~sketch~

i miss drawing him! i miss putting him in little outfits!

I wanted to go a bit more in-depth with this piece that I did for zukka week 2023 because i got inspired to do more insane clothing details. ID in ALT.

Ramble about the influences/inspirations below:

Design inspirations for Sokka's clothing are mainly Inuvialuit and Yup'ik, with Nenets, Tlingit, and Chukchi inspiration for the tassels, patterns, belt and beadwork. I mixed these with the ornaments canon shows us used by the Northern Water Tribe, and also in Legend of Korra. I got particularly excited about drawing from Inuvialuit sources since the tassels we see in canon look like they could be inspired by this. Going beyond canon's animation-friendly colour scheme, I drew from Nenets patterns/embroidery/sashes and Yup'ik beadwork for accent colours. I think in the future I'd like to find ways to incorporate more Tlingit-style patterns since I rarely see them in fanart (which is a shame - they're stunning), but since they tend to be very big I ultimately decided to only include them as a nod in order to keep the regalia recognisable as 'Water Tribe'. I wonder if I could start using Polynesian influences as well?

Zuko's headdress and particularly the shoulder garment and beaded embroidery draw heavily from women's clothing styles of Lê Dynasty Vietnam. The other main influence is men's royal clothing in Tang Dynasty China, and patterns worn by Mongolian Khatun. Since we have a bit more to go on in canon as to what fire nation regalia looks like, I blended that in as well. I got particularly excited about the embellishments on Lê Dynasty clothes because I could give a little nod to Zuko's dragon-fire by adding more colours to the embroidery. In the future I think I'd want to make the Mongolian influence a bit more obvious... perhaps even push the envelope by incorporating some Bashkir designs, though I'm not sure how well that will go.

Forbidden dance-party beats for banished fire-nation teens.

ID in alt.

POV: you're Sokka and you're desperately trying to get to know the cute emo linecook from the restaurant next door but whenever he's on smokebreak his greasy stoner boyfriend is also there.

more from the AU where just about everything goes wrong for @zukkaweek Day 6: Royalty. ID in ALT.

Sokka: *exists*

Zuko: *grab*

havent drawn him in a while... he is a half-feral cat to me.

Spring hunt.

i emerge from the depths of Real World Job to give you an idea dump.

ID in alt text.

Guy on fire since 5 minutes old: "Stop complaining. Being on fire is fine actually. Why don't you just set yourself on fire."

"We are fashioned creatures, but half made up."

More of the franken-verse because i keep rotating the dog metaphors... previous art 1 and art 2. I am running out of quotes.

"There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen"

I love his anime princess hair.

[ID: black on white sketch of an older Zuko, styled after the image of older gaang revealed at CinemaCon. He is grinning and flashing a peace sign. He looks head empty but very sweet. End ID]

oh 12.65 litres of blood clinging to the outside of my body, we're really in it now

when you're saving the world but you're also tragically 16 years old.

(doodles as i mentally prepare to get back into atla in time for zukka big bang. also because all of the analysis of the natla has me appreciating the OG so much.)

*keeping the head of my ex (which i killed slowly and painfully) in my secret closet for years and evil monologuing to it regularly*: I am being so Normal about this :)