Keep Holding On

I finally finished this pic!

It wasn't really the work, it was more of the mood...the emotion to put into it. Well, I had that emotion, and so I started up the Avril Lavigne playlist and began working....it went through one sit-down session (about an hour and ten minutes) and well into another before I finally finished touching it up--and that was just the touch-up session!

Before I say anything else, though, GAZILLION thanks to for her INCREDIBLE advice on this piece--it turned out a lot better than I'd thought. She gave me so, so much help with this...I hope the arm turned out all right!

Basically, this image is my interpretation of the scene right after Katara escapes with Aang, but before they reach Appa--I wanted to give the impression of her completely blasting her way through the ceiling...and the closest thing to what she would be doing would be screaming. If I could give it more life, complete with sound, she would be giving a shriek of grief, frustration, and any other emotion you choose. She's using her last vestiges of strength.

Apart from her edits to my original drawing, no reference was used, really. Maybe a little bit, but this is pretty much all my drawing and Phee's edits. The good parts are probably hers... I don't think I did Aang's head quite right, but you can tell it's him. The colors came from screencaps....

My main concern with this is that I feel that the lighting takes away from the picture by adding too much to it--it's spectacular, and it really helped some of my weaker points, but I still feel kind of cheated. The lighting took me only a few minutes, and it's easily the first thing to note about the image. Sigh....ah, well, it looks good to me.

I drew the pic by hand....her left arm is digitally drawn, and I think Aang's head is, too....the watermark is mine....DO NOT STEAL THIS IMAGE, I PUT HARD WORK AND HEART INTO THIS.

Colored using MS Paint. The light is thanks to OpenCanvas.

I DO NOT OWN THESE CHARACTERS. Viacom, Nickelodeon, Mike, Bryan, and anyone else who works on Avatar: The Last Airbender does.
The IMAGE IS MINE. Again, do not steal. I'm not really worried about it, but you never know....

I also made a music vid to the song: [link] It's one of my best, so please, view that, too. It goes with the artwork....

At least some good came out of Eragon....

FULL VIEW, PLEASE. Comments would be nice, as well, along with critique...I might choose to redo it.

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I revised it.

Thanks to and for their critique! I think it looks much better now...the light's not as dramatic as before, but I kind of like it like that. If the lighting needs work, I can do that.

The other girls so far:

Toph: [link]
Jin: [link]
Mai's mom: [link]
Mai: [link]
Koko: [link]