Customer Reviews

How to Draw the Legend of Zelda

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Although this is a helpful book, it is missing some of the most important people. It doesn't have an adult Zelda or any of the Seven Sages. It does have Saria, though. It also doesn't have any of the Zoras. It has Deku Link, but none of his other bodies. The Skull Kid isn't there, either. I don't know if you should buy it. If there is a more complete book on the way, I would wait for it. What they do have is very good, though, so if you're happy with Link and Ganon, this book is great.

What I was hoping for with this book was details. The inking was really thick, so the really fine details were hard to distinguish, making my purchase for that sake fruitless.
Also, the number of characters in the book is a piddling 13, and a number of those aren't characters, but rather monsters from Ocarina of Time. While they are marginally interesting in their own right, I think the space would be better used on more important characters.
The book's quite cheap, so you may want it as a guide to the rough proportions of a few characters. It's not worth much more than its cover price, though.

I like this book a lot, but foir each charecter, there are only one pose. I love legend of zelda, so it automaticly gets 5 stars. but i reduced it to 4 cuz it only had the following:zelda, link, saria, ganon, deku scrub, link in a pose, a garon, and a tektite. i realy like twighlight princess, and wind waker, but it only had ocarina of time (also a great game). I think you should buy it if you want a blast from the past, or u r a total nerd(i'm a nerd :]).

The book covers a step by step on how to draw, but did not cover a lot of the characters in the game

Remember those how-to-draw books you picked-up as a kid? Like, how to draw cats, dogs, cars, trees, or whatever? This book runs in that genre. The book is very short, and was meant for children roughly 9-12. It plays heavily on the "make it out of basic shapes, and then refine it" technique. The first steps usually involve drawing different sets of triangles, circles, or rectangles, which eventually lead to the character you're drawing. The "finished drawings" aren't so hot, usually done with very thick lines all around. As said, this is better for kids. It is, however, worth picking up at the library and taking a look at, if you want. If you do like it, after sampling it, then sure, buy it. ;D
The best way to learn to draw Zelda characters, currently, is through learning anime or cartoon-animation styles of drawing, and then using official Zelda art as reference when you draw those characters.

Bought this book for son who is going to college to be a video animator. He didn't like this book at all! We do not recommend spending the money on this book. Look to other books for help with art design.

Hours of entertainment creating game characters. Who knows? May lead to a career in entertainment animation...

I had to have this for my LOZ collection - however it falls prey to the classic How To Draw book blunders in that it doesn't really provide useful instructions. It's a three step process: blocks and shapes, details, MASTERPIECE. Being a novice scrawler, I'd like to have a little more instruction and more than three steps.

I'm a bit disapointed, as i wanted to know much more about link famous character drawing. Instead, whe have several characters, and less than 3 pages per each. The preview was more interesting than the whole book itself !

I thought this book was fun and was easy to follow. I was a little upset by the lack of characters in the actual book itselft, but the drawings were fine and the instructions were good.