I did that initial rough thumbnail at 3am right after beating the game so its particularly sloppy. At first I tried it in a landscape format but it just wasn't working. Bonus red sketch is from when Koraidon was first announced and the limbs are just warmup doodles.
To add onto this: the horizon line will pass through all figures of the same height at the same place. So you can correctly scale figures back in space like this. Also really helps with keeping distant doors, stairs, and monsters in the right scale.
The main reason it took so long outside the obvious is that originally I was planning to just do the canon designs for the items but after doing my Link redesign I foolishly decided to redesign every single item. Not counting Link himself there are 87 items in there.
This, but about art
My beautiful baby boys, I will finish you someday
It takes a really long time to get good at drawing ?
Another one, because why not? Sketch and final
The sketch✏️ The painting ? This one was started in 2012 and finished in 2020. Certainly my longest time between starting and finishing a piece ?
Stretch goals tease
As it turns out I'm pretty bad at drawing some pokemon from memory. My gf is much better at it I think. Please don't ever ask me to draw "clefairy" ?
Here's a cool tip for how I did this