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"But you can't rule me no more
I'm packed to go and out the door
And here's to you, old friend
Here's to never seeing your face again..."


Flat-coloured version of this one. I'll probably scrap it when I do a shaded version, but flats are useful for colour reference anyway. Chopped out the backgrounds entirely because I'm sick of even thinking about them >.<; I think this gives them a nice sort of look.

I hope I'm not spoilering with this, but Skri is essentially the result of a "mad scientist" type boss who tried to hybridise different species of Hyrule. Skri is one of his resounding successes, a Hylian/Goron mix. In game terms, he'd be a recurring miniboss who keep wrecking bits of the dungeon rather than fighting you.

Annoying picture to colour, like it though I do... I did his skin way too dark, his tattoos the wrong colour, and his hair red. Frsk. Well, now he looks proper goron-colours, at least. It's not like I couldn't change those colours, since he's a magicky hybrid anyway, but I think he needed the colours to look Goron-ish at all. And anyway, I think he looks better this way :3 *strokeshair*

Song Lyrics = Through the Forest, Captain Tractor.

:icontalenlee:: the other white meat.

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:iconrueyeet:
He doesn't look very Goron, apart from the color scheme in general; but I imagine I'd think otherwise if he punched me. :D

Love the detail on his pants. And, of course, the MANCHEST. At last, Fox draws a manly man! XD
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:iconfoxlee:
~foxlee Aug 23, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yeah, the goron part isn't really obvious; visually it's only expressed in his colours (and his size - he's like 7'6"). His hide is very rocky, though, and he has the goron fire resistance/water weakness :3
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:iconrueyeet:
Ohmy. Yeah, his height wouldn't have been apparent in this single shot.

Experimenter dude did a pretty good job, then. :D
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:icontenchibaka:
i do like this, though i'm not really a zelda person, glad to see you are back on deviant even if it is no longer base that keeps you here
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:icontalenlee:
Ostensibly, his skin is quite hard, like keratin, he can wade through lava unaffected, can't swim, and is damn near impossible to hurt. When you eventually fight him as a boss, I imagine you'd have to tip him off a stage, or have him destroy the stage around you.
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:iconknightofmodernday:
*KnightOfModernDay Jan 28, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Interesting.
That would be some insanely heat-resistant keratin. ;) But, I get what you're saying.
It seems water would be the only way to defeat him. But wait, Gorons can survive underwater too... Uh oh.
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:iconfoxlee:
~foxlee Jan 29, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Wait, don't Gorons die in the water? Goron-Link certainly does.
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:iconknightofmodernday:
*KnightOfModernDay Jan 29, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Maybe in Majora's Mask, but in Twilight Princess, at some point in the game, a Goron gets stuck in a volcano rock and you save the Zoras from the ice that was imprisoning them with that still warm volcanic rock. Later, you get water bombs and you're able to free the Goron. He seemed to be just fine underwater...
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~foxlee Jan 29, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Ohyeah, I forgot about that guy! Well, Skri is OoT era technically (even though I patterned him after TP Goron colours, on account of them looking really good on him >.<;). So I guess it's a mystery.
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:iconknightofmodernday:
*KnightOfModernDay Jan 29, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
A mystery indeed.
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