Jackary Archives Day 131 - Leather Zelda (Agent 8?) [2021] (Patreon)

Today's Archives Post is Zelda from Breath of the Wild, wearing a tight lil leather outfit!

Just like the Mona you saw yesterday, this specific drawing of Zelda will have several different appearances in the Jackary Archives. She's appeared three times already, one of those times featuring a modified version of this outfit. But the show must go on, and at the risk of these posts being redundant, here's yet another outfit variation of "Gerudo" Zelda!

But hold up! This post has a few versions of this outfit that have only ever been available in an obscure Gumroad pack, so this might actually be new content for some of you! Included here are a few recolors, as well as versions with short hair and... glasses?!

ARTIST NOTES

Want to know some fun trivia about this drawing? The "canon" version of this drawing is, of course, Gerudo Zelda, one of my most popular drawings ever, and still one of my favorites to this day.

But did you know that, A) this leather outfit was actually the original commission for this drawing, and B) the leather outfit is Agent 8's outfit from Splatoon?

So yeah, the "original" version of one of my most popular drawings was actually a random commission of Zelda cosplaying a Splatoon outfit. He wanted her taking a selfie, and once I worked in the Sheikah Slate, it just seemed too cute to not expound on, so I went ahead and designed a cute Gerudo outfit for her and that's how I arrived at that drawing.

It was so popular that I marketed it as the "main" version of this drawing, since Zelda wearing Agent 8's outfit is a lot more random and not quite as shareable. The commissioner was happy and fine with this, so all's well that ends well!

One last thing -- if the glasses versions seem really random, it's because I put all of the variants of this drawing into a Gumroad pack, and I thought it'd be cute to make a version with glasses for her pajama outfit. Since the deed was done, I went ahead and made versions for her other outfits as well!

I also made an edit with her TOTK hair as part of that original pack, which had only barely been teased at that point. It wasn't until later that I realized I got the hair a bit wrong and made another edit that is closer to how it actually looks.