Study - Darunia

I felt it would be fun to make a study of every Zelda character once in awhile, both canon and OC that I have drawn or will come to draw in my series and maybe shed light as to why I chose their designs.

"In the time it took for you to debate matters of war with your foe you could have simply punched them in the face." -Darunia.

Full name and other titles: Darunia, Sage of Fire, the Ruby Sage

Appearances: Ocarina of Time, Mentioned in Wind Waker and Zelda II (canon), Gerudo Wars, The Fallen Sage, Time's Menagerie (non-canon)

Design Notes: Darunia is a tough one to draw. Quite honestly when I first made this design for the Fallen Sage three years ago I just took random armor pictures from the Gorons in TP and slapped them on Darunia via copy and paste. Nowdays I'm able to actually draw, and it's been tough to recreate that armor and still have it make sense. I think in the end he still looks pretty badass though...

Other Zelda related studies: [link]