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comradekatara · 21 hours

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Genuinely asking—what changes would you make to the adult gaang designs? :)

this is such a fun question thank u for enabling me. i mean i draw them as adults sometimes so also check out my /oldergaang tag if u want visuals (altho i also change my designs a lot because my art is nothing if not inconsistent) but if i was just going with like standard character designs like if i could redesign that hideous “old friends” poster for example…

aang: get rid of that fucking. chinstrap. don’t give him white man features because what the hell is that. and let him wear his off the shoulder monk robes from book 3 because he was slaying with that fit. actually the way aang is drawn in imbalance is basically perfect i would retain that design into adulthood. thank u peter wartman for all that u do….

katara: i don’t mind the older katara design (from the little we see of it) but it’s also not nearly as cunty and slayful as i would like. katara is genuinely interested in fashion and loves experimenting with clothes and hair and makeup, i refuse to believe that as she ages and has more resources to tailor her style to her own personal tastes she wouldn’t get a little funky with it. like she kind of just looks boring and uninspired in her older design, and that’s unacceptable to me because she should be hot. adult katara should be the hottest woman you have ever seen in your life. and she should be buff, also. shredded, even.

toph: any signifiers of copness are obviously unacceptable to me. but even more that than, it’s very important to me that older toph is distinctly butch. i think she would cut her hair the second she realizes that there is no reconciliation to be found with her parents and that there is no reason to adhere to those confucian values. and she would wear a lot of sleeveless outfits (sort of like the shirt korra wears in “korra alone”) to show off her biceps and also space bracelet (spacelet) that is her prized possession forever. and she’s just kind of a hot hippie butch legend . period.

zuko: in the old friends poster he literally looks like a lizard so just like. no. wtf. and i like his long hair in theory but i don’t like that it’s styled after ozai and not ursa, i think his hair would be shwoopier and frame his face more. and his robes should be less spiky and militaristic and more designed for comfort because that’s what makes him feel most like his true authentic self and he deserves that. also weird for a guy who is trying to demilitarize the fire nation to wear an armor-adjacent type of outfit. so mainly he’d just look softer and more like his mom.

sokka: i hate buff goatee whitewashed sokka that is some kind of demon. lok did so little with him and yet said so much (all of it egregiously wrong, ofc). sokka would be fairly tall (although not as tall as aang) and have defined muscle but in a sinewy, lanky way. and despite always having enough to eat he’d still look somewhat malnourished just because he’s constantly overworked and exhausted and never takes care of himself. and his ponytail would be longer but he’d still shave the sides. and the older he gets the darker his clothes get until he basically just wears black all the time because at some point he realizes that it’s more advantageous to remain culturally ambiguous if he’s gonna be a cosmopolitan. and he wears glasses (which were a gift from kuei). and sometimes he uses a cane because he didn’t sufficiently take care of his broken leg after the war ended and now he’s paying the price for it. and his cane has a blade inside too, but he rarely ever even pulls out the blade because he can incapacitate someone with just a wooden stick anyway. so he looks like if a nerd was a shadow was about to collapse at any given moment was secretly ruling the entire world. and he’s not in any sort of front-facing position of power whatsoever but he’s actually pulling all the strings from behind the scenes, and it’s exhausting. his eyebags are visible from outer space.

suki: i don’t even think there is a “canon” adult suki character design besides her in her kyoshi warrior armor and makeup but to me casual suki just starts dressing more like sokka. like the loose baggy sleeveless shirts (except in a lighter shade of blue bc kyoshi island colors) and tight pants and boots. it’s a very dykey look already and they’re basically girlfriend twins so their styles would merge even more than it already has within the show itself. like sometimes people think that sokka and suki are siblings because they dress so similarly and give off such a similar vibe and they’re just like “but we’re literally different ethnicities??? and also we are currently making out????”

okay bonus round bc i can’t just neglect them

azula: she cuts her hair really short and as an adult leaves it to shoulder length for the most part because that’s more comfortable for her. like zuko, she also starts dressing for comfort, and for a period in her late teens stops wearing makeup altogether. she gets back into wearing makeup as an adult, but she stops caring about whether or not she leaves the house with lipstick on, and it becomes more about the process for her than the result. she’s comfy and cute and dykey.

mai: sokka is her lesbian style icon so after her first haircut that was inspired by toph’s haircut to piss off her parents, she gets an undercut and starts wearing her hair in a ponytail like sokka. as she gets older she also gets more confident in her body and doesn’t feel like she needs to wear baggy long-sleeved clothing at all times or she’ll die. and she isn’t rail thin as an adult either because she starts letting herself eat more than a single grain of rice at a time. also, she gets a sword.

ty lee: she becomes a kyoshi warrior so she starts incorporating more blues and greens into her wardrobe, but also more oranges and yellows after she embraces her air nomad heritage. and she just dresses very colorfully and has a vast rotation of different cute little outfits. and i think she’d also experiment with different hairstyles once she has the freedom to define herself outside of the aesthetics expected of her. she looks beautiful always

haru: he finally shaves that thang

#shadowoftheraven15 #asks #the gaang and #postwargaang #oldergaang

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comradekatara · 4 months

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it's national draw your sibling day

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #sokka #katara&sokka #art #mart #oldergaang #i like to think they get less antagonistic once theyre in their twenties #i also firmly believe w every fibre of my soul that sokka improves his art #(and im coming for anyone who says otherwise in the comments of this post with hammers. jsyk)#also drawing w charcoal is way easier than ink painting. so maybe he realizes that too #also apologies if i butchered the spelling of katara's name i was just working w the wiki but . if its bad u can say its intentional #bc sokka is stupid or whatever idk 😭#anyway. this ACTUALLY started bc i was thinking about how we never actually see katara draw #but i just KNOW that she would have the most anime art style #dont ask me how i know these things ok i just do #so this whole thing was just an excuse to showcase that . lmao #i worked so hard on this tho. pls clap

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comradekatara · 11 months

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omg it’s the chief of the southern water tribe, the best waterbender in the world, i think her name is uhhhhhhh…… cataracts?????

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #oldergaang #art #mart #i like using the gouache brush; using this color palette; drawing my number one girl #you know how it is

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comradekatara · 3 months

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time’s arrow

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #oldergaang #art #mart #to live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing #mans misfortune is that he was once a child #teen heartthrob aangy #etc etc

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comradekatara · 4 months

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always thinking about older katara with korra's muscles...

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #oldergaang #art #mart #i dont acutally have anything to say here. you all get it

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comradekatara · 3 months

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this is our firelord and his senior advisor dawg we’re all gonna die 😭😭😭

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #sokka #zuko #zukka #sokkaxzuko #postwargaang #oldergaang #art #mart #posting zukka in a deeper more profound way than you ever could #notice how i say SENIOR ADVISOR and not AMBASSADOR #anyway. sorry . i relapsed

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comradekatara · 4 months

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not to be an obnoxious cottagecore lesbian but i think mai and ty lee should get a little house on kyoshi island together (also some extra funky little lighting variations bc i couldn't make up my mind)

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #mailee #mai #ty lee #maixtylee #art #mart #oldergaang #or maybe #postwargaang #you know what. ill tag both #it's the future they deserve #i dont even have pinterest but i love scrolling it for like. cute dykey pose and outfit refs #that i can then draw characters wearing and doing #it's one of my top 5 methods of mindless procrastination #if you recognize the original image you'll know that i stuck to all the details really closely. simply because it is already a perfect imag #i got my watermelon seed on my face and it's time to fucking party

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comradekatara · 11 months

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all my art for @zukkaweek; prompts are "turtleduck pond" (i think sokka would eat a turtleduck sorry), "modern au" (zuko would have good fashion sense but not dress remotely fashionably and i will die on this hill. also the glasses sokka hill.), "rivals" (obviously azula has gotta be there bc she and sokka are actual rivals. and zuko has died. badly), "touch" (sleepover with the bestie!! <3 <3), "royalty" (i am not a filthy monarchist but i did enjoy drawing fancy clothes! and that's as far as i'm taking that prompt thank you very much), and of course "sun and moon" (i hate romantic sun and moon motifs they are very stupid to me as a twenty first century common sense having person who knows that they are not equivalent bodies! but zuko is not a common sense having person so). these were fun to draw :)