Do you think any of the members of the gaang have hot takes on food?
when katara informs zuko that she simply cannot stand spicy food, zuko is like “you know, azula hates spicy food too. but she’d always eat the spiciest thing on the table anyway, just to prove a point.” and katara’s like “wow your sister’s dumb as hell” and zuko’s like “lol.......yeah.”
toph maintains that “rich people food tastes worse” and the best meal she ever had was a bunch of leftover dim sum she found in the garbage
aang’s really intent on repopularizing lychees after the war. he just thinks everyone should be eating more lychees, always
sokka’s “hot take” on food is that he has a teenage boy metabolism and if he does not shovel as much sustenance of any kind into his mouth hole as frequently as possible, he will get very cranky. fine...........crankier.
suki always carries fruits on her that are easy to peel and eat on the go, and whenever one of her warriors/friends/cranky boyfriend seems tired she immediately procures a snack, as if materialized out of thin air, at exactly the right time. it’s one of her superpowers
zuko will only drink tea if it’s been made by someone he loves. otherwise, he’s just drinking hot water with loose garbage in it, and what’s the point in that??
toph is actually the best tea-maker in the gaang. she understands the ritual, the artform, the waiting, the listening. as much as zuko tries, patience was never one of his virtues. sokka has tea-making down to a science, and katara pours love into every cup, but only toph’s tea could truly be mistaken for iroh’s. it’s a very slight difference, and only iroh can truly sense it, but he knows, and toph knows.
sokka is the first to notice that mai never actually eats. like, sure, she eats, but it’s always so slow and methodical that it seems more like a ritual, or a forced habit, than anything else. she takes a couple bites, and then she sets her food aside, mechanically, every time. but the thing about mai is, she loves food. especially “junk food,” desserts, bread, all the stuff she refuses to indulge in because whenever she tried to as a child her mother would scold her, ask her if she was trying to get fat, hmm?? sokka laments to toph and suki that they need to find a way to get mai to eat more, and so they’re always subtly inundating her with snacks, taking her out to eat, encouraging her to bake more. mai loves baking because it combines precision and artistry and eating desserts (she bakes with aang and suki a lot). eventually she starts feeling more comfortable around food. the voice in her head telling her that she’s taking up too much space is now replaced by suki peeling her a clementine.
azula would eat even more regimented and ritualistically than mai. she would only eat if she had performed perfectly than day, and when she did eat, she would single out rice by the grain. when zuko told jin that she had “quite an appetite for a girl,” it was simply because he had never known a single female human in his entire life to appear to enjoy the taste of food. part of azula’s recovery involves her learning to eat with her hands, with abandon.
whenever ty lee cooks for mai, she always tries to arrange whatever she’s made into a smiley face. and every time mai’s like “I can’t eat this. I’ll ruin your masterpiece” and ty lee’s like “if you don’t eat this whole thing so help me god I will be so hurt and offended I will have no other option but to divorce you.” and mai’s like “but we’re not married.” and ty lee’s like “DID I STUTTER!!!!!!” and then mai eats the whole thing in under a minute flat. they do this bit every time, and it never gets old.
aang and suki bond over being the only vegetarians in the gaang. after becoming a kyoshi warrior, suki manages to convince ty lee to join them. while they appreciate that katara and sokka could never actually be vegetarians, for they respect their cultural/regional diet and traditional/sacred hunting practices, toph, on the other hand, has no cultural attachment to meat, other than the fact that she simply loves steak.
when it comes to vegetarianism, zuko is torn because on one hand, the thought of killing animals horrifies him, but on the other hand, he grew up eating meat his whole life and he has no idea how to give up kebabs. yes, aang, he knows it used to be an animal, but now it’s just a lump! a very delicious lump! sokka’s like “oh so this means it’s a go on cooking the turtleducks?” and zuko knows that he’s only saying that to provoke him but. it works regardless.
katara always claims that she hates doing all the cooking, but also refuses to let anyone else try to cook when she has appointed herself head chef. she claims that the secret ingredient to making soup is waterbending, and no one else has the right touch. even aang, who is also a waterbender. sokka’s like “don’t bother arguing with her over this she has a whole complex over this and trying to unpack it would take way too long.” only like thirty years later does zuko admit that he’s always found her food....kind of bland. katara’s like “oh so now u wanna colonize my soup too, with your racist spices??? typical.”
katara hates papaya, but she dutifully ate one for breakfast anyway, because aunt wu told her to. having noticed this, aang assumed she liked papayas, and always makes sure to get some for her whenever the opportunity so arises. the gesture is so thoughtful that katara doesn’t have the heart to tell him the truth. she grows to like papaya.
here is yue with long hari down, with the compromise,
that she is bridging it!
I am not the artist for long hair. especially open long hair!
what is someone supposed to do with all the hair?!
Im not done with the ATLA fandom guys
At first I just wanted to do Zuko and Sokka but my boi Aang doesnt deserve to get left out. I think ill paint these for practice!!
If you wanna draw Water Tribe characters to look more like people from the North American tundra:
We tend to have thick, coarse hair.
The most common eye shape i've noticed with us has the lower eyelid curve much more gradually than the upper eyelid. Inner corners of the eye are often a bit lower than the outer corners and epicanthic folds are usually noticeable.
Downturned and aquiline noses are more common than you'd think. Yes, even with women. Can be rounded or pointed.
I don't know how common this is overall but i've noticed in my family the upper lip tends to be pretty thin with a prominent cupid's bow or rosebud shape, while the lower lip varies but tends to be thicker.
Toss a bit of black and white (or at least dark and light) checkered trim on the fur clothes. Fabric clothes may be trimmed with jacquard or silk ribbon, or rick-rack if you feel it doesn't look too modern.
Broad hips (yes, even for men) and shoulders (yes, even for women) are the norm. Expect a fair bit of muscle mass on the legs.
Thicker ruffs (keeps the wind and cold out) and fur trim on the gloves (keeps snow out and may be waterproof depending on the type of fur).
Babies were carried on their moms' backs underneath the clothes. There tended to be some kind of belt.
Being a bit on the chubbier side was traditionally considered attractive.
In case any of you were worried about accidental whitewashing (that tends to be the default for how to draw tutorials so I don't really blame people for thinking they're rules for drawing humans in general). I saw a post going around about not erasing Indigenous features, and it's true that we shouldn't, but not many people know what those features (and some little cultural things I thought could add to it) are because they didn't grow up with us. Of course, anyone else Inupiat, Inuit, or Yup'ik can feel free to add on or specify.
i recently found this "guide to human types" that includes sections about the inuit people as well as other indigenous people and i thought it could be relevant to this post
it seems like good resource for artists if it's accurate but as i'm not indigenous myself, i cannot say whether it is accurate or not. i would greatly appreciate if you or someone else shared their thoughts about it (only if you/they want to of course, i understand how valuable of a resource time and energy is)
This is a good jumping off point. If you want more inspiration, consider googling "lomen brothers inupiaq"
The Lomen Brothers opened a photography studio in Nome, so a lot of their subjects were the Inupiat living there, and others who'd travel (my family the King Islanders, for example, who went to Nome to restock and lived on King Island the rest of the year, before everyone got kicked off and settled on Nome for good).
Here are some of my favorite Lomen Brothers photos:
Her parka has checkered trim, as I mentioned earlier
Note that this gentleman has piercings under his lip for his laberets. This is also an example of the face and hands being much darker due to more prolonged sun exposure
There's so much personality in her expression, I wonder what she's thinking about
This guy is from King Island and he kind of looks like one of my uncles. The top of his head seems to be shaved as was the common style, and if you ask me that fur headband is quite stylish.
There are more photos like this, and while quick pointers can be incredibly helpful, it's always best to have references of your inspirations, especially when they're people.
If you recognized this drawing before you clicked the read more, you’re a real one, truly. Yes this is a redraw and I posted the og when I had like thirty followers. This was my first ATLA fan art:
From May 2020. And normally I let things sit a little longer before I redraw them, but there’s a lot of anatomical things that’s been bugging me for almost a year. What’s cool is that the redraw now looks a little more like how I had intended the old drawing to look at the time, but it was my first time drawing Azula so...
[id: Toph and Zuko back to back, both in bending forms. Toph’s hands are up as she concentrates, and Zuko glances toward the viewer, smirking slightly in confidence.]
I’ve been wanting to do a fanart of this scene from Avatar FOREVER. Zuko’s redemption arch was amazing, and I saw a lot of myself in him with his struggles for familial love. Anger used to be a huge part of my art in my teenage years, and the show perfectly conveyed the feeling of letting go of that hate.
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