FLAMING FIRE FLAKES CHALLENGE.

I rewatched the show, it's still so so good ♡

post-lecture noodles with the boys ✌️

Prints <3

the gaang's back 🥹💜

If you think firebenders wouldn’t fight using fireswords 

then I request you reconsider this dope idea

Also, I made something…

Figured that since Ozai looked so young in his portrait, that must mean it was made shortly after his coronation, or thereabouts, so applying that logic here, ZuZu stills looks young and handsome. The dragons, I know, that event was meant to be kept secret, but counter argument, this painting doesn’t necessarily say, “Hey, Dragons are still alive—here’s a map!” It’s just a bit of artsy-fartsy majestic embellishment. Also, I feel like Zuko might want to rebrand the Fire Nation, just a little, you know, after the 100 year war. So instead of just pure fire iconography, he brings things back to their roots, aka, the dragon. More dragon iconography!!! In this portrait, Zuko isn’t the one firebending, it’s the dragons, the first Firebenders. And in the meantime, he’s holding out a White Lotus. Now, I tried to use my Google Fu to find out if there was ever any symbol in Japan or Korea or China that meant “peace,” but my search results came up empty, so I figured that perhaps the lotus could become their version of, say, the olive branch. A discreet and tasteful way to include such a major part of the final battle while having a double meaning. Also, take note of the fact that he’s holding it with BOTH hands. In Japan, when one offers a gift, you always do so with both hands. And while I know it may look a little strange, Zuko towering over his friends—bro—this was always going to be Zuko’s Firelord portrait. He was always going to be the main focus. He just wanted to also include his friends and commemorate the day the war finally ended/his coronation. Anyway, that’s all for now… hope that wasn’t too much… and if anyone has any ideas for how to make it even better, pls let me know.

I finally drew all the benders!! Now just Sokka left to complete team avatar!

Water, Earth, Fire, Air... AND BOOMERANG!! tsuyonpu market reopens tomorrow!! And this will be a brand new special print I'll have available!! I'm so excited, drawing this was so challenging but also fun!

The characters of Avatar the last airbender at the series premiere

can you believe I'm just now watching this masterpiece

My piece for a new Avatar zine! (Young adult version of the team based on a former screenshot)

It's been a while since I last drew them XD

Why are they fighting? There are no wrong answers.

me whenever suki is left out of the gaang official art

Everyone rags on Korra's team avatar for not being "close"

but being an adult in their early 20's myself, they seem entirely accurate for a group of friends trying to balance their work lives with jobs and rent to pay.

Aangs group were kids, with adults often paying for them in one way or another (Or Toph scamming people). Plus, they had a singular, unifying, and constant goal for the runtime of that show, they were with each other, traveling for the entire show.

But Korra's villain's were months, sometimes years, apart from each other. In-between they have lives, jobs, relationships. And we see the results in the show.

We see Mako go through an entire career progression from Criminal -> Pro-Bender -> Police -> Body guard. But the kicker is, Aangs team goes through something similar as they age. We see some of it in the comics. From all accounts, they remain close friends, but they all split off and do their own thing, have their own career's, start families, their future looks a lot like what Korra's team avatar looks like, only it's after the show, not during.

can’t believe sokka spent 3 seasons telling dad-jokes, likes expensive atlases, viscerally hates getting sidetracked on road trips, thinks he’s the greatest detective, carries a beard with him as a disguise, pretends to not like physical affection but secretly loves it (see group hug in the earth king), is obsessed with meat, is constantly sarcastic and complaining, is overprotective of his sister, LITERALLY HAD A WHOLE ARC ABOUT WANTING TO MAKE HIS DAD PROUD AND ENDED UP LEADING THE INVASION FOR HIM, and y’all still have the audacity to call ZUKO the Dad Friend

gaang + mai, ty lee, yue, and jet ref sheet with notes FINALLY. this took me a bit but i had literally sooo much fun fleshing out all these weirdos!!!!!! fn royal family ref sheet (azula and zuko are in that one) can be found here

listen i love firelord!zuko as much as the next guy* but yk what i love even more?

zuko getting to be a teenager and not having to rule a country that literally just ended a 100-year long genocidal war with no actual political training or experience and a shitload of trauma

like just have iroh rule for five years at least before shoving the responsibility onto him. ideally zuko wouldn’t have to rule at all because clearly that was never something he wanted, but you’d have to rehabilitate azula first

azula was definitely actually trained for the role anyway, cuz ozai obviously never planned to make zuko fire lord. she’s a natural leader and actually wants to be fire lord

yes i’m still mad they made 17 y/o zuko firelord, no i will never stop being mad about it

*yeah this is a lie i do not love firelord!zuko i think it’s a terrible ending for him. free my boy