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Published: 2011-01-24 20:36:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 4347; Favourites: 123; Downloads: 28
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Description Katara of the Southern Water Tribe

This is Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender, she is a master waterbender who travels the world alongside aang and his friends and teaches the young avatar how to waterbend. She is fierce and determined despite her young age and just like her element is quick to adapt to any environment or situation. Her greatest characteristic is her perseverance to help others in need and protect everyone.

This is my first Avatar: TLA piece of fanart that I've submitted. Ever since I first started watching this show I fell in love with it. I have never been so enthralled in such a rich and vibrant universe full of lovable and fluid cast of characters. It's a show I definitely recommend to everyone, you wont regret it. I drew Katara here in a fierce battle pose waterbending her trademark octopus form while bending water in an upwards spiral towards her right palm ( perhaps for another devastating attack ). I worked for days on this so I think I really put more effort in this than any other art piece. I'm quite proud of it. Btw, I had so much fun drawing water you should definitely try it. As always, comments, faves, and critiques are welcome. Enjoy.

If you're interested you can see some of the sketches and background here:

sketch#1

sketch#2

background

Others in the Avatar: TLA series:

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Done with lead pencil, traced in Adobe Illustrator CS5 and colored in Photoshop.

EDIT- 2/10/11: updated this with a slightly revised version with corrected water. Enjoy.



Katara and Avatar: The Last Airbender belong to Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko and Nickelodeon.
Art belongs to me.
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Comments: 22

Kataang-crazy [2012-10-29 19:02:08 +0000 UTC]

cool

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moonlitinuyasha1985 [2012-08-07 19:58:25 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic piece!

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teen-artlover [2011-03-13 23:10:51 +0000 UTC]

This looks great!! I can tell you've put a lot of effort into this, it's really paid off. My only complaint is that Katara and the water look a little blurry compared to the background. Other than that, amazing work!

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Mariolord07 In reply to teen-artlover [2011-03-17 08:17:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I'm glad you like it. I appreciate your honest feedback too, I'll be sure to take it into consideration next time.

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teen-artlover In reply to Mariolord07 [2011-03-17 09:53:26 +0000 UTC]

No problem.

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KhaoticKhaos [2011-02-04 23:08:43 +0000 UTC]

This looks so freaking awesome! Nice work!

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Mariolord07 In reply to KhaoticKhaos [2011-02-04 23:29:32 +0000 UTC]

thank you! I'm very glad you like it.

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KhaoticKhaos In reply to Mariolord07 [2011-02-05 21:13:57 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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creepella [2011-02-02 13:57:01 +0000 UTC]

Nice coloring especially for the water. She looks good

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Mariolord07 In reply to creepella [2011-02-04 18:32:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. coloring the water was my favorite part.

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DarkNext [2011-01-28 03:33:48 +0000 UTC]

hey that's pretty cool

good work with the water effects and the pose

I should start to make some fan art XD

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Mariolord07 In reply to DarkNext [2011-01-28 07:27:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. Surprisingly, drawing water is pretty fun, you should try it.

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DarkNext In reply to Mariolord07 [2011-01-29 22:30:52 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome

will try to

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SuperSmurgger [2011-01-26 12:40:08 +0000 UTC]

Woooooow excellent work, especially with the lighting effects!!

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Mariolord07 In reply to SuperSmurgger [2011-01-27 22:33:16 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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SuperSmurgger In reply to Mariolord07 [2011-01-28 10:23:16 +0000 UTC]

You're very Welcome !

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Lil-Fleck [2011-01-24 20:46:54 +0000 UTC]

I'm not much of a Katara fan, but great work doing this It looks really great!

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Great-Pantheism-011 In reply to Lil-Fleck [2011-01-25 04:31:00 +0000 UTC]

The following petition represents us wanting M. Night Shyamalan to give us his original 125-minute version of "The Last Airbender" which he filmed before summer-2009...much better than the version we ended up seeing in theaters. The original 125-minute version was praised by critics/insiders (published reviews) weeks/months before the movie was released.
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Mariolord07 In reply to Lil-Fleck [2011-01-24 20:54:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, I'm glad you like.

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freak4zelda [2011-01-24 20:39:46 +0000 UTC]

nicely done!

although, not to seem critical or anything, but her left hand seems, rather awkward. Water bending to smooth and flow-ish movements, so I think her hand should be open instead of bent like claws...

But otherwise, I LUV IT!

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Great-Pantheism-011 In reply to freak4zelda [2011-01-25 04:32:58 +0000 UTC]

The following petition represents us wanting M. Night Shyamalan to give us his original 125-minute version of "The Last Airbender" which he filmed before summer-2009...much better than the version we ended up seeing in theaters. The original 125-minute version was praised by critics/insiders (published reviews) weeks/months before the movie was released.
[link]
Sign now.

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Mariolord07 In reply to freak4zelda [2011-01-24 20:53:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the comment. The open claw hand was actually intended to kind of show Katara's fierce nature but you do bring up a good point about waterbending hand coordination. I'll be sure to take that into consideration next time. Thanks .

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