Fading some of the outlines does seem to blend them into the shading pretty seamlessly.

Hmm... not bad.

All of that reference material of statues is really paying off. Nah that's a lie. I keep forgetting to look at them. But in spite of that this picture managed to come out pretty decent anyway.

Maybe I'll try fading some of the outlines for the fabric folds to make them blend in more seamlessly.

Also color... I was planning to add that at some point.

There, now she has feet

I also slut-ified her expression more. You know... to keep her in-character. It's just not N64 Zelda unless she is undressing Link with her eyes.

Here's a comparison of before and after. I started with the scaled down vector lines, and ended up with sprite art. The idea is to make every detail as clear as possible.

(...and accidentally leave out her feet, whoopsie)

Aside from a few adjustments here and there, this is a pretty straight-forward process.

And finally I'll bring in the double-sized line art into Photoshop and scale it down with bilinear scaling to create this picture with nice clear details for me to trace over to Aseprite in create sprite-art.

It looks very similar to the small picture in Paint Tool Sai, but scaling in Photoshop creates slightly cleaner results for some reason.

And now for a few final adjustments. Scale the vector lines down to half size. (the intended size of the sprite) And adjust a few things to space out the lines a little more to clarify a few details. Then scale it back up to double size.

Now to trace over this sketch with vector lines in Paint Tool Sai using it's intuitive "curve" tool.

This is the part where I figure out what size I want my sprite to be.

Faces tend to be the hardest part so lets pick a small detail on the face that I want to show clearly. Measuring the mouth, it is about 21 pixels tall. I think I want give myself 3 pixels of height to draw the mouth. So now let's break out the 'ol proportion formula and figure out what percentage to scale this down to make the mouth 3 pixels tall.

```
21px -> 3px
---- ----
100% ?%
```

Now I just divide diagonal numbers and divide by the remaining number. So multiply 3px times 100%, and then divide by 21px, and the answer is just a little over 14%
I'll round up to 15% to give myself slightly more breathing room.

The left picture is my intended sprite size.

The right picture is double that size, because I like to ink over sketches at double the intended size. You'll see why later.

I sketched this in three layers with tracing paper to add details on top of what I had before. Then I scanned it in on a flat-bed scanner. The colors were added in Photoshop.

To get reference material for cloth draped over boobs, let's just search for statues. I don't even need to search for breasts. Fabric and breasts have historically always been popular in stone statue carving.

Ruto was pretty busty too.
They could only spare 3 triangles for the main character's nose but the developers made sure to set aside a few DOZEN polygons for that chest!

So I think I'll try drawing horny short-stack Zelda, the way Nintendo intended!
Along with her iconic bedroom eyes.
All the girls in this game give Link that look.

Of course they completely removed all of that in the 3DS remake.

And this texture across the front. It's like her nipples are pitching tents under there. She is VERY happy to see Link!