This is an original character who takes place in the Zelda Universe. His timeline placement puts him in the Legend of Zelda's Switch title - Breath of the Wild - where he is an eager engineer trying to get the ancient machines of the Guardians running again. He is considered among his allies a dense airhead, though he is levelheaded and capable of showing no emotions, making him hard to read and understand.
I decided to draw this image completely in photoshop, as opposed creating a hand sketch. It was a bit harder to draw him this way because i am not used to digital artwork. I used my own references of the same character to ensure I was drawing and coloring him correctly.
The book is using actual symbols from Breath of the Wild. They have real sentences, like "[...] finally designed by an ancient civilization [...]". It took a few minutes to write the entire script of the page, but it took hours to get the writing in the ancient language to make it look like an old book. Though it took time, it was worth it to make the book have its own work.
Edin has a long backstory, including being mixed blood with another race, having a thief for a father and accidentally killing his mother when he was 16 years old. This backstory is designed so that it could be applied to a unique series; however, he is designed exclusively to the Zelda Universe. This picture was drawn for a 5" x 7" card.
