Waterbender

Still horrible at digital sketching, but slightly improving over Huevember. Done with Sketchbook (Android)

Be water, my friend

Time to give digital drawing another try. Avatar Korra, from the Legend of Korra. I liked more the Last Airbender, but it does not hurt that Korra is modeled after Gina Carano. Every hit looks more painful, right? :D

Aang, the last Airbender

Control

Avatar, the last Airbender. Princess Azula post-series

At the beach

All in all, "The Beach" episode in Avatar TLA was all fun, except for some introspection at the end of the episode. Zuko, Mai and Ty all admitted and accepted their issues, yet Azula refused to acknowledge them, even when they surfaced very briefly.
I did this with TRIA markers, watercolors and a slight PS retouching to correct scanned color and a small mistake (working on A3 would do that for inpatient me :P). It pretty much briefs that moment.

Family

Still working on Avatar until I stumble upon another obsession..
I had this idea a while ago and it took me some time to put it to paper. It's no big secret that Klimt is one of my fav painters and I'm particularly in love with this piece since, like, forever, so I decided to borrow the concept.


Most people who have watched the series may probably wonder why I like Azula so much, taking into account that she is like the second most evil character in the ATLA. However, in "The Beach" episode and a few more glimpses to the princess' past, we get to see that, in fact, she felt neglected by her mother as a kid, and with good reason, because lady Ursa, not only considers that something is wrong with her, but only pays attention to Zuko and even fails to say goodbye to her daughter when she leaves. What kind of mother gives up on a kid? It's always been annoying to me that parents pay extra-attention to weak kids and neglect the (apparently) strong ones, assuming that they will do well on their own. This totally reverses the logical behavior-reward concept: if you are better, you get less. However, this happens more than one would think. In the end, Azula turns to her father -who is really evil, and cruel, and somewhat a coward (he hides behind his brother, wife and daughter in three of his key appearances in the series)- because she has noone else to turn to. And, obviously, she needs to please him to be loved, so it's only natural she becomes rough herself and obsessed with perfection, and also that she despises her brother. Finally, when she finds out that there is noone on Earth she can trust (brother, friends or family), she simply loses it. That makes her a quite human character, I think.

Mmmm, too much text for a sketch, for once. I won't probably write anything in the next few pieces :P :D

The water tribe

I had already sketched both Sokka and Katara in russian painting style, but someone suggested that a tribal style would be more fit. It is, indeed, so as soon as I figured out what to do, I did this piece. It is based on tribal art from Alaska.

Suki rulz!

In fact, I think I like all Avatar tlA characters except possibly Fire Lord Ozai, he's just a megalomaniac who never really did anything to gain his position-
In any case, Suki is the kind of friend I'd like to have (even though Azula kicked her ass :P :D), so here she is: Suki in chinese painting style (I'm using this for Earth Kingdom and Ukiyo-e for the Fire Nation, I think it fits)

Toph, chinese-painting style

Toph (Avatar, the last Airbender) is my little niece's fav character, so I did this basically for her (I even put her in a dress, Luci!)

Sokka in russian style

Still working on Avatar, the Last Airbender. I do like Suki better, but Yue sort of came to mind while I was drawing this. I guess I'll have to do a Suki sketch as well!
Toph comes next!

Fire Nation Elite Team, Ukiyo-e style

Another Avatar sketch, heavily inspired on japanese Ukiyo-e art style.

Katara, russian style

This one goes to my One Niece, who wants to be like Katara ... and probably is quite a bit :)
TRIA markers and heavily inspired in a Pushkin tale illustration.

Zuko: Ukiyo-e style

Still in Avatar mode. I need to switch to other characters, though, but I like red so much... :P

Azula: Ukiyo-e style

I got new TRIA markers recently and, finally (hey Inma! I did it!), I managed to spare some time to try them. A japanese like sketch with Azula, from AtLA, came to my mind ...

Best friends forever

This one is dedicated to my cousin, who was a bit like this when we were kids. And, of course, I don't like to be touched :P

Anyway, I think this pretty much says everyhing :D:D:D

Air vs Fire

... or Aang vs Zuko, in Avatar, the last Airbender wonderful TV series.

Fire Nation Elite Team

Because that's what friends are for (?)
From Avatar, TLA, done with Staedler liner and TRIA markers.

A is for Azula

I had this idea on summer and started working on it. It's a classic, but here is my ABC batch (still working. I'm at L now)

Ty Lee vs Azula

Ty Lee is an acrobat, right? So she should be able to do all those back flips from kunf-fu flicks in a blink :)

The Fire Princess