The Minish Cap: Flying Carpet

 Flying Carpet

Wind Element: The fourth and final elemental essence Link recovers in the Minish Cap. The wind element is found in the Palace of the Winds, which is literally in the clouds. Returning to the elemental sanctuary, Link can infuse the fourth element into the white sword and create the Four Sword of Legend. This unlocks the blade’s full potential, allowing Link to split into four copies and containing the power to seal great evil.

This carpet was woven as a gift for a proud sorcerer, but was spurnned as too mundane. The carpet languished in the sorcerer’s dungeons until a peasant, intended to be a sacrifice to a greater genie, wished for freedom to a lesser genie also imprisoned by the sorcerer. The lesser genie used the wish to grant the carpet intelligence and flight so it could spirit the peasant and genie far away from the dungeons of the vile sorcerer.

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In the original tellings of the story of Aladdin, Aladdin lives in ancient China and meets two different genies. There is the weaker genie of the ring and the greater genie of the lamp.

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Drewly: Llama Potion

 Llama Potion

Llama Potion: The poison, the poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen specially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco’s poison. Turns out its actually llama extract.

Sometimes I just put on a movie and draw some props from that movie. That is how we have Emperor’s New Groove fan art for drewly today.

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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The Minish Cap: Frog Legs

 Frog Legs

Flippers: The flippers allow Link to swim in the many waterways of Hyrule. He can find them beneath the Royal Hyrule Library, but only after he finds and returns all the library’s missing books.

A hedge witch charm for safe traveling through swamps, bogs, and marshes starts with catching the third frog heard on the third day of the third week after a new moon. In the light of the waxing moon, anoint the frog with blood taken from your ankle, your knee, and your hip, and then eat all of the frog but its legs. Hang the legs from a braid of your hair, and you should have no trouble when passing through even the most fearsome swamps.

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I feel like the secret to a good witch’s charm is making it both prohibitively complex while also being gross.

Drewly today is my take on the flippers from The Minish Cap. I have drawn flippers before, so I went a bit more abstract with the concept of swimming tools. I am currently posting the drawings based on 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. https://thespeakingsquid.blogspot.com/search/label/Collected

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.

-Ceph

The Minish Cap: Pipe of the Irresistible Melody

 Pipe of the Irresistible Melody

Ocarina of Wind: Link must climb to the top of the Fortress of Winds and defeat the golem guardian to earn the ocarina. When Link plays the instrument, a bird is summoned that can quickly carry him across the land to safe landing places Link has previously discovered.

We had a rat problem in this town, worse than any you could imagine. After years of suffering, a piper came and claimed they could rid the town of all the rats in a single night, but it would cost every coin from every person in town. When the time came to pay, the tight-pursed lord refused to pay, and now all the children are missing. Can you please help us?

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The Pied Piper came to Hamelin and offered to catch all their rats by luring them into the river to drown, but when the city didn’t pay, he lured all the city’s children into the river.

Dark fairy tales aside, I was in American public schools in the 90’s and 00’s so I have nostalgic memories of learning three blind mice on the recorder.

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The Minish Cap: Gilded Geese

 Gilded Geese

Pegasus Boots: Link receives the pegasus boots from a cobbler whose work is mostly done by diminutive helpers while he sleeps. These boots allow Link to run at incredible speeds, knock into things with incredible force, and eventually make charging sword attacks after learning the incredible technique.

A rare genetic mutation similar to albinism or melanism is aurism. Affected birds have lustrous gold colored feathers and lay similarly golden colored eggs. These rare specimens are eagerly sought after by collectors for their novelty and by con artists for their ability to fool the masses.

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A cobbler being helped by sprites while they sleep is a classic fairy tale reference.

I know these don't depict winged boots, but I wanted to find a way to draw the golden goose for this set. If you need some guidance on how these help in a similar way to the Pegasus Boots, the geese depicted here are giant racing geese that the party can ride like Chocobos.

If you need this goose to really by gold and lay gold eggs, we have you covered with some golden eggs coming up later in the set.

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Four Swords Adventures: A tri-color carrot medley

 A tri-color carrot medley

Carrot: Picking up a carrot causes the horse Link is riding to gallop faster. What happens when you pick up a carrot when you aren’t riding a horse? A horse is of course instantly summoned to you. As carrots are horse specific items in Four Swords Adventures, they only appear in levels and mini-games designed around horses being involved.

Let’s be honest, did you know that carrots came in all sorts of colors? Did you know that a turnip and a carrot can be the same color? Did you know that a purple carrot is even an option? Probably not because of the gastronomical mono-culture enforced by big-vegetable.

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That ranty blurb is brought to you by watching too many Brendan Lee Mulligan videos.

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Four Swords Adventures: Staff of the dragon herald

 Staff of the dragon herald

Force Fairy: These fairies revive fallen Links that drop below zero hearts as long as the team has any remaining fairies. During their adventures, Link earns force fairies for gathering large sums of force gems. These fairies are rewarded when Link’s stats are calculated at the end of each stage. There are bonus force fairies hidden throughout certain stages and areas, allowing Link to earn extra lives through exploration.

Draconic staves are given to heralds of great wyrms. The more ornate and detailed, the higher age and station the dragon sovereign claims to possess. While it is not unheard of for dragons to willfully misrepresent their station in negotiations, dragons who have been caught overinflating their age or holdings are viciously mocked and harshly ostracized by their peers.

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Today’s drewly post is also just a regularly scheduled Sunday item drop. This serpent staff is my take on the Tevinter’s stave from Dragon Age: Inquisition. I also remixed it with a caduceus if you need a messenger or doctor staff.

Witcher items continue tomorrow with more Drewly.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Witcher greater mutagen

 Witcher greater mutagen

Mutagen: A viable cellular sample taken from a monster that Witchers can implant into their bodies to improve and refine their already considerable mutations.

Drewly day 4 is not my favorite drawing, but I will post it all the same. 

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Digivolve your champion with this digivice.

 Digivolve your champion with this digivice.

Digivice: A digivice from the first series of the Digimon anime. Digivices allow DigiDestined children to digivole their Digimon. That sentence is all the explanation I need for why Digimon didn’t overtake pokémon in the fight for monster collecting supremacy.

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I think that is it for the monster collector item mini-set. There was a while there where I liked Digimon more than pokémon but pokémon was clearly the IP that endured. Did you have a favorite child collecting monsters show that wasn’t pokémon? Monster rancher? Card captors? An even more obscure one?

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Catch ‘em All with this Pokeball.

Catch ‘em All with this Pokeball.

Pokeball: Use Pokeballs like this to catch all of the Pokémon to complete your Pokédex. 

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Unless you want to directly reference pokémon in your games, I don’t see these being anything but a funny one-off easter egg item, but it could be a great way to represent a stone of summoning or some single-use summon a monster item. 

I haven’t played any of the Pokémon games after the last Game Boy Advanced games Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. They do have a special place in my heart as one of my first hyperfocuses, but I doubt I’m going back to Pokémon any time soon. I just don't have the time to catch them all or craft the perfect team, especially not with however many pokémon there are now. 

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Capture all of them with these Pal Spheres.

Capture all of them with these Pal Spheres. 

Palsphere: Use these brightly colored spheres to capture all the pals, and anything else they can grab too. Find an additional collection of Pal Spheres below.

Wind Waker: A carnivorous pitcher plant.

 A carnivorous pitcher plant.

Sea Flower: Link trades up from a mundane town flower to this sea flower with either the merchants of Bomb Island or Mother and Child Island. With the sea flower in his pouch, Link can trade it for an exotic Flower to the merchant of the Greatfiah Isle. Link can also place sea flowers on the joyous pedestals of Windfall Island.

Mundane pitcher plants use fragrant nectars to lure bugs inside the bell of the flower which is lined with slippery secretions that trap their prey in a pool of digestive acid at the bottom of the bell to be dissolved and absorbed by the plant. Giant pitcher plants are very similar except that are able to lure larger animals such as birds, rats, and monkeys. Maneater pitcher plants are massive plants that mimic human screams to lure others into their acid-filled bells while searching for wounded friends.

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If you were walking in the jungle and heard an unfamiliar scream, would you run and try to help?

Carnivorous plants fact: Venus fly traps, with all their exotic mystique, are only native to the Carolinas on the east coast of the United States. Not necessarily a place famed for its exotic mystique.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Aniplasm Fulguris

 Aniplasm Fulguris

Green Chu Jelly: Dropped by slain green chu chus, Link can only collect them when he has a spoils bag. Link can return batches of this jelly to Doc Bandam in exchange for a dose of green potion.

Electro Jellies give a strong shock to any who touch them without proper insulation or grounding. When trying to gather the protoplasm from electro jellies, one should ensure they are guarded against shocks. The jelly can be used to power devices as a naturally occurring battery or to add electric shock to tools and weapons.

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This looks more like a slime with bad punky hair rather than an electric jelly.

Summer is unofficially over as August comes to a close. School is starting again and life is always changing, but I will try to be ever-consistent in drawing and sharing my item cards. This has become a touchstone activity for me that really fills my cup and helps me feel taken care of. Thanks to all of you who check in on my work. I hope it brings you joy.

Here’s to a great fall!

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Aniplasm Glacialis

 Aniplasm Glacialis

Blue Chu Jelly: Dropped by slain blue chu chus, Link can only collect these once he has a spoils bag. Returning some to Doc Bandam on Windfall Island allows Link to resupply on blue potions during his adventures.

Arctic Jellies concentrate the already considerable cold of the Arctic and can direct it at perceived threats. One should approach such jellies with caution and prepare against extreme cold. The creature’s protoplasm can be used as a coolant in industrial uses or made into cooling balms for medicinal purposes.

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The clouds on this drawing make that chu chu look gargantuan.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Aniplasm Igneus

Aniplasm Igneus

Red Chu Jelly: Dropped by slain red chu chus, Link can collect this jelly in his spoils bag. The jelly is needed for Doc Bandam to distill red potions for Link during his travels.

Fire jellies arise during heat waves and droughts. Their ability to spontaneously combust means gatherers should ward themselves against flames before approaching. Fire Jelly protoplasm is a long-lasting fuel source for small flames and can be processed into an extremely effective accelerant for creating large blazes quickly.

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I think the fire on this fire chu chu could have been a bit more impressive, but such is life.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Aniplasm Vulgaris.

Aniplasm Vulgaris.

Bonus Chu Chu Jelly: This card doesn’t actually represent an item from Wind Waker. There are three types of chu chu jelly in the game, so I did a default neutral chu chu and then three reskins to represent different elemental chu chus. 

Jellies are simple creatures that are often seen grazing in small herds. Aggressive only in self-defense, jellies are content to consume decaying organic matter, minerals, rocks, and even plain dirt. The protoplasm making up jellies is extremely harmonic to elemental energies and as such should be handled with care to avoid catalyzing into an unstable compound.

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This is the little chu chu from Breath of the Wild. If memory serves, I was playing Breath of the Wild while I was drawing the Wind Waker items which is why I had those chu chus on my mind. I was also in grad school at the time which means my memory of the whole time is a bit fuzzy.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: An otherworldly egg.

 An otherworldly egg.

Boko Baba Seed: These seeds are dropped by slain Boko Baba, carnivorous plants with toothy mouth-like flowers. Link can gather these in his Spoils Bag and turn them into Hollo the potion maker in exchange for Blue Potion made from the seeds. 

Exploring a cave you come upon a cavern that appears to be hewn by a long-lost civilization. Deep in the cavern, there is a chamber filled with these organic pods. Could they be the last generation of the civilization that built the caves, or are they the latest clutch of eggs laid by the animals that have claimed the caverns as their home? Whatever they are, your mission demands that you take at least one back with you for further study.

 

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This is the egg sac from Alien. The face-hugger inside the sac looks much better in the colored version. Translucent materials are very difficult for me to do in line-art at my current skill level.

This is the last Wind Waker post for Drewly this year. I post item cards almost every Sunday so check in next week for more.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: An ampule of glowing essence.

 An ampule of glowing essence.

Forest Firefly: These majestic fireflies glow in seven different colors and can only be found in the Forest Haven. This isolated forest is the last vestige of the once mighty forests that covered Hyrule before being drowned under the floods that birthed the Great Sea. In the original release, Link must capture a firefly and give it to Lenzo so that he can upgrade Link’s Pictobox into the Deluxe Pictobox capable of taking color photographs. In the HD rerelease, Link is given the Deluxe Pictobox from the start, so Lenzo doesn’t need a firefly for his research.

Such an ampule of distilled firefly essence requires the lives of millions of fireflies to create. The result of such an insecticide massacre is a fluid that makes any who drink it glow for a few hours. It is also an invaluable reagent in spells conjuring or controlling lights.

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If you don’t know what an Ampule is, it is a type of container for medicines and reactive liquids. The ampule is sealed by melting the glass tip, which means the neck must be snapped off to open them.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph