RJ Palmer: I've wanted to paint a Zelda piece for years but I had to wait until I had an idea truly worth doing. (arttag)

I've wanted to paint a Zelda piece for years but I had to wait until I had an idea truly worth doing. (arttag)

If you can believe it I went into this piece thinking it would be a quick one. Cut to 170 hours of work later...

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.

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) rjpalmerstore.com/collections/...

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This piece is fucking incredible.

You are just completely insane. This is fantastic. Although you could've moved his hand 1/8th of an inch.

lmao

I would agree that this is a delightfully rendered, visually stunning public admission of a complete lack of sanity.

"I want to paint Link with all his gear laid out." "Ooh, nifty! Which game are you basing it on?" "Yes."

Jesus christ I didn’t look in the mirror shield until now

I love your dedication to your decission and honestly, I would have done the same. How about the choice of items? A bunch of top favs? x3

You're about as Masochistic as ever buddy. Wow~!

There's a lot to love about your take on Link, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE his gauntlets.

The ones on the ground or the ones he's wearing?

Yes! (But I was referring to the ones he's wearing.)

This piece makes me want to try to get into zelda so I can appreciate it fully

170 HOURS! You madman!

This is awesome! As a kid I used to love letting the title screen of the first game scroll through all the items that you'd eventually get in game.

The patience you have! If a drawing/painting isn't finished in 5 hours max, I'm tossing it in the corner and completely forget it

This is rad

This is fucking beautiful, omg

This rules, it's like one of those pictures of a fighter plane parked on the tarmac with all of its weapons arrayed around it. Like this -

Yeah that was exactly the idea! I love that composition trope

Oh, same. I did a version of one showing all the gear I was carrying on my motorcycle for a cross-country ride. Shot it on a weird dead-end street next to a park in a subdivision in Spokane, WA. I had to stand on a big concrete barrier to get the shot.

"Behold- my stuff."

rj holy fuck this is amazing!!

Sometimes I think you and your attention to details is the artist-equivalents of the "that escalated quickly" meme. :D also known as: holy hell, the details! 80

hoarder...

I'm sorry, but that's clearly not a Zelda piece. Because it's a Masterpiece.

Wow... there really are SO many items in this series! And this isn't even all of them! I LOVE this!

Omg wow!

This rules man

"You're over encumbered"

I love this so much!! I think my favorite detail might be the Triforce-shaped buckle holding Link's spaulder on. Excellent work!!

Your work is always stunning

I'm always so damn amazed at how much work you put into your pieces let alone how much time you spend! Excellent stuff as always 🙌

It's dope!

Yes it’s 😇

hooooly heck, that's amazing °0° no suprise it took 170h, with all of this detailed and amazingly renered equipment layed out.

This is like when someone posts a picture of a bunch of guns and money just sitting on their bed.

Damn this is absolutely stunning

RJ this absolutely fucks

I'll admit I usually scroll and enjoy in quick lazy bites, but this I had to stare at for a solid couple minutes taking in the details.

extremely high praise!

Gotdang RJ GOTDANG RJ

This is fantastic.

dude wtf THIS IS INSANE!!! AUGH

Heck yeah RJ! :D Damn, it was really worth waiting! It's crazy considering those ain't even all of his items he collected so far.

Holy shit. This is magnificent.

Awesome

look at all my shiiiiit!

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