100 Palettes Challenge // Palette #2 // Ancient Gear by @3ofpents

Today’s palette is from a storybook page from 1901.

The first thing I thought of when I looked at this palette was Link from Legend of Zelda. The greens and the yellow are particularly dominant, and I initially wanted to try and do some fanart of him at night by a fire or up behind the Temple of Time in Tears of the Kingdom in the Zonai outfit. But I didn’t think that there was quite enough of a variety in the colors for me, personally to pull it off (I think someone with more experience could create a beautiful piece like that and if anyone does I would love to see it).

But then I was thinking about the Zonai outfit and realized that this palette actually has every color in it, including the replacement arm.

And I genuinely love this outfit. I especially love the dangling triforces. So I wanted to do something inspired by this outfit, and decided to try out making a pattern that used the iconic elements of it — the colors, the danglies, the gold pattern over his shoulder, and his arm.

There are two versions because I did the triforce stripe first and was so excited about it that I replicated it into stripes first, completely forgetting that I was also going to do a section that mimicked the arm. I genuinely really love that version, so I had to save it and you can see it here, but it didn’t include all of the colors in the palette, so I had to definitely finish it and this is the version with the full palette.

I do really like both versions, I think they give two different vibes. But if I were making a piece of clothing out of this theoretical fabric, I would personally go for the triforce-only version.