Artist's commentary
I've wanted to paint a Zelda piece for years but I had to wait until I had an idea truly worth doing.
If you can believe it I went into this piece thinking it would be a quick one. Cut to 170 hours of work later...
Source: https://x.com/arvalis/status/1798842335616438299
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.
Source: https://x.com/arvalis/status/1798842581046206654
I have work time data going back to 2017 and I have literally never pushed as hard in one month as I did for this. So if you'd like to support my insane endeavors you can grab a print here (will ship next week) https://rjpalmerstore.com/collections/prints/products/link-loadout