Drewly: Shepherd’s Journal

 Shepherd’s Journal

Shepherd’s Journal: A detailed account of a nomadic shepherd’s journey to the lost city of Atlantis. The shepherd’s account could be used to retrace their steps and once again find the lost city.

I really love Atlantis: The Lost Empire. I really love Mike Mignola. I really loved finding out that Mike Mignola did the major concept push for the movie and that the animators were told to study and adapt his style as best they could. Look for Mignola’s tell-tale hands; Atlantis has Mignola hands.

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

Wind Waker: A scroll of occult magic.

 A scroll of occult magic.

Ghost Ship Chart: This unique special chart allows Link to track the location of the ghost ship that sails the Great Sea. It will also allow him to board the Ghost Ship to earn a priceless treasure. Link can only find the chart at the end of a maze filled with floormasters eager to pull Link back to the beginning of the maze.

A scroll of occult magic from an ancient library. Occult mages uncover forgotten or forbidden truths and contact ancient uncaring beings to discover means of controlling the natural flow of magic. To pursue occult power is to trust your research to keep you from the darkest truths or trust your willpower to stay sane facing the naked truths not meant for mortal kind.

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This is the last of the five scrolls of magic. Each represents a different source that mages may draw their power from.

A little more than a week left of Drewly.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A scroll of primal magic.

A scroll of primal magic.

Tingle's Chart: There are exceptional charts among the special charts. Two of these charts are given to you directly from Tingle to celebrate your heroism. The first shows the exact location of Tingle Island and the second shows the locations of all eight Triforce charts. 

A scroll of primal magic painted onto an animal hide. Primal magic demands that the user attunes themself to the rhythms of nature to call forth its innate power to work magic. Often primal mages spend long spans meditating in the wilderness to connect to the primal source, but others contain an animal magnetism that naturally resonates with the font, and in rare cases, exhaustive observations have allowed the exceptionally clever to tap the primal power.

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I’m not sure this is a great drawing, but I really like the concept of a scroll of magic being inked into an animal hide. Seems more thematically appropriate than a druid carrying a bunch of parchment in scroll tubes.

More wands next week as Drewly 2023 continues.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A scroll of technomancy.

A scroll of technomancy.

Special Chart: These charts show the locations of people, places, monsters, and things of note in the Great Sea. Like most charts in Wind Waker, Link can earn, buy, win, or find them in all sorts of places during his adventures.

A scroll of techno-magic from the burgeoning field of magi-tech. Techno-magic seeks to use the raw processing power of computers to democratize magic to anyone with access to a computer. At least that is the goal, right now only the most powerful supercomputers can begin to control the flow of magic to cast spells.

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Magi-tech, hex tech, arcano-tech, almost sufficiently advanced technology, whatever you want to call it, I’m not the first person to say that technology might be used to do magical things.

Drewly is in full swing which is why you’ve gotten so many item cards from me this month. There’s more to come so check back in daily. 

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A scroll of arcane magic

 Wind Waker: A scroll of arcane magic.

Treasure Chart: Scattered through the Great Sea are these treasure maps that Link can find, earn, win, buy, or just be given during his adventures. Each chart highlights a specific treasure somewhere in the Great Sea with a pillar of light that disappears when Link finds the treasure.

An arcane scroll of magic written in a magical cipher. Arcane schools of magic rely on exhausting hours of study and memorization to learn the words and rituals that harness magical energies to the caster’s will. Only those with great intellectual skills or aweinspiring natural talents can hope to excel pursuing arcane mastery of magic.

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This is the start of a new minisereis in the Wind Waker set. I used the five chart/scroll items to draw a set of scrolls from five different schools of magic.

Also coming soon is my annual July art challenge Drewly. I try to post something that I have already drawn every day of July. Watch out for a lot more posts not relating to the Zelda Item Cards project daily during July.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: The true and correct atlas of the world.

The true and correct atlas of the world. 

Dungeon Map: As with most games in the Zelda franchise, a dungeon map appears in each dungeon and shows Link where rooms are, how they generally connect to each other, and which rooms Link has visited. Each dungeon hides the dungeon map in a different location, but it is generally one of the first items Link finds in the dungeon’s treasure chests.

The last great atlas of the world was compiled by Vash the Cartographer more than two hundred years ago. The volume was so famously expensive to produce that no one has been willing to finance the production of a revised edition. What would be discovered if a new set of maps were to be made?

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I feel like my books are getting better and more interesting.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Not an artist: Five items from Oracle of Seasons used to find a hidden treasure.

Five items from Oracle of Seasons used to find a hidden treasure.

Dragon Key: Amid the rocky peaks and bottomless pits of Goron Mountain there is a small patch of ground reachable only with the help of a flying companion. Riding atop the flying panda Moosh, Link can reach this hard-to-reach location and earn the Dragon Key as a reward for his perseverance. The key is required to stop the flow of the waterfall that covers the entrance to the Dancing Dragon Dungeon.

According to legend, a great dragon so disliked their heirs that instead of passing down some of their great wealth to their newly independent children, the dragon hid their hoard at the end of an impossibly complex trail of secrets and clues. To even find the start of the trail, one must have a dowsing rod made from silver that once was part of the dragon’s vast hoard. Many claim to have knowledge on the whereabouts of such rods, but few offers are credible, and even less are safe.

I'm not an artist: Six items from Oracle of Ages found by archaeologists investigating the lost terran civilization.

Six items from Oracle of Ages found by archaeologists investigating the lost Terran civilization.

Library Key: Link is given the library key by King Zora during the current era after he cures King Zora’s illness with a magical potion in the past era. King Zora is healthy again, but there is a corruption in the seas pushing Lord Jabu-Jabu to the brink of death. Knowing that Link is the sort of person that can get things done, King Zora asks him to go to the Eyeglass Island Library and research if there is any way to cleanse the oceans and save Lord Jabu-Jabu.

This is the last key item I drew as an item that would get you access to a place. I think this one is pretty obvious as library cards are the “key” to services at the library. If you don’t have a library card, go get one. Libraries are wonderful resources. Many offer services that include more than just checking out books and if you don’t know what your library has to offer you are probably missing out.

It is generally understood by xenoarchaeologists studying the ruins of Terra that humans valued knowledge highly, but maintained tight control over who had the privilege to study and learn. Massive collections of written records were kept in even the smallest settlements across many regions of Terra. Even with the ubiquity of these archives, only those who carried the token of privilege were allowed into these prestigious buildings containing the collected knowledge of humanity.

I'm not an artist: Five Link's Awakening items found in an Academy for Witches.

Five items from Link’s Awakening you can find at the Sibylline Academy for Witches.

Broom: Link is given the broom in thanks for delivering a letter to a lonely man in a long distance relationship. The relationship is actually a sham. Mr. Write is actually being catfished as the photo included in the letter is not representative of the letter’s author. 

Any witch worth their salt rides a broom. In her youth, Josephine Sibyl was bullied mercilessly for being too poor to buy a broom. Instead she had to borrow a worn broom from the school and return it at the end of every semester. Josephine Sibyl eventually rose to fame as a wildly talented witch and champion of the common people. Her adventures earned her much renown and even more gold. When Josephine founded the Sibylline Academy for Witches, she left it an enormous endowment to ensure that any student in need have the equipment essential for an arcane education provided at no cost. The endowment has grown over the many years due to Sibylline graduates happily donating to the endowment that gave them the tools to succeed when they were in need. 

I'm not an artist: Travel essentials from A Link to the Past

Here are five items any wanderer would need from A Link to the Past.

Ether Medallion: A golden medal that gives its owner the ability to call down lightning strikes and control the weather by raising their blade to the heavens. Those that survive being struck by the lightning are paralyzed by the overwhelming power of the medallion. 

Gold is as good as gold. The traveler's saying means all types of money and currency have value somewhere. When a traveler comes upon a cache of coins minted in Stormhold, they should take as many as they can carry because there will always be another money changer that can exchange those Stormhold bolts into Termina rupees or Imperial credits. 

Shamans, druids, and animages the world over visit the storm-callers of Mt. Abarat with the hopes of training under the masters of storm magics. Deep inside the Imojen mountain range, many would be pupils abandon their quest when the difficulty of traversing the mountains is too great. To receive their titular powers, Imojen Storm-Callers must climb to the peak of Mt. Abarat during the height of the rainy season. Those that reach the summit find an ancient stone tablet inscribed with ancient hieroglyphics. If the prospective storm-caller is able to decipher the message, they will discover they have always known the storms' true names. With this knowledge unlocked, the climber can truly assume the mantle of a storm-caller. 

I'm not an artist: Five(ish) more items from The Legend of Zelda

Here are six more drawings inspired by items appearing in the 1984 The Legend of Zelda. I included six because the two hourglasses are effectively palette swapped.

 

Clock: These two hourglasses could be twin magical items that each bestow one important power over the flow of time.