The 2021 Quest Manifesto!

About Linktober Quest...

Linktober Quest is a drawing challenge that focuses on visual development in a linear journey that you create.
The Linktober Quest concept is from the mind of D.B. Root and then collaborated on with Joel to put together the QUEST CALENDAR. Click any of the topics below to jump to that section or scroll and read all.
Why do Linktober Quest vs. the Original Linktober?
Linktober Quest was designed as an interactive journey through your own world and as a chance to practice visual development. This focuses on storytelling, design, and continuity within a structured format. This, also gives an opportunity to enrich the Legend of Zelda world with characters and places that may not be canon to the series. By the end of the game you'll have a body of visual development material that could be polished up for things like portfolio entries, inspiration for other characters/stories, or a window into a world you built.
How Does it Work?          New Game          The Story          Prompts          Clarification
How Does it Work?
Like many drawing challenges there are 31 prompts that give a topic (prompt) for what to draw each day in that month. The difference is that in Linktober Quest, the drawing challenges are like a new page in your own adventure...

On the first day you create a new character in the style of Legend of Zelda as if you are designing a new game. After designing/choosing your character each new daily prompt will be another part of the world you'll uncover, ranging from characters, to props, and environments.
At the end you'll have built a small view into a world you've crafted.

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New Game
Imagine that you are the Art Director for a new Legend of Zelda Game.

Each Week your original character travels to a new location with each prompt being affected by the new environment. All prompts are either a: Character, Prop, or Location. It's up to you how you interpret the concept, but it should have something to do with the setup in the below introduction.
This is your story told through the pictures you draw.
Isle of the Season Faeries

​Once the land was whole, flourished and Evergreen. Never changing and unending.
Some believed it to be a land of safety, others a place of stagnation.
The Great Fairy sought change, so that the land could finally grow in new ways. 
The one island became 4, each with their own season, champion, and fairy.
But in her weakened state, Ganondorf had a different change in mind. cursing her incarnations.
Little did Ganondorf know that the Great fairy had made one last island, with one Champion, and one last Fairy. 

**Note: For each Season’s Champion the participant can choose to swap an original champion from another participant’s Calendar with the change in seasonal theme.

Linktober Quest Prompts:

  1. Your (Original Character) Champion and Fairy
  2. Their Island/ Home
  3. Island Transportation
  4. Spring Treehouse
  5. Poison Monster
  6. Seedy Item Shop 
  7. Natural Weapon
  8. Treehouse Champion
  9. Rot Fairy 
  10. Wet Hut
  11. Your Summer Outfit
  12. Heat Creature
  13. Octork Event 
  14. Summer Zelda 
  15. Traveling Champion
  16. Fishing/Fishy Fairy
  17. Fall Horror House
  18. Haunted Favorite Character
  19. Mask Shop 
  20. Mask Enemy 
  21. Undead Champion
  22. Mutated Link 
  23. Puppetmaster Fairy 
  24. Winter Armor 
  25. Warm Food
  26. Icy townspeople
  27. Hot weapon
  28. Icy/Heat Champion
  29. Giant Frost Fairy 
  30. Ganon/ Gannondorf 
  31. Restored Great Fairy

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Need help figuring out what to do with your prompt? Check out the Linktober Pinterest for inspiration and references to help you along your way.
Prompt Clarification and Examples

The color coded Character Design/ Prop Design/ Location Design exist to help clarify the proposed outcome of each prompt.
Beginning
​1. Your Champion and Fairy Character Design
2. Your Island/ Home Location Design

Spring Island
3. Island Transportation Prop Design
4. Spring Treehouse Location Design
5. Poison Monster Character Design
6. Seedy Item Shop Location Design
7. Natural Weapon Prop Design
8. Treehouse Champion Character Design
9. (BOSS DAY) Rot Fairy  Character Design / Location Design

Summer Island
10. Wet Hut Location Design
11. Your Summer Outfit Prop Design
12. Heat Creature Character Design
13. Octorok Event Character Design / Location Design
14. Summer Zelda Character Design
15. Traveling Champion Character Design
16. (BOSS DAY) Fishing/Fishy Fairy Character Design / Location Design

Fall Island
17. Fall Horror House Location Design
18. Haunted Favorite Character Character Design
19. Mask Shop Location Design / Prop Design
20. Mask Enemy Character Design / Prop Design
21. Undead Champion Character Design
22. Mutated Link Character Design
23. (BOSS DAY) Puppetmaster Fairy  Character Design / Location Design

Winter Island
24. Winter Armor Prop Design
25. Warm Food Prop Design
26. Icy townspeople Character Design
27. Hot weapon Prop Design
28. Icy/Heat Champion Character Design
29. (BOSS DAY) Giant Frost Fairy Character Design / Location Design
30. (BOSS DAY) Ganon/ Gannondorf  Character Design
31. Restored Great Fairy Character Design / Location Design