should look like. Well who cares? That doesn't help us grow as an artist. As the old saying goes, if you are not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Any critiques I have gotten from the masters have always been constructive with step-by-step instructions on how they do what they do and how I can fix what I'm doing wrong. I'm about uplifting fellow artist's. We all make mistakes and the worst thing an artist can do at any time is say "I've got it." Once you do that it's all over. Not only can you plateau but in some cases you might even regress.

I'm going to break the tradition here. This is far beyond anything I am capable of doing but I'm gonna give you are honest and glowing critique.

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!

I love the painted-color style. I personally have not seen a collage done with the Zelda series in this medium. I think it works very well.

I like the fact that the dark elements of the Zelda franchise such as Twilight Princess and Majora's Mask seem to be colored darker where-as more light-hearted iterations of the series such as Ocarina Of Time, Skyward Sword, and Wind Waker are color with brighter colors. I don't know that that happened subconsciously or by design but it works very well.

I like the fact that Ganondorf is in the back looking away. Too often when a collage is done the main villain while in the background is looking straight on and it kind of sucks attention away from everyone else in the picture. I will say that everyone in this picture looks unhappy expect for Wind Waker Link.

Midna is hard to draw. I know personally. So I think you did a good job. Here head piece looks different in every picture I see of her drawn. It's got so many things going on with it that it is hard to remember every pattern and piece that goes with it. So it was smart to do a side profile of her to eliminate some of that bother. Quite frankly I think she is one of the most intriguing characters Nintendo has come out with and more needs to be done with her.

Zelda look kinda bored?......and a little evil. I guess if it is the Zelda based on TP then she should look that way because she was possessed.

I also think it was smart to use the Tri-Force as the light-point reference in the picture.

The is definitely a composition that has serious overtones to it. Someone might say that because only Toon Link seem to be smiling that he kid of throws off the ambiance of the piece, but as an artist you have creative license to draw it however you like. If someone else doesn't like it, too bad. Let them draw their own picture. All the core elements are intact. Light and shadow, color theory, foreshortening, perspective, anatomy, and character placement. The only thing I would change would be to have at least another character smiling or everyone in the picture with mean-mugs on. Then again that would be MY choice. This is YOUR work. You can have it however you want.

I think this is a great composition and I cannot wait to see more.