Drewly: Oroborous Industries Shotgun

 Oroborous Industries Shotgun

Shotgun: Oroborous Industries is your premier source for firearms you can rely on. Sure, you could buy from Marrow Arms or even an unaffiliated gunsmith, but why risk your safety?

If you are saying to yourself, that symbol looks like something from Fullmetal Alchemist, you are right. I was drawing these two items while watching anime.

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: Outlaw’s Bow

 Outlaw’s Bow

Bow: Link earns this Minish bow by defeating a group of monsters hiding in a Minish-sized cave in the Castor Wilds. The bow changes sizes when Link does so; he can use it shrunk or normal-sized. Like most Legend of Zelda bows, Link can use it to attack enemies from afar, flip switches, and strike distant, often eye-shaped, targets.

This outlaw never intended to be a famous hero fighting for the people against a tyrannical plutocracy. For many years, they lived a simple life deep in the woods where the plutarch’s laws couldn’t reach. Eventually, regular folk fleeing the endless squeeze of the wealth-obsessed monarch brought word of the small folks’ plight to the hooded outlaw, and they could not sit and do nothing while the powerless suffered.

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I’m currently reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White, which tells the story of King Arthur. I did not at all expect Robin Hood to show up. There are no more spoilers than that, but I’m excited to see what other oddities will be woven into the familiar tale. 

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Amphora: Six items from my home game

 Six items from my home game

Greenbane Sling: This sling is imbued with a spell of seeking and bane toward plants. Its bullets fly unerringly towards powerful plants and its strike withers any plant material they touch.

Broadswing Hammer: This lucerne hammer allows its wielder to swing in supernaturally wide arcs. Striking a handful of foes is a simple task with this fine hammer.

Orichalcum Cannonball: This cannonball was forged from precious orichalcum, a metal hard as steel and bright as gold with other more wondrous qualities. It has also been enchanted to return after striking, ensuring the investment in such a fine cannonball is not wasted after one shot.

Bone of Wishing: The collarbone of a phoenix is rumored to grant a single wish to whoever wins the bigger half when pulled apart by two informed participants. Legend also states that anyone who lies to another about what sort of bone this is will burst into flames when the bone is cracked.

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These are all items my players have found, earned, or crafted in our ongoing campaign that started before I can even remember at this point. I am pre-writing this, so maybe it will have finally come to its epic conclusion.

Next week I begin our journey through the items in the Minish Cap. I absolutely loved playing the Minish Cap and really enjoyed drawing many of the items to come. 

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords Adventures: Dual dueling pistols for pistol duels

 Dual dueling pistols for pistol duels

Slingshot: The slingshot fires deku nuts that stun enemies. Charging up a shot before firing increases the shot's distance. These are the last of the pedestal items from Four Swords Adventures. If you don’t know by now, pedestal items can be found on pedestals throughout each level, but a Link can only carry one pedestal item at a time.

With the criminalization of pistol dueling came the advent of discreet pistol duels. Using small pistols that fire such an insignificant round as to rarely kill a person quickly, these duels gained popularity among the aristocratic youth. They are perfect for those ill-advised honor duels seen by young elites as exhilarating instead of foolish.

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That idea about dueling above is based on the real pre-World War I fad of sword dueling at university fencing clubs and proudly wearing facial scars earned in the duels.

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-Ceph

Drewly: Ursine Crossbow

 Ursine Crossbow

Crossbow: A strict traditionalist would never employ a contraption that could just as likely jame as shoot in a hunt. Thankfully we are not strict traditionalists so we can use this crossbow and keep our throwing knives for more desperate times.

The 19th of Drewly already. Crossbows are complicated to draw in perspective and they aren’t necessarily that interesting from a visual standpoint, but they do show up in a lot of fantasy adventures so I try to draw them every once in a while to see how well I can draw a crossbow at that exact time point. I usually end up a bit disappointed and accept that I have plenty of room left to grow.

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: A magical multishot bow.

 A magical multishot bow.

Bow: Like most items in the Four Swords games, the bow is a pedestal item that can only be used in the stage a Link picks it up. Link can use the bow to attack enemies from a safe distance or solve specific puzzles.

In lands where magical talent is as common as the breath in your chest, most learn to weave into their chosen trade. This bow was crafted for an arcane archer known for diving into the fray and fighting their way out. When charged with power the bow fires a wide volley of arrows, hopefully cutting a swathe of safety to retreat through.

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Drawing interesting but reasonable bows is quite tricky. All the fantasy game bows I looked at for reference are wildly over the top, I’m looking at you Blizzard. I tried to toe the line between a reasonable bow and an interesting bow. 

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

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: A Trebuchet that you can fit in your pocket?

 A Trebuchet that you can fit in your pocket?

Large Quiver: This second and final upgrade to Link’s quiver increases the amount of arrows he can carry to a towering 99. Link is given the upgrade by the Great Fairy that lives on Thorned Fairy Island. The entrance to the fairy’s home is blocked by thorny vines that Link can only clear using the Magic Hammer.

Want to stay out of trouble but still rain down terror? Pocket Siege’s Trebuchet is just the thing for you. This magically miniaturized trebuchet can be enlarged to its original size without needing to establish complex logistics and long baggage trains. With a Trebuchet from Pocket Siege, you can go from scouting the enemy’s defenses to firing your first barrage in as little as one hour.

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What else would you like to see from the industrious folks at Pocket Siege? Let me know what you’re hoping to see from them next.

Be excellent to each other.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A catapult you can fit in your pocket!

A catapult you can fit in your pocket!

Big Quiver: This upgrade to Link’s original quiver allows him to carry up to 60 arrows at any time. Link is given the upgrade by the Great Fairy that lives on the Western Fairy Island. The entrance to the fairy’s sanctuary is blocked by a wall of fire that can only be cleared by using the Magic Hammer. 

The product that started it all here at Pocket Siege was the Pocket Catapult. This magicallly miniaturized catapult is easy to store and carry while in its diminutive state, and can be returned to its normal size by completing the conveniently included de-minitiarizarion ritual. Here at Pocket Siege we believe you should enjoy catapults where you need it, not just where logistics make it feasible!

Ammunition, crew, and reminiaturization ritual not included.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A masterfully crafted musket axe

A masterfully crafted musket axe

 

Master Sword - Empowered: Last week we restored the edge to the once mighty Sword of Evil’s Bane, but it still lacked the power to truly seal evil away. To restore this power to the blade, Link must help a new Wind Sage rise and restore the Master Sword to its former glory. 

No expense was spared in the crafting of this musket axe. The finest bladesmiths and gunwrights were forced to work hand in hand to ensure the weapon functions as an impeccable pistol and a vicious axe. The weapon was then anointed with sacred symbols and blessed to fire true and cut deep, all so it may be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

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There will be plenty more Zelda games for me to draw a true to lore master sword. I really appreciated when Breath of the Wild did with its decayed master sword ravaged by fighting evil for ages. Maybe when I eventually get to the Breath of the Wild items, I will take another stab at drawing the legendary sword.

I will also have to increase the number of games I need to draw items for soon as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of Kingdom was announced for May of 2023. Fingers crossed it is enjoyable.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

#Drewly: Loot from a Storm Samurai

Loot from a Storm Samurai

Oda’s Hat: The samurai rarely needed to keep the sun out of their eyes since they were always being chased by stormy skies.

Lightning Blade: Oda could change the steel of their blade into a bolt of lightning when facing foes worthy of their skill.

Squall: Mighty winds chase the arrows shot from this bow. They are strong enough to knock over even heavily armored foes.

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Here are three items dropped by a storm-themed samurai my players defeated at great personal cost.

I will be posting a lot of work from my backlog that I haven’t gotten around to posting for the new art “challenge” Drewly. Drewly rhymes with July, if you say it JOO-lye,  and is for posting art you already have sitting around. It can be unfinished, finished, new, reposts, whatever. Just don’t make anything new for Drewly. Don’t forget to tag your drewly posts with #drewly.

I’m hoping to get a bunch of work out from my unpublished folder this month so look for a new post every single day.

Happy Drewly. See you tomorrow.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph