I Found The Very First Avatar Fanart I Ever Made

I found the very first Avatar fanart I ever made

i made these doodles back when I was just a baby digital artist, I think I actually made this before the movie even came out. I'd watched the trailers a bunch of times and seen all the youtube videos explaining who the new characters were and I was already attached to them before I even saw the movie. You can tell I already knew Spider was gonna be my favorite ha ha, even before I watched way of water I LOVED the concept of a human raised by an alien species who tries to keep up with them despite being smaller and weaker.

Looking at my old art makes me cringe a little bit but it's also a reminder of how far I've come. Now, 1 & 1/2 years of hard work and practice later, I can create art that looks like this:

Question for Avatar fans: How would you react if you woke up in an Avatar body?

Honestly, I think the thing that would stick out the most to me would be having a tail. I just know my dumb ass would panic thinking a bug was touching my leg when it was really just my own tail 😭 I'd probably keep forgetting it's there and slam it in doors when I close them behind me. Maybe that's why the Na'vi don't use doors.

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Headcanons about how the Avatar characters sing

Neytiri: we all heard her singing her songcord in A2. Ninat may be the best singer, but if something happens to her, we all know who the new best singer will be. Her voice is beautiful on its own, but she loves to sing with her family and the rest of her clan.

Jake: I love him, but this man cannot sing. He tries his best, but it always sounds like a dying titanothere. Whenever the olo'eyktan and tsahik have to lead the clan in a traditional song, he lets Neytiri take the wheel.

Neteyam: he takes after his momma 💙 he has a beautiful singing voice, but even though he's so talented he never tries to take the spotlight and prefers to sing in a group.

Kiri: she's a little insecure about her oddly mature-sounding voice. She has trouble staying in tune and staying on beat whenever she sings in a group, so she normally keeps her voice soft during clan songs, but sometimes, when she's all alone in the forest, she'll sing a song that's all her own. Spider is one of the few people who's ever caught her singing by herself and she made him promise not to tell anyone, though Spider thought it was the most beautiful thing he'd ever heard.

Lo'ak: he takes after his dad. He can't carry a tune to save his life, and he's so jealous of Neteyam's voice. He's convinced Neteyam sings extra loud when they're together just to rub it in his face. But even though he can't carry a tune, he has a fantastic sense of rhythm. If he would stop trying to copy Neteyam and focused on his own talent, he would be a great drummer for clan songs.

Spider: Once when he was a kid getting tutored in "boring human crap" by Norm and Max, he made up a song to remember the Pythagorean Theorem, (please click the link if you haven't heard the Jack Champion pythagorean theorem song, it's so goofy) and he drove all the adults crazy singing it. Ever since then, he's loved singing, and he has a nice voice too, but there's just one problem. White boy got no rhythm 😔. He couldn't stay on beat if his life depended on it, but he makes up for it with enthusiasm.

Tuk: she loves to sing just like Neytiri, and she'll make up songs when she's playing or learning new skills. She hasn't quite grown into her voice yet, but she'll probably sound just as beautiful as her momma when she grows up.

Tonowari and Ronal: the only time they sing is when they're together, leading the clan through ceremonial songs. Even though they don't sing very often, their voices compliment each other wonderfully.

Aonung: He's going through a phase where he's Too Cool (TM) to sing 😎... until Ronal smacks him upside the head for not participating in clan song rituals.

Tsireya: she has a very sweet voice, but it's so soft it can easily get drowned out when she's singing in a group. Her true passion is dancing, and she would much rather dance than sing during clan celebrations.

Rotxo: he's a little shy about singing, but he has a decent voice. He also prefers dancing.

Quaritch: you wouldn't know it, but he actually does enjoy singing and he's not half bad at it. He's got a deep, kinda raspy singing voice that's good for classic country songs. He only sings when he's really relaxed and happy though, so most people have never heard it. Spider thought he was hallucinating the first time Quaritch started singing Johnny Cash songs while they were flying alone on Cupcake. At one point when it was just the two of them, Quaritch sang "A Boy Named Sue" but changed it to "A Boy Named Miles" and Spider couldn't tell if he was making fun of him or not. Spider liked the part of the song where the boy beat up his deadbeat dad though.

Wainfleet: He screams Lynyrd Skynyrd whenever he flies on his ikran 🎶 FLYYYYYYY FREEEEEEEE BIRDDDD YEAHAHH *sick guitar solo*🎶

Even more old avatar art I never posted. I think I was supposed to do one of Jake and Tonowari wearing dad grill outfits but I never got around to it lol

nah cause like you dont get it!!!! the sully kids and spider are a unit!!! they're puzzle pieces that fit together perfectly. the very definition of "the gang is what i trust"!!! they're together their whole lives and then spider gets taken and all of a sudden the puzzle is in disarray. kiri's so spacey cause she doesn't have spider to bring her back down to pandora. lo'ak's acting out cause he doesn't have his usual partner-in-crime/fellow outcast to make light mischief with. neteyam is like two seconds away from a heart attack/stroke the whole movie because the other kid he used to parent his siblings with for the past like decade is gone!!! and spider on the other hand? is completely alone. at least the other four have each other. all spider has is his alien racist, genocidal, imperialist dad dragging him on the world's worst war crime road trip. there's no kiri to get him out of his head. there's no lo'ak to to be outcasts with. there's no neteyam to have a quiet reassurance that they're in this together with. there's just him and his stupid, fucking mind. and then they blend his brain at bridgehead and it's over for him.

Update on Avatar comic: Common Enemy

Hey, Avatar fans! As I've already said, I am working on a part 2 to my speculative Avatar 3 comic, Common Enemy. Liked here.

My original outline for part 2 was going to be 11 pages long, so only slightly longer than part 1, which was 9 pages. However, the original draft felt rushed and I decided to add some things to it, and now my outline for part 2 is 15 pages long.

Right now, I'm torn. Part of me wants to stick with my original draft so that I can complete this comic within a reasonable amount of time (probably sometime in June), but another part of me wants to go with the longer version even though I probably won't finish it until sometime in July. The main difference between the two drafts is that the short version only shows Jake and Quaritch's perspective, but in the long version we get to Lo'ak's perspective of what happened to the kids before Jake and Quaritch arrived. It also includes Spider explicitly confessing that he saved Quaritch and the Sullies reacting to that while the short version just brushes over the fact that Jake still doesn't know why Quaritch is alive.

I've also thought about splitting it into 2 parts, but be warned that if I do that there is no natural place to break the story so there will be a very abrupt cliffhanger.

Since I'm having trouble deciding, I'll let you guys give your input. Which would you prefer for Common Enemy, part 2?