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.

Broooooooooi I can't stop I can't fucjubg stoppppp

‘Zoola

There's this one dialect of English where they call football "soccer", and it made me think of Sokka from Avatar: the Last Airbender, and you know how I'm about stupid puns

I think constantly making studies after candid photos of various athletes in action (esp footballers, as they're easy to come across) to get used to drawing dynamic poses is slowly starting to pay off...

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Will never forget when I told my mom I was working with Jennie Kwan from Avatar and she thought I was running an event with "one of the blue people".

A tale of Ba Sing Se.

my favourite chaotic siblings

rewatching atla after like 10 years and zuko is so insanely pitiful

I think they would've been friends

Tough.

continuing my trend of drawing sleeping zuko for my birthday [ids in alt]

bonus sketches below the cut bc i thought they were funny--

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

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Image description: Three panel comic, zuko and katara are sitting across from each other drinking tea. First panel, katara looks concerned and zuko looks relaxed and jovial. Second panel, katara is smiling teasingly as she replies to zuko, and zuko looks a bit grumpy at the jab. Third panel, katara is holding the teacup closer to her body, laughing softly at Zuko's remark. Zuko looks a bit put down on, but still in good humor, and clearly joking.

Image text:

Zuko: Want some tea?

Katara: Sure! Oh, uh... did you brew this? Is this-- are you punishing me?

Zuko: ... I'll have you know, it's not every day the Fire Lord serves his guest tea that he's made himself.

Katara: mm probs cuz it sucks

Zuko: ...

Zuko: ... h-okay, clearly I am being told to fuck off...

Katara: -snorts-

And I'll never stop!! 17 years on this goddamn ship and counting. Best love story never told.

On my recent cabbage merchant art someone commented on this man’s sheer resilience and how he was the Sisyphus of ATLA and that inspired me.

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Bitches when two different characters from two different pieces of media have the same name:

(It’s me, I’m the bitches)

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Sokka studies :D