Coloring Commission - Camp Woody On Call

This is a commission made to me by DaCommissioner of a lineart that CallMePo had done.

Original seen here: Korra Katara Beta Squad
When I saw it and read what DaCommissioner wanted me to do with it, I knew that I really had my work cut out for me.  For one, the background that was asked for was to be an alleyway at night.  But the biggest challenge that I saw was in the holographic displays that Katara and Korra had.   In my mind I knew that they had to have a glowing quality to it like any kind of computer screen.  But because I didn’t have the font or any way to find out what the font was, I tried a technique of my own on it.   The technique I had in mind was to use the font in the upper corners, copy them and try to manipulate them so that they fit behind the ones in the holographic displays.  Then changing their colors to something bright and adding an outer glow effect would give the desired visual aspect that I had in mind.

Unfortunately, that part didn’t pan out as well as I had hoped.  So, I reverted back to my old polygon lasso tool that I used for everything else and simply clicked and selected around the white spaces between the black circle and the text itself.   Then I gave it the bright color and outer glow and that seemed to work as I had originally intended.

Compared to that, the work on the background was easy.  All I did was lay down some brick colors, and use a “star brush” and set my scattering pretty far apart and did some splattering to give it the brick textured look.  The same was done with the mortar part of the bricks.

Finally I did a black and a dark blue overlay to give it a nighttime appearance.  However I did like how the daytime one came out so I’m posting that one as well. 

And I’m certainly glad that DaCommissioner enjoyed it as much as I did in the challenge of it.

© Katara - Avatar the Last Airbender - Nickelodeon

© Korra - Avatar: THe Legend of Korra - Nickelodeon

Zimmay - Kataang: Love is Eternal

This is my colored version of Zimmay Kataan Kiss Lineart

Avatar: That Last Airbender © Nickelodeon

Katara and Toph in Love

This piece is something that I did for Avatar-fan’s Non-Cannon Contest.  The idea behind the contest is to make artwork of non-cannon pairings.

Sorry Zutarian and Kataang fans but those pairings are ruled out as spelled out in the rules of the contest.

As far as the technical aspects of this particular piece, I used some of the commission pieces done for me by DarkDP who did a few for the Avatar series at my request.  Using the skin-tones that he used, I applied them to this piece, which is why the skin-tones of Katara and Toph look a little different (for those of you who have been following my work closely).

For the pose, it was something that I decided to experiment with, so I needed a pose where two people are in a tender moment of intimacy that is non-sexual in anyway.  So, I found a picture from an anime series called “Glamour” and using that pose I set about my task of making it for Toph and Katara.

Also if you look closely you’ll see that Toph is wearing a Watertribe necklace like Katara’s.  This is from an earlier work I did called KaToph Necklace.  Within the pendant itself are the flat lines and coin symbols of the Earth Kingdom, while there are the rolling waves of the Water Tribe.   Put that on a green collar and there you have a necklace that Katara would give to Toph.

As for the time that it took to make this, I think the drawing by hand took about 2 hours, the outlining in Photoshop took about 2 ½, and the final coloring took about 8 hours.   So it was a full 12 ½ hour project.

© Katara and Toph Befong - Avatar the Last Airbender – Nickelodeon – Michael DiMartino and Tim Hedrick

Kataang Necklace

Just like the Tokka necklace that I designed, I wanted to design a similar betrothal necklace for Katara and Aang.

The way I designed it in my head is that it had to be a different color from Katara’s and it had to reflect a fusion of the Water Tribe and Air Nomads.

So I used the colors of the air nomads - yellow and orange.

And the basic design of a water tribe necklace.

Though I fused the symbols - the waves and the air swirls.

© Avatar the Last Airbender - Katara and Aang - Nickelodeon