The Minish Cap: Happy Birthday to you

 Happy Birthday to you

Red Kinstone: Kinstones are found broken and fusing matched pairs of kinstones with the people Link meets on his journey unlocks boons, treasure, and new places to explore. Fusing red kinstones often changes something about the world. A person is inspired, a pathway opens, or a treasure appears somewhere else.

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you

Haaaappy birthday to *insert name of loved one here*

Happy birthday to you

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My Kinstone drawings are mostly things to make wishes as wishing is such a core part of fairy tales. 

My older kid loves these drawings more than almost any other that I have made because they can play blowing birthday candles out and then they magically relight. Their love for these makes these drawings some of my favorites from this set.

If you can do anything creative. Share it with your kids early, they will be impressed and tell everyone about your amazing skills.

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The Minish Cap: Haunted Candelabra

 Haunted Candelabra

Fire Element: Atop Mount Crenel, deep in the Cave of Flames, the Fire Element is guarded by a turtle dragon that Link must defeat. After defeating the beast, Link can take the Earth and Fire elements to the Elemental Sanctuary and begin the reforging of the Picori blade. With two elements, the newly dubbed white sword has the power to split Link into two copies.

This candelabra was recovered from a supposedly haunted manor. According to local gossip, the lord of the manor was cursed, and so were all of his unfortunate servants. The candelabra is certainly a curio, as its candles never burn lower, and it has a habit of tipping towards beautiful women.

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Lumier is a surprisingly lecherous character for a kids' movie. I guess that is probably a problematic stereotype of the French manifesting in children's media.

If you are worried about Lumier being lonely, Cogsworth is going to eventually show up in this set, so he will just have to be patient.

Drewly today is my normal weekly item card post, where I post drawings inspired by all the items in all the Zelda games. I am currently posting the items from The Minish Cap. I’ve got complete sets for the first 11 Zelda games and a bunch of other item sets already posted here.

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

What is Drewly?

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:

Share art you have already made.

Share as often as you want.

When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

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I'm not an artist: Six items from Ocarina of Time I drew.

Six items from Ocarina of Time I drew. 

Fish: The two types of fish that Link can catch in Ocarina of time.

I'm not an artist: Powerful forces and an irredeemable object

Five items from A Link to the Past.

Magic Hammer: The last hammer I drew was for blacksmithing. This hammer is a wooden mallet suitable for wood working or head bonking. I know that a knot in the center of a mallet head would probably lead to a broken mallet, but I love the way knots look. 

This could be the mallet used by the hermit monk who built the Temple of the Five Bells. The monk, with their trusted donkey, hiked into the trackless peaks of the Mountains of Heavenly Silence with a vision of founding an isolated temple. The monk and donkey were not seen for nearly a decade. The next time the monk was seen, they were erecting a sign post that directed travelers to the new temple. It is said, that when the first traveling monks arrived at the Temple of the Five Bells, the hermit carpenter welcomed them and then sat down with an elderly donkey and the pair died at the same moment, having seen their life’s' work completed. 

The heartwood of an ancient tree is a powerful material component. That is especially true when the tree is a treant elder that has been bonded with the hamadryad matron of the western wilderness millennia. During a brief moment of privacy, the elder treant pulled this mallet from their own heart and gave it to a group of outsiders while saying, "Swing this at the right moment so that the forests will be there for our children's children." This act of creation claimed the elder's life. The first forest spirits to discover the outsiders with the elder's lifeless body assumed the outsiders slew the treant. In their grief they were unwilling to hear the outsiders’ story. The outsiders managed to escape with the mallet and are now hunted by avenging forest spirits and colonial agents eager to see the untamed forest fall to axe and saw. 

I'm not an artist: The last five from The Adventure of Link

Here are the last five items from The Adventure of Link.

Candle: The candle is used to star fires and burn away barriers to secret areas. This is a handheld candle based flame thrower. It needs an accelerant and candles or another flame to function. I would rule that each candle would only have 1 - 3 uses before being burnt down to a nub and there would be no more than six shots of flame in the jar. The heat shield around the flame also functions as a focusing mirror that directs most of the candles light forward similar to the bullseye lantern.

I am not an artist: Penultimate items from the Legend of Zelda

The second to last set of items from The Legend of Zelda.

Food: An unrealistic hunk of meat on an anonymous bone. It is easy to use this as a distraction or monster bait in the same way it is used in the game.  It could also be a snack of healing after taking too many hits, one of the many food items in ICRPG, or a novelty weapon perfect for a flesh eating monster.