There was a recent interview with Terada & I believe he said the same thing as this: he was given guides to work off of. The guide I posted with the pink-haired female Link was done by Tokuma Shoten/Wanpakku/Workhouse. Workhouse also did Nintendo Power art www.hyruleinterviews.com/Email-interv...

My guess is all 3! Also the artists probably thought it would be fun for a drawing. But I know from artists at 2 studios that they would just be given previous strategy guides to help them work on their projects.

This was one of the first guides: historyofhyrule.blogspot.com/2022/05/arch...

As far as I can tell only the author is listed in the guide and none of the artists. If the information is in an unorthodox place in it though I may have just missed it.

Thanks!

They're actually just tiny little envelopes. Here's some photos of them online (I scanned these a while ago and my scan doesn't show the back flap this well)

Thanks! I didn't think this would take so long 😆

They're not super perfect but they're fairly decent patch-jobs to get one nice image to look at. I'm uploading the completely text-free/cleaned art too: bsky.app/profile/its-...

Oddly is seems several weren't really online? Or were very small

This took a really long time but I was finally able to stitch together all the scans for this 1987 #Nintendo Famicom calendar with rare art for #Mario, #Zelda, #Metroid, Murasame Castle, and the Mario Anime. The cleaned 2400dpi files are uploaded with RAWS incoming: archive.org/details/1987...

Gotta snort every inch of it

My mother spoke it. I use to understand what people were saying sometimes.

I am so sorry. I ..I hate this reality.

I know how this feels. Before the ACA I couldn't afford care when I needed it. I am so sorry. I am gutted this is happening. I hate that this is happening to you.

They're definitely most excellent bewbs

This is gorgeous! Your colors are so good in it and there's so much mood

With English being my first, and only, language you'd think I'd be better at it. 😆

That one is SO UNSETTLING! That and the tektite that seems to have multiple optic nerves attached to its lens. I mean, I kind of love them but they really are nightmare fuel!

lol. I feel like I feel that way nearly every day XD

I'm going to re-add it! Glad you mentioned it! I actually took it off really early because I wasn't really sure what was going on and I wanted to be able to see the shapes more clearly, but once I realized it was a banner I had the same thought, it would make sense for it to stay. TY!!

I'm glad you mentioned that because I took it off early and then, once I figured out it was a scroll, I realized it was meant to be a part of the image: so I wanted to go back and re-add it, but it's been a few days so I probably would have forgotten, lol

Right? I kept 2nd guessing myself! But when I would look at the bubble text I would see little hints something wasn't completely hidden.

So, who knows, but I'm glad it seems like a decent enough guess that people are okay with it! Looks nice to not have it coated in lettering.

That is an epic bOrb