I've Been Making Window Clingies Of The Elemental Gems From Minish Cap And Four Swords (plus Rainbows

I've been making window clingies of the elemental gems from Minish Cap and Four Swords (plus rainbows because pride month) and I thought I'd put together a tutorial :)

Materials needed:

Permanent markers

Clear cellophane wrap

Scisors

Paper to sketch or print your design on

Not strictly necessary but useful:

Tape (for holding your pattern in place)

Something with a straight edge, like a ruler or bone folder (for smoothing out the plastic)

Step one:

Decide on a design. I drew mine digitally and printed it out. The printer had an issue, but eh, I can still see the lines, it's good enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Step two:

Fold a sheet of cellophane wrap in half to make a double-layered sheet that is a little bigger than your intended design. Try your best not to get it too crumply and wrinkled, but in my experience a little bit of crinkling is unavoidable. Best not to get too perfectionist about it, and just embrace it as part of the stained-glass look!

Unfortunately, cellophane being clear, this step is hard to photograph ^^;;

Step three:

Lay the double-sided cellophane sheet over the top of your design. The best way I found to keep everything in place was to tape the pattern to a smooth surface and stick the plastic down around it.

Starting with the lightest colors first to avoid color bleed, start coloring your design, leaving the lineart for last.

Step four:

At this point, the colors might look nice and vibrant against the white paper, but when you pick the plastic up and hold it up to the light, it will likely look washed-out and/or streaky.

To build up the colors more, fold another layer of cellophane and place it on top of the inked side of your current sheet. Then go over the colors and lines again, once again in order from lightest to darkest.

Keep adding layers until you're satisfied with the darkness of the colors. You can even get some interesting effects and shading by combining layers of different colors!

Step five:

When you're done, add one final layer of cellophane to the top to protect the inks. If you have a ruler or bone folder, I recommend using it now to smooth out the plastic and press the layers together as much as possible.

Then just trim around the edges and slap it on your window! :D

It's funny how Twilight Princess has a reputation for being the 'edgy' Zelda game when it's so fucking silly and straight up campy at times. Like they really had the penultimate boss that the game had been building up to from the beginning be this dancing capering twink who falls off platforms and gets his head stuck in the dirt and whose preferred method of sword based combat is- "wave it around wildly and hope it hits something".

The entire race of Hylians was created by a progenitor race of chicken sized chicken people in the canon of Twilight Princess. This is played completely straight.

The kingdom's dungeons where prisoners are fucking executed, is operated by use of a man sized Beyblade that serves no purpose other than operating these mechanisms. This is never commented on. The final boss fight of this same dungeon is a literal rollercoaster ride where link uses the Beyblade to jump tracks and kill the enemy. Who is the manifestation of the resentment and power of the dead. Killed. By a twink riding a beyblade.

One of the main characters is a toddler with the cadence and vocabulary of a jaded thirty year old, who performs a hostile takeover of the city's premier center of commerce, which he then transforms into a toddler-themed bazaar. This is also played completely straight.

Bigfoot is real and also a wife guy. There is no explanation as to where he fits in in the races created by the gods.

All of my stained-glass-style pride birds for this year!

I had hoped to do more than just these four, but it's been a rough few weeks disability-wise. In any case, thank you all for your support, kind words, and patience! And particularly thank you to those who have bought my art from my Redbubble store (AdoraBirdArt)!

Various Loz doodles :)

Ding dong, here’s the final chapter! I have an epilogue in mind so that may come later, but for now, Thanks  so so much for the response to this series and Enjoy!

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