Destructive Little Pieces

Hi, I'm Hayley Wong (aka Hayley Foster) Storyboard Artist - Disney TVA | WB | Netflix DO NOT REPOST or use any of my art without permission! I do not take commissions. IG & Twitter: hayleynwong

[hayleynwong]

The No "I Love You" Animatic In case Tumblr can’t play the video, here’s the Vimeo Link

Link to the AO3 collection So, when @fictionissocialinquiry laid out this challenge, it was mainly for writers; but she included some extra prompts therein, and one was a line from Hozier’s “Shrike”.

I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted This led me to listen to “Shrike” on repeat while I feverishly started doodling the thumbnails for the animatic I got in my head (so I hope that some of that emotion from Hozier’s amazing song comes through in the final board, ‘cause I listened to it. A. Lot.). While I think it’s a bit easier for drawings to express “I love you” without any words needed at all. I wanted to try and approach the task by thinking of ways one can confess that they love someone through acts of service and tenderness versus super obvious displays of love, I guess. It came out with a sort of courtly love-ish vibe that I really ended up liking. (Though I suppose reciprocation makes it not courtly love ANYWHO…)

I’m in an Ambassador Katara/Fire Lord Zuko state of mind! I just love any love story with them in these roles. There are so many different ways to play with the set up of them as Ambassador and Fire Lord. In this one, I kind of picture that they haven’t gotten together yet (this is divergent from whatever I did in the Reunion animatics; this is it’s own thing). Perhaps they are on the precipice of realizing they want to be together... I don’t know; it’s open to interpretation. XD but what I hope I portrayed clearly is how one can show that they love another. u.u

Music: The Princess Pleads for Wallace’s Life - Braveheart: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Please no reposting. (And while I don’t mind screenshots being posted so long as you credit me with a link to either the tumblr post or the Vimeo link, please don’t post like a bunch of frames, and there should be no money being made off of it; this is a purely not-for-profit sort of thing. These were for fun, and I enjoy people liking them one so much. However, the screenshot rule ONLY applies to the animatics, but it really is an honor system here, guys, please be judicious with how many you take.)

[favlie]

debriefing after the movie events

-- you look at me in the eyes and tell me they dont have a thing. also, it's been a hot moment since i last drew anything remotely close to anime style. and then this movie happened. <sighs> oh, zuko and katara... what i wont do for you...

@hayleynwong round 2 you said? also tried to put more effort this time. you're rising the bar, my friend! (putting more efforted it included having to go through the frames of the movie. which also included having to see [redacted]. btw i still cant believe they had the audacity to remove his scar. what are you scared of, br*ke?)

[hayleynwong]

She’s raising the bar… it’s a zutara arms race… this will not go unanswered. (It may take me a year lol but I will get you back @favlie )

[hayleynwong]

Let me live in my delusions! lol

@favlie round 2 for you :) I wanted to put in a little more effort.

Anyway, I haven’t been as active on here because I’ve had a couple kids and worked in between them, so drawing in my free time was nonexistent. But canon events I am not into are enough to make me rise from the grave… if only for a bit. I’m a bit rusty and am drawing whilst underneath a sleeping baby, so forgive me.

[hayleynwong]

"I'll never forget what you did for me..."

@favlie No time to draw, but this is for you! I do like Katara's clothes in the new movie screencaps I've seen. I have not seen the movie because I'd never watch a leak, but a screencap or two o.o But yeah, Lightning scar emotions have consumed me.

[hayleynwong]

Super bummed I missed another Zutara week, but boy, does a toddler keep a person busy. ^^; My kid has me revising my initial Zuko and Katara have three kids idea, maybe one is enough haha Anywho, hope everyone is doing well.

[hayleynwong]

Part 4/4 of some samples of my boards from The Owl House s3e1 “Thanks to Them”

The joy I got to just go ham on the pictures in Willow’s scrapbook radiated off me haha, I felt like even if only one of my doodle ideas made it through, I’d be so happy! To my surprise a fair amount made it in! Like, even my little Hocus Pocus reference haha And it didn’t make it into the final version, but I TRIED to justify the milkshake date and Luz’s lactose intolerance. When I made that fanart I didn’t know she was lactose intolerant, guys! Give me a break ToT so let’s just assume they’re soy milkshakes or something vegan. lol

Please, please, please do not repost/trace/recolor my boards please.

[hayleynwong]

Part 3/4 of some samples of my boards from The Owl House s3e1 “Thanks to Them”

I wish I had the energy to export the tracking shot through the window of Luz exiting the house and then panning up to the sky as a gif, but postpartum is kicking my butt and my computer is chugging trying to do it, so some stills it is! ToT I was pretty proud of the movement of that shot though and so honored it stayed in to the final version basically!  Then I had one more sequence this episode where they discover the secret map! So fun to get to do work with Human vee and the kids in their casual clothes. n.n

Please, please, please do not repost/trace/recolor my boards please.

[hayleynwong]

Part 2/4 of some samples of my boards from The Owl House s3e1 “Thanks to Them”

It was SUCH an honor to get to do the opening montage of season 3. I couldn’t believe I got to do one of the first passes at summing up the summer happenings with the Owl House gang. I love these characters especially getting to do shippy stuff with them (even if it’s highly interpretable XD) It’s like my dream. I’m a shipper fanartist at heart. lol

Please, please, please do not repost/trace/recolor my boards please.

[hayleynwong]

Part 1/4 of some samples of my boards from The Owl House s3e1 “Thanks to Them”

It was SUCH an honor to get to do the opening montage of season 3. I couldn’t believe I got to do one of the first passes at summing up the summer happenings with the Owl House gang. I love these characters especially getting to do shippy stuff with them (even if it’s highly interpretable XD) It’s like my dream. I’m a shipper fanartist at heart. lol

Please, please, please do not repost/trace/recolor my boards please.

[hayleynwong]

Malted Milkshakes

Caveat to this is while I may be a storyboard artist for The Owl House, I literally have no idea where the story is going; I am not a writer! So do not read into this at all. It’s just a drawing. Just wanted to make a fanart for the show I work on, because you can work on something and simultaneously be a fan XD It’s a weird sensation, honestly. But yeah, just wanted to draw these cute characters in a vintage-y vibe. Bask in my lack of a background… bask in it. Please do not repost.

[optionalgs]

IT HAPPENED

[hayleynwong]

☺️

[hayleynwong]

Zutara Week 2022 Day 1: Tradition

Unfortunately this is the only prompt I was able to get done this year. I really wish I had been able to do them all (it’s tragic because I even have some roughs for mini animatics for almost every day ToT who knows maybe I’ll finish them one of these days), but alas I ran out of time and energy just getting off of a project and being in my 9th month of pregnancy. But hey wouldn’t it be fun if my baby was born during this year’s Zutara Week. lol Anywho, just a very short little mini-animatic for this prompt.

Dedicated to the ZDAS, you all are still very much in my thoughts. n.n

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[zutaraweek]

Zutara Week 2022 Dates + Prompts

Thank you so much for your patience and sweet concerned messages. The wait is over, here are our dates and prompts for the 15th Annual Zutara Week!

✨September 18th - September 24th✨

Day 1 - Tradition

Day 2 - Familiar

Day 3 - Hands

Day 4 - Meeting

Day 5 - Album

Day 6 - Closeness

Day 7 - Ink

🎉 this will be the first Zutara Week held in the fall! I can't wait to see what you all share in September 🔥

[hayleynwong]

❤️‍🔥

[perfectlypanda]

Important ZK Week 2022 Update!

The original mod for @zutaraweek​ has resurfaced on Twitter to confirm that they are running the even this year! Yay!

I had shared the dates and prompts we have come up with them, but I have no idea if they’ll want to adopt them or not. If you had started planning based on them, I’d suggest pausing (unless you just want to continue just because you were inspired by a prompt, then go for it!). I’ll be adding a disclaimer to those posts to make sure people are aware that they’re no longer official. 

Thanks to everyone who was supportive as we tried to get backup plans made, and I’m very excited that we can look forward to @zutaraweek​’s 15th anniversary!

[hayleynwong]

Ah! Good to know!

[perfectlypanda]

Zutara Week 2022 Proposed Dates and Prompts

People responded positively to the idea of wanting to make sure that Zutara Week continued this year, so to keep things moving along I propose the following dates and prompts:

*If the original moderator for @zutaraweek​ decides they are interested in running it again this year, then we can just disregard these dates and prompts and use the ones they create instead.*

Date: August 1 - August 7 (These dates keep the event in line with previous years, and gives everyone a month to prepare. Plus, as a bonus, August 1 is a Monday so it’ll be easy to remember which day each prompt is).

Prompts: Since we are short on time if we want to be able to hold this event when it’s traditionally held, I made a prompt list instead of trying to poll everyone for suggestions. I pulled all the words from lists 2008 - 2021 so I could avoid repeats, and tried to choose prompts that were general enough to let everyone be creative.

Day 1 - celebration

Day 2 - confessions

day 3 - rain

day 4 - legends

day 5 - water lilies/ fire lilies

day 6 - up all night

day 7 - destiny

Please let me know your thoughts! Do you think the dates work? Do you think the prompts look okay? I don’t want to push anything if it isn’t what people want, but I also do want to get things moving ASAP so that people have time to draw/ write/ create. If we can finalize the dates and prompts then we can keep working to figure out the other details (moderators, etc.) after. 

[hayleynwong]

Aw so sad to hear about the Zutara Week organizer from the past several years possibly sitting out this year due to the fallout from last year. :< I feel like, in full good faith, they really tried and I don’t know... Zutara was such a saving grace personally in 2020, and I made such good friends... it’d just be so sad if it wasn’t done this year ToT All props to the previous years for all the hard work. For perfectly panda’s efforts, I think these prompts are pretty cute and open to interpretation! However Zutara Week shakes out this year, appreciate Soopersara and Perfectlypanda’s efforts to keep this little fandom tradition going.

[hayleynwong]

Part 3/3 of some samples of my boards from The Owl House s2e19 “O Titan, Where Art Thou”

Wah, my last episode of season 2 I worked on (except for some very minor clean up I helped with on a tiny part of the finale which was an honor to get to clean up Bo’s roughs etc). Heartbreaking to have to do a chunk of the Luz and Eda turmoil. ToT

Please, please, please do not repost/trace/recolor my boards please.

[hayleynwong]

Part 2/3 of some samples of my boards from The Owl House s2e19 “O Titan, Where Art Thou”

Wah, my last episode of season 2 I worked on (except for some very minor clean up I helped with on a tiny part of the finale which was an honor to get to clean up Bo’s roughs etc). Heartbreaking to have to do a chunk of the Luz and Eda turmoil. ToT

The lighting was manifested by Dana. I hadn’t thought to do it because this was supposedly underground and as a simpleton, was like “where would the light be coming from even” but this is why I love to work for amazing people because Dana always has such great ideas that just push your work to the next level! 

Please, please, please do not repost/trace/recolor my boards please.

[hayleynwong]

Part 1/3 of some samples of my boards from The Owl House s2e19 “O Titan, Where Art Thou” 

Wah, my last episode of season 2 I worked on (except for some very minor clean up I helped with on a tiny part of the finale which was an honor to get to clean up Bo’s roughs etc). Heartbreaking to have to do a chunk of the Luz and Eda turmoil. ToT

Please, please, please do not repost/trace/recolor my boards please.