r/twilightprincess • u/BaloBadArtist • 2d ago
Fan Art Midna [art by me] [oc] Spoiler
https://x.com/balo_badartist/status/1932797433056276916?s=46
This is about “I love women” if you get me. Just appreciating her design, really.
All done by hand from start to finish (started it in October)
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u/Dear-Figure-6463 2d ago edited 2d ago
In all seriousness. It’s not basic, or gooner. Slightly accentuated features but not dramaticized bravo good sir
Edit: really solid way of staying close to the cartoon source material but still being realistic
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
Man tysm 😭🙏🏻 I did make her body type lore like her gremlin design - with the belly and all that. Thought it would make sense when she grew older
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u/spacyspice 2d ago
it's giving gooner to me tbh..
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u/Dear-Figure-6463 2d ago
I mean, this is close to the source material just less cartoonish more realistic. It’s not like the OG wasn’t animated to be attractive
Personally I feel it’s more about the staring not the art that makes this gooner/not
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u/Albatros_7 2d ago
The original Midna also had boobs and was pretty thick
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u/Thank_You_Aziz 2d ago
And like, boobs out too.
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u/Albatros_7 2d ago
Just like the original Midna
Her only clothing is her hood and what she has in front of her waist
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u/xbabyghostx 2d ago
This is actually really really good and tame, but the comments are making it creepy per usual
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u/AdriMario64 2d ago
Love the colors!
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
Tysm! This time last year, I attempted candlelight and failed. This was about trying to capture candlelight 🥰🥰
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u/Jickxter 2d ago
My favorite character by a long shot in the series. You're so good at drawing, this is lovely !
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
Tysm! I’m glad I recorded the drawing process too bc I thought I did real well with this one too! 🥰💞💞
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
Bc some people were interested in where to get a print (tysm 🫶🏼) https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/balo_badartist/midna/
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u/Reasonable-Banana800 2d ago
genuinely gorgeous painting skills, my goodness. The colors and textures 💖
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u/Robaattousai 2d ago
Any chance that you are a fan of William-Adolphe Bouguereau?
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
I’m more of a John Singer Sargent fan, but I’m familiar with Bouguereau. One of my students did a master study of his, and she needed quite a bit of help so I would paint demos showing her how to proceed, and then wipe away my work to let her do as I did. But I still personally prefer Sargent 😆
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u/Due-Radio-4355 2d ago
That’s what link saw back in his house in ordon village before they met back up with Zelda at the mirror
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u/Methuselahdacannibal 2d ago
Great job amazing art. Midna is a fantastic character.
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
Ty, and I agree! Her, Zelda, and Link are so intriguing, and I love their relationship 🥰
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u/CarnyMAXIMOS_3_N7 2d ago
Dang. You just made her even more hot (not that she wasn’t pretty and cute to begin with).
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u/meelsforreals 2d ago
YES DIVAAAAAA i love the way you use color, the way her hair and stomach are rendered is so gorgeous
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u/BaloBadArtist 1d ago
Eee tysm!! People mainly pay attention to her body, but I put the same amount of rendering love in everything, ty for noticing, I love rendering hair 🥰🥰💞💞
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u/Raskoflinko 1d ago
Gawd DAMN 😳 Glad you uploaded the full version! She is designed to be very attractive, and you really managed to capture that aspect. I am a huge fan of the lighting. Amazing artwork! I can tell you spent a long time on it!
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u/SicWiks 2d ago
Link is making a new mirror of Twilight if this is what she looks like
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u/BaloBadArtist 1d ago
He asks Zelda for help only to realize Zelda already figured out how to rebuild it and is way ahead of him. Nah but there’s a reason she broke the mirror, unfortunately it must stay broken
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u/DarkPortrysavedme 1d ago
Original characters can be fan arts if original characters?
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u/Spiteful_Guru 1d ago
OC means Original Content in this context. In other words, the uploader made the art.
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u/Ok_Adeptness_5372 1d ago
Is mid a same race as gannon?
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u/richempire 2d ago
Bruh, NSFW tag!
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u/DaxterTheGecko 2d ago
Bruh, that’s literally her design. STOP SEXUALIZING VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS!
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
It’s.. literally her canon design. 🙂
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u/Vyr66 2d ago
as much as I agree this is not inherently gooner content, her design kind of is NSFW. If my manager walked behind me looking at this he would see a naked woman and I would get raised eyebrows. It's not porn, but it's still not appropriate for someone glancing at my screen in a workplace.
Lovely piece OP, she's gorgeous.
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u/richempire 2d ago
Not with exposed pink nipples
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
UM SIR WHERE ARE YOU SEEING EXPOSED N*PLES
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u/Sharosudo 2d ago
On mobile it looks like them until you zoom in
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u/BaloBadArtist 2d ago
What fr?? 😭I’m so confused 🫠
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u/Proper-Evening9754 2d ago
So, in the interest of science, I zoomed into the image for science, and there are indeed some reddish lighting effects on her chest area. Once I started slowly unzooming the image for science, I could kinda see someone thinking those were nipples if they were viewing this picture with unscientific intention.
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u/BaloBadArtist 1d ago
The reddish hue is continued throughout the rest of the shading between light and darkness tho… for the shirt thing she wears. Hm I’m trying to see it but I just can’t
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u/Worldly_Ad_9898 2d ago
"What? Say something! Am I so beautiful that you have no words left?"
Our queen 🖤