This picture is also based on my own story, just after Link coughwinsthegamecough kills Ganon the King of Evil, only Rana gets killed too. Eeesh, how to explain…
Uh, well, she got shot, but not badly, and then got hurt again and that made the arrow go into a more fatal position? In the sequel (remember, I wrote this when I was young) Nayru and Farore, two of the three goddesses, associated with the Triforces of Wisdom and Courage which are borne by Zelda and Link respectively, were going to revive her so she could become the new bearer of the Triforce of Strength so that Ganondorf couldn’t use it anymore. Eheh. Oh, and she was ‘buried’ inside a block of ice so everybody could see her.
Ummmmm, now I have to decide whether I’m going to actually kill her off or have it so she doesn’t actually die, but somehow Link has to think she does or else the point of the intermediary chapters is zero. Uh, it’ll all come clear when I start putting the story up.
There used to be two fairies in this picture, Navi and the dying Naeri, but I edited them out since they were even worse than the rest of this picture. It’s called Rana’s Death II because I drew a Rana’s Death I and it was absolutely horrible. It had Zelda and Ganon in it too, and Zelda’s hair was good but the rest was terrible. This one, I like the composition (except the fairies) and the pose and shading and all, but although it’s a rather personal picture to me, I’m not happy with it anymore. I was drawing in the style I copied from the official Zelda art for Ocarina of Time, but I didn’t do it too well. The eyes are too high up. Oh, and those Hylian ears are baaaaad.