Drewly: Pearl of the Sirens

 Pearl of the Sirens

Pearl of the Sirens: Fashioned by a sea seductress who didn’t want to immediately drown and devour their victims. This necklace allows drylanders to survive beneath the water for as long as the seductress wishes.

We have been going strong with drewly for three entire weeks!

For a random one-off item drawing for my homebrew Pathfinder game, I am very happy with how this turned out.

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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-Ceph

Drewly: Hanafuda Earrings

 Hanafuda Earrings

Hanafuda Earrings: Do you like the sun? Do you like breathing? Have you heard of Sun Breathing?

Drewly today is brought to you by being stuck in a rut and watching anime. Drawing these earrings did help me get out of that rut.

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: Sea Witch’s Charm

 Sea Witch’s Charm

Mysterious Shell: These shells can be found all over Hyrule in every sort of place Link can find items. Link can exchange mysterious shells to purchase various figurines depicting characters, monsters, and bosses from Link’s adventures in The Minish Cap.

Rumors speak of a witch who lives beneath the sea who can grant any wish, for a price. Petitioners of her great power should beware, as the cost of her gifts is always something dear, and the wish always comes with some sort of vicious technicality where the witch can win their very soul. It is said she keeps the souls of her poor, unfortunate victims in the golden shell she wears about her neck, its ever-growing contents empowering and emboldening the witch.

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I haven’t drawn an item card for each figurine Link can find in the Minish Cap. If I ever reach the point where I have finished drawing all the items in every Zelda game, I may come back and draw the figurines. With the amount of items in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, as well as the number of echoes in Echoes of Wisdom, I don’t think I will reach that point any time soon.

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-Ceph

The Minish Cap: The chief’s hook talisman

 The chief’s hook talisman

Magical Boomerang: This magically enhanced boomerang strikes harder, travels farther, and can change direction mid-flight. Link must fuse kinstones with the Tingle Siblings to reveal the hidden location of the boomerang. 

The stories tell us that long ago the people lived on only one island because there were no other islands in the open ocean. A clever chief decided to fool their siblings into making new islands by exclaiming they had hooked the greatest fish when they had purposely hooked the ocean floor. Paddling hard, the siblings pulled up the ocean floor into island after island for the people to discover and inhabit.

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Manaiakalani is Maui’s hook in Polynesian traditions. After the existence of Moana, it is much more difficult to find sources discussing folkloric traditions instead of Disney films. 

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Four Swords Adventures: A matched pair of bracelets

 A matched pair of bracelets

Power Bracelet: These bracelets allow the Link wearing it to lift up extremely heavy objects. These bracelets are not pedestal items, so they act as a temporary upgrade for the Link that picks it up and lasts the entire level where they are found. The bracelets can be found in chests or given to a Link in exchange for their help solving some problem.

These matched sets of bracelets transfer strength and vigor from one person to another. Originally envisioned as a way for partners to share strength in an emergency, the bracelets are now most often used to steal energy from unwilling victims. It may not sound like much to have the strength of two people, but that is twice as strong as most people.

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I think these bracelets turned out better than the first set I did for the blue bracelet. The black gem on gold is an unnatural contrast, but the black-and-white version of the item looks nice.

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-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: Hauntingly beautiful earring

 Hauntingly beautiful earring

Moon Pearl: These large pearls allow Links to open the many Moon Gates that connect Hyrule to the Dark World. The dark world is a close reflection of the Light World but has key differences that can allow Link to overcome impossible challenges in the Light World alone. Each moon pearl can only open one moon gate, shattering after use. Link can earn moon pearls by completing puzzles or be given them by people they meet during their adventures.

These classic pearl earrings were intended as an anniversary gift but were sadly never delivered. Just days before the occasion the couple perished in a tragic fire. The two spirits now haunt the charred earrings, bitter about the lost opportunity at a happy life but enjoying a grim undeath. 

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Simple things are often some of the hardest things to draw in a compelling way. I do think grounded simple objects play a far more important role in making loot interesting than just throwing more wacky enchantments on a sword.

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-Ceph

Drewly: A brooch from the forests of Lorien.

 A brooch from the forests of Lorien.

Leaf Brooch: These brooches held closed elven cloaks interwoven with magic to shield the wearer from unfriendly eyes. While the brooches themselves were not inherently powerful, they were treasured possessions to each who received one as a gift from the Lady of the Forest.

That was Drewly. We did it. A whole month dedicated to work we already completed. I took this month as a victory lap to be amazed at myself for the scale of work that I can get done. Not all of the art is amazing, but it is amazing to get any work done at all, let alone 31 pieces of art that have just been sitting waiting to see the light of day.

I am going to take a break and be back next Sunday with more items from Four Swords Adventures. 

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-Ceph

Drewly: Wolf School Medallion

 Wolf School Medallion

Wolf School Medallion: Like the medallion from the VIper school, this silver medallion is enchanted to react to nearby magic and the traces such magic leaves behind.

Draewly 17th brings us my take on the medallion from the Netflix Witcher series. 

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

Four Swords Adventures: Pendant of balance

 Pendant of balance

Force Gems: The Link’s must gather force gems during their adventures to restore the true power of the Four Sword that has been diminished by Vaati’s dark magic. Force Gems are found throughout the Links’ exploration and are usually rewarded for impressive feats of skill and speed. Two thousand force gems must be gathered during each level to pierce the veil of darkness at the end of each level.

This heavy jade pendant is given to initiates who seek the way of balance. After communing with the amulet, the prevailing energy of a person shines from the pendant. Only through long rigorous effort can a person manifest and eventually true balance in their energy.

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That’s two weeks of Drewly 2024 down and about two more to go. I hope you are celebrating all the work you’ve already completed.

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

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Viper School Medallion

 Viper School Medallion

Viper Medallion: This silver effigy of a snake writhing about itself has been enchanted to vibrate in the presence of magic.

Drewly day 6 is the end of our first of three weeks of Witcher items. Tomorrow is an item card from the Four Swords Adventures set.

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

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: A shielding charm.

 Four Swords Adventures:  A shielding charm.

Blue Bracelet: This bracelet offers brief magical protection to any Link that can find it. Having the bracelet halves the damage that Link takes in the stage the bracelet was found in. Like all power-up items in Four Swords Adventures, the protection offered by the bracelet only lasts for a single stage. 

This shielding charm’s enchantment is entirely contained in its polished piece of fossilized shell. While the nature of the fossil resonates with the abjuration magic of the spell, there is a limit to what the spell can intercept. If the blue glow dims, the protective shield has been spent, leaving the wearer vulnerable to attack.

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Welcome to the items from The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. There aren’t many items, but I did end up drawing quite a few cards as the theme for the set was dual/duel which meant most cards had a second version or at least a partial color swap.

Check back in every Sunday for more item cards to tickle your imagination and spice up your inventory.

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Amphora: Five items from my home game.

Five items from my home game.

Rod of Bouncing: Channeling your spell through this focus allows a spell that would otherwise strike a single target to ricochet between multiple targets.

Helm of Telepathy: This strange metal helmet amplifies its wearer's mental abilities and allows them to communicate psychically with nearby intelligent life. It also protects the wearer from unwelcome psychic intrusions.

Mighty Amulet of Icy Fists: This stone amulet is far heavier than it looks and is always cold. Communing with the amulet allows the wearer to wreath their hands and feet in bitter cold and strike with the strength of an ice giant.

Arctic Bow: This bow belonged to a ranger of the Ice Wastes. The supernatural cold of that wasteland permeated the bow, imparting arrows it fires with the draining chill of its frigid homeland.

Vambraces of the Effreti: These metal bracers were once used to bind an efreet in service. They were given as a gift to the person who freed the proud genie and were imbued with a mote of the efreet’s supernatural command of flame.

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Here are five items I drew specifically for my home game. Since they weren’t drawn with a large audience in mind, they could be a bit silly or a bit obvious in their reference to other universes.

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Next week we will start looking at the items from The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Fallen hawk amulet

Fallen hawk amulet

Skull Necklace: The macabre bone amulets are carried by Moblins in the Great Sea. Link can steal them or loot them from slain enemies as long as he has a Spoils bag to carry them. Two different collectors of these trinkets offer treasure maps in exchange for Skull necklaces.

The skull of a hawk and ironwood beads, strung on braided horse hair make up this amulet. The hawk fell in defense of its friend and the wood came from the staff of the master who was overcome by the student. The former pupil now wears the charm to never forget those they sacrificed to find the path they now walk.

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The Gunslinger by Stephen King is a very good book. One of my favorite things about it is that it isn’t too big, like many of his books are, it is a quick intriguing read or listen and I’d recommend it to anyone who likes a good story.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Silver circlet of the moon butterfly.

 Silver circlet of the moon butterfly.

Joy Pendant: These necklaces can be found searching in treasure chests and stealing from the pockets of Bokoblins. Link can bring these bright pieces of jewelry to Mrs.Marie, a school teacher on Windfall Island, in exchange for a deed to a private island, a magical charm, and a treasure map. How a school teacher has such fabulous wealth is unclear.

The ceremonial crown of the Shadowed Princess, heir apparent to the Twilight Throne. Due to a schism within the royal family over who should be next in line, no one has worn this crown in an age. What would be able to heal the broken family or who could take advantage of the open spot in the line of succession?

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This is one of those drawings that I look at and say, “Who would wear this?” and “When would they wear this?” Sometimes I don’t know a good answer, sometimes the answers drive the design of the item, and sometimes I say that it's magic so however unwieldy, someone would wear it for the buffs.

Also, based on what current runway fashion is, anyone could wear anything if the right person told them to.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph