TITLE: BS Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets (Inishie no Sekiban) Mock-up Cover Art MEDIUM: Adobe Photoshop

This was a little side editing project I was commissioned to do for a group called the BS Zelda Homepage. Their focus was to create an "official looking" artwork piece for a Zelda game that existed only in Japan via a short-lived specialized satellite network system called the Satellaview. Apparently people living in Japan during this time could sign on to play a direct sequel the Super Nintendo Zelda: A Link to the Past that has all new dungeons and time-attack challenges. Instead of playing as Link you played as the green-haired, baseball cap wearing BS Satellaview Mascot.

For this project I was asked to design a cover art for the game that consisted of editing previously existing Zelda artwork into something completely new for to commemorate the release of the final patch of the emulated game, which took about 2-3 years for this group to work on and complete. I'm pretty satisfied with how I edited the left arm, head and tiara on Zelda to make a completely different image of her fit together with the body/rightarm of her princess outfit. This image of Zelda did not exist before this project started. As far as it is known, no official artwork was ever concieved for the game's initial release in Japan, so this is about as close as one would get.