painting the walls

with the blood of monsters.

now you know why i haven't been posting.
this took FOREVER. some of you may have watched the sporadic livestreaming sessions (like, three people otl XD) a while back. (there are a couple videos up if you'd like [link] )

YUS THAT IS GIRL SHEIK. I HAVE A GUY SHEIK PIC I'M WORKING ON. B/C I DRAW BOTH GUY AND GIRL SHEIK. SO THERE. NO ARGUING ABOUT SHEIK'S GENDER. SAVE THAT FOR FORUMS. THANK YOU.

anyways, yeah, i've been working on this for over half a month (i think). idk exactly how many hours. and therefore a big fat honking watermark. b/c art theft AIN'T COOL, KIDS!

proud of the bg. i actually made one! hooray! and the coloring in general. i was trying a new style, heavily based of of *Mudora's style (she put up this awesome tut and it's the best thing ever, THANK YOU SO MUCH! ) and the torch came out pretty good too omg sooo many tuts and refs used for this i can't name them all atm otl all the refs and brushes and that jazz is from dA though thank you, people i used your sources! i'll put up links as soon as it's not 2 AM!

uhh it's supposed to be the shadow temple but idk if it's dark enough. i would've needed to play for a couple hours on oot, since i just restarted the file, otl. maybe it'll just be that room with the invisible walls and all the floormasters that try to jump at you but can't b/c of the invisible walls.
... am i being coherent? does anyone know what i'm refering to?

stuff i don't like? the floor. although it was better then it was before (before it looked like newly polished stone), it's too sandy atm i didn't define the rocks enough same for the wall (although the wall's better) ahh the hair i could work on i guess... and the floormaster's pose. it's kinda non-actiony. same with sheik. in the sketch, you can see all the speed lines and stuff, but b/c of the color, you can't see it as much now and her left arm's funky. and even if the blood looks really cool, it's kinda... flat? idk. what's the word i'm looking for...?

and so therefore, i ask for critique, please! i've identified a lot that's already wrong with this, but what else is wrong, and do you have suggestions on how to improve it?

shiek, floormasters, other zelda related stuff (c) nintendo
art (c) me
again, critique is greatly appreciated!
p.s.: there's a lot of blood here. however, it's green blood and so therefore, supposedly rated E... right? idk. if someone believes this should have a mature warning, i'll put one on right away. thanks for your concern!

pose: [link]
blood: [link] [link] and [link] i think....?
coloring tech.: based off [link]
fire: based off [link]

thanks in advance for your comments and favs!