This was a personal piece, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been one of my favorite games for a long time and I knew someday I'd paint Link, and here we are. One of my favorite elements of that game was the music, following Saria's mysterious song through the lost woods especially.
This isn't an exact replica of Link, I used that lovely thing called artistic freedom to paint him as a young adult, maybe after the game when he's had a chance to grow up out of "kid-link", yet he's not quite "adult-link" and therefore doesn't wear pants.
P.S. I didn't add his clunkly boots because I was sure a fairyboy would have the cutest feet ever