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Published: 2006-05-12 18:46:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 23950; Favourites: 619; Downloads: 3471
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W.I.P. projectMy favorite old guys from Avatar with their younger selves.
The subject matter has been done by me before and by other awesome avatar fanartists in variation.
But I re-watched Rurouni Kenshin and got so fangirly
, listening to the themesong "Heart of Sword" that I was drawing young!Pakku and before I knew it, I was getting that tingly feeling in my drawing hand and was drawing almost everyone else and and and....AIEEEE dont' kill me 
This thankfully was not a result of boredom, but one of those moments in time where drawing something in a hyperactive state of mind is like catching lighting in a bottle and probably cannot be duplicated later,
Because...Avatar has some kickass old people characters, along with their kickass children characters holy crap... so this drawing I'm actually proud of in terms of improvement and expression and character aging, especially since before I watched Avatar, all I could draw was prepubescent androgynous children.
Master Pakku, King Bumi, Monk Gyattso, Avatar Roku, Master Jeong-Jeong, Iroh are (c) to Mike and Bryan
younger versions of them are simply liberties I took. They probably didn't even look anything like this.
Please don't sue meinspired with music from:
TM Revolution: "Heart of Sword"
Native Radio: Spirit of Nations : "Grandfather"
Native Radio: "The Makoche Masters"
Prince of Egypt soundtack: "Deliver Us."
Fushigi Yuugi: "Dengon"
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Roku, Gyatso and Jeong-Jeong are so handsome!
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Awesome! Beautiful! Inspiring! Just one question....where's Piandao? :'/
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Omg awesome! They look like ho thy wold 40 years ago!!!!
Points for Avatar/RK
-xo.
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Young Roku is smexy, you gotta finish him first.
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Holy crap... That's just awesome! o___o The young Iroh looks WICKED.
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How come everything you do is always perfect???
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wow! jeong jeong is really hot! this is really awesome!
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I thought I would never say this... gyatso is HOOOT
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Has anyone tried a digital coloring of this? It's awesome.
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How did you do that????!!??? It looks exactly like them!!! *Foam*
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wow uncle looked pretty good back in the day
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Wow, I love Iroh and Rokku's eyes. I personally find it hard to make eyes look like they're glowing in sketches. Great job here.
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What's kind of scary is that they are all REALLY HAWT when they're young!
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What's kind of scary is that they are all REALLY HAWT when they're young!
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Fair enough
Thanks anyway!
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Whoa. The fluidity of movement and how well you got down the character's expressions makes this awesome!!!
Just wondering - now that you do have photoshop, any chance you'd consider colouring this version in it? I'm faving this sketch version because the colouring just didn't do it for me
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thank you very much!
and perhaps someday I'd probably consider coloring this version in photoshop. But probably not anytime soon.
Specially since I didn't do this for anyone in particular other than what I wanted to draw at the time 
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young Iroh is HAWT.... omg... *NOOOO* I will not betray my ZUKO!!! P
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Β‘Que entretenido!
Me gustΓ³ mucho este trabajo, estΓ‘ muy bien hecho.
Β‘Bumi es genial!
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Boomy younger version really reminds me of Aden from Street Fighter >.> Sorry bout the randomness D: It's really cool
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... *kablink* I love this! I really like looking at how you go about aging and... de-aging (if that's even a word) the characters!
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If i could fav this more than once i would. ^^ it's incredible.
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Too cool for words. The old guys pwns everyone else !
I especially like how you did Roku
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all the old guys use to be really hott espesially pacu or how ever you spell his name
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So beautiful...
Roku particularly looks like he stepped out of the past.
Good joB!!!!
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I aint good as I was once.....But, I still got it...man looking at those pictures reminded me of that song for some reason @.@
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AWESOME!!!
I really like Pakku and Bumi....Pakku just looks perfectly aligned with his personality (he was probably somewhat snooty, though not quite as much as Han), and Bumi just looks incredible.
Iroh....eh, he's the only one I'm not entirely blown away by, but still, good work all the same!
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Wow. Just...wow. This and your "older Avatar kids" thing are just...wow.
Pakku was effin' HAWT! XD
P.S. Love your pencils. Your sketch style is wonderful^^
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King Bumi: Crackedheaded then, Crackheaded now.
May I just say that you have floored me with this. Imagine when it's done; that will plain kill me!
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i love the way you age people, it's very accurate, or so i think
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Wow, I love this! The expressions are great and I absolutely love the younger versions of everybody. My favorite would have to be the Iroh one.
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This is beautiful, you managed to capture them perfectly both in young and old age instant 
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man u can draw!!!!!!!! this is my fist post i saw some off ur stuff on distant horizon and im gob smacked ur must be the best avatar drawer there is!
p.s. u should see if the avatar creators will give u a job? you good enouth.
proble even better and i hear its good money.
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WOW! This has to be one of the best avatar fanart-things I've seen yet! Love Iroh and his younger self.
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Awesome! I love the look of all of them, Iroh and Pakku especilly. VERY cool! *favs*
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I LOVE THIS!!!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!! It's so good! All their positions are excellent and their expressions and and and EVERYTHING! You deserve SERIOUS kudos for this!
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Beautiful!
I have to agree 110% about AtLA having kickass elderly characters. It's one of the reasons why I like the series so much. It's kind of like Harry Potter I suppose. Anyway it just appeals a lot to me that the value of elders is properly represented in a cartoon series, of all things. (am -so- in love with this show)
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Wow I can't wait to see the finished product. I love how you captured Bumi in an age period of his life we can oly envision. We've seen young Bumi and old Bumi but not verial uncrotchity non 112 Bumi. I like how you kept the same hairstyle he had when he was twelve. And wow Iroh and Gyattso look amazing in their younget years too. I love the old guys in Avatar and you capture their youth beautifully.
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