Artist Focus: uniqueLegend

I like many different types of art, and digital art is definitely one of the categories I like most. Combine this with my favoritism of semi-realism and my favorite video game franchise and we get artists like uniqueLegend, a skilled deviantARTist known for his Zelda work. He is a 23 year old Australian artist who began drawing at an early age, yet has only been working with digital media for the past 4 years. He uses a combination of Correl Painter and Adobe Photoshop and is a personal inspiration for what I may be able to do when I grow my skills at digital media. With that said, let's see what art he makes!

This is titled Hero's Shade, and it a portrait of a long-dead hero's spirit that still lingers trapped with regret between the natural world and the afterlife. The balance of this piece works well, and the simple background helps the Shade stand out. The colors work together well and the value helps sell the illusion that this ghost is three-dimensional. The vegetation on the armor also adds just enough variety to ensure that this picture is visually interesting.

This piece of artwork is titled Final Day, an obvious reference to the macabre apocalyptic event that is soon to occur. A surreal moon with a disturbing face is coming crashing down on a walled human city known as Clock Town and there seems to be absolutely no hope for its survival. The balance here is near perfectly symmetrical and the atmospheric perspective helps give a sense of scale. The color here gives a very dark mood to the art and the implied line of the moon's gaze to the helpless structures bellow makes the picture all the more ominous.

The final work of uniqueLegend's that I'll be showing is titled Challenge Awaits, and shows a heroic Link determinedly marching forward towards some unseen threat. If there is one thing I like most about this piece, it's absolutely the color. Everything is vibrant and looks very bold, and there is a sublte light area around him to help his body stand out better. The flame makes for a undetailed yet intense background and our protagonist's entire body is facing offscreen, making him a massive implied line to our left. Overall this is likely my favorite work of uniqueLegend.


For a further look at uniqueLegend's art, you can find the rest here: http://uniquelegend.deviantart.com/