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Ganondorfby *d-torres

Fan Art / Digital Art / Painting & Airbrushing / Games

This is easily one of my favorite characters. Ganondorf is the classical evil enemy, greedy and seeking to conquer all the land, and bound everyone to it's will. The gerudos are an interesting race in terms of visual and i always wanted to paint this fire head dark king. My first encounter with him was on Ocarina of Time, and i remember like if it were yesterday, Link and Zelda spying on the king's court window and seeing this man pretending to be a king's ally, on his knees, and then suddenly he turns his head to the camera and sees you.

That gave me the creeps when i had 12. That pure evil look, seeing through your soul with that cynical smile on his face. That is what i tried to represent here. Ganondorf is power on the triforce, brute force, so he needed to be massive in a way. The background needed to be almost pure black, like if he is emerging from the darkness over a flaming ground. His pale face is something very odd and terrifying too but i really wanted to give that red-dark light feel to represent his evilness, so when you see his face, it's covered on a malice red light. This is not the guy you'll want to mess with. That wraps up the first set. I hope you like it!

Make sure to check the step by step on my blog:

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Ganondorf's expression sends shivers down my spine. What a fantastic portrait! Fan Art by ~Toguza ( Suggested by *Sarky-Sparky and Featured by ^KasumiCR )

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~Tabbytooner 2 days ago

Incredible work on this! The lighting is very good, and the details on his skin are amazing. Way to go!

*RoqueRobinArt May 16, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I love this drawing dude awesome job

*d-torres May 16, 2013

Thanks!

*RoqueRobinArt May 16, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

My pleasure

~LinksWifeForever Apr 22, 2013 Artist

I SWEAR this Ganondorf is the MOST REALISTIC GANONDORF EVER! He totally looks DEAD ON HIM like omg you could so put this in a Zelda movie!!!

*d-torres Apr 22, 2013

Thanks! I'm near done to put up a Zelda Print sale. Stay tuned!

~LinksWifeForever Apr 23, 2013 Artist

Wow that's awesome and you're welcome! ^ ^

~MarvelousQueen Mar 22, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I really can't find anything technically wrong with this; it's undoubtedly a masterful work. Though I do personally feel that giving Ganondorf an unnaturally large mouth is part of what makes him unnerving, which is the only thing I feel is missing from this.

Just a little thing that nags at me, is all. Excellent work.

*d-torres Mar 24, 2013

I kinda agree with you on this. But this is part of the challenge of making such cartoonish characters in a realistic approach. I decided to give him a less large mouth, and concentrate in the overall expression. But thanks a lot for the feedback. Stay tuned with the posts. I 'll be selling prints of these fanart series really soon.

~MarvelousQueen Mar 29, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

That is a significant quagmire; on the one hand, you don't want to make the suspension of disbelief too difficult to achieve, but at the same time distorting something to unrealistic proportions can accentuate the effect of a piece. I honestly do think you hit a great balance with this (and I'm obviously not the only one), it's simply a personal preference of mine to lean a bit toward a stylized vision.

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