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A year ago, Sun one of my favorite OCs, and main OC for Jingdou finished his final mission and leveled up to 5, the highest level. Artistically, it was one of the hardest things I have ever done, because when I joined Jingdou, I have been drawing with a mouse for years, and I was always content with it. But seeing so many, fantastic artists contribute to the club, and submit fantastic pieces again again really inspired me to push myself, to take risks and improve. I ended up getting my first tablet ever, and I literally drew something for Jingdou every single damn day, and it's mainly because of Jingdou that I'm at the skill level I am today. I had a lot of hard times in Jingdou, it made me want to rage, want to cry, and I did both of those usually at the same time. But because of Jingdou, I forged friendships that burn hotter than the sun (no pun intended) and I will always be forever grateful.

When Jingdou did it's time skip, and it was revealed all those who made it to level 5 before the jump would get a Wanqu Amulet, I was ecstatic, mainly because I EARNED IT. I earned it with blood, sweat and tears, and I didn't win it via contest, I earned it, with all the hours I put into developing this character, and expanding his story, and putting my heart and soul into his missions, I earned something that would allow me to evolve this character that has been with me since 2004.

When I made Sun, I always made him out to be a Waterbender who didn't like his own element and longed to be a earthbender. It was one of the main elements (no pun intended) that I touched upon in his missions frequently and it became one of his key defining qualities. When I was redesigning for Jingdou, I COULD have just made him a earthbender from that start, but that would have been cheating, to him and to me. And so started of the journey of this little hippie, naive boy who disliked the water tribe in him, and embraced the earth kingdom, and as such often did things like a earthbender would. Whether it be fighting, or talking, or menial tasks. But eventually he came to embrace his other half and made a nice mix of the two as time went on.

The flashback in the comic is a direct lift from one of my favorite old missions I did where Sun remembers his mom's words:

When I received the Wanqu Amulet I knew exactly what I wanted to do, but somehow I just couldn't execute it the way I wanted to. I kept trying and trying, but I couldn't get it just right. I couldn't skip it cause one we always have to show how our characters got the Amulet, and two I promised Miya I would because Miya really means a lot to me and I value her opinion A LOT.

Unfortunately a dark day happened and I fell out of Jingdou for a long time and I couldn't do ANYTHING Jingdou for a long long time.

But with the start of Korra, suddenly a huge breath of life was blown into me and I started kicking out giant comics like CRAZY, and I forced myself to not be lazy, to color them, and I am really proud of them because they show how much I have grown. And then one fateful night, I had a dream about Sun getting his Wanqu, and that morning I decided to stop being such a buttnugget and DO IT. I decided to do everything I wanted to do, to plan it out as it happened in my dream, and not cut out ANYTHING no matter how big the comic ended up being. And as you can tell it's really freaking huge.

And instead of being a dumbo and trying to finish it as quick as possibly and work on it continuously, I decided to be smart and I split it up into four pages. I colored one page, did the words and then I would stop and do other things, and i repeated the process over five days, so by the end of it, I wasn't frustrated, i wasn't angry, I wasn't tired, and in turn I have never been more proud of a comic, because this is basically my giant love letter to Jingdou for everything it has given and shown me.

And when I look back and look at Sun's final mission:

and then look at this, it really dawns on me that while I'm not the best artist, I have improved so fucking damn much and for the first time I'm proud of myself and if I could I would plaster this comic all over my house.

So thank you Ally for getting me to join Jingdou.
Thank you Miya for always being there for me in Jingdou.
Thank you Nisa for commenting on my art and meaning every word.
Thank you Ray for asking me for opinions and missions and asking for my help for events.
Thank you Gilly for being one of the biggest inspirations in my life
Thank you Josie for being the most important person in my life
Thank you Jeanie for being my friend and valuing my help
Thank you Shadow for making great characters and being friends with me and Sun
Thank you Shoy for taking my advice and giving me advice to help me
Thank you Cho for the competition and critique
Thank you Liz for being friend and helping me develop my characters
Thank you Aki for inspiring me and making me work towards that one day my art might look as gorgeous as yours

Thank you Jingdou for pushing me when I never would have pushed myself.

I'm sorry if this overly long and sappy but I love you all and I am a big mess of tears right now so I hope you guys enjoyed experiencing Sun finally become what he wanted to be since the very beginning.

Description
A year ago, Sun one of my favorite OCs, and main OC for Jingdou finished his final mission and leveled up to 5, the highest level. Artistically, it was one of the hardest things I have ever done, because when I joined Jingdou, I have been drawing with a mouse for years, and I was always content with it. But seeing so many, fantastic artists contribute to the club, and submit fantastic pieces again again really inspired me to push myself, to take risks and improve. I ended up getting my first tablet ever, and I literally drew something for Jingdou every single damn day, and it's mainly because of Jingdou that I'm at the skill level I am today. I had a lot of hard times in Jingdou, it made me want to rage, want to cry, and I did both of those usually at the same time. But because of Jingdou, I forged friendships that burn hotter than the sun (no pun intended) and I will always be forever grateful.

When Jingdou did it's time skip, and it was revealed all those who made it to level 5 before the jump would get a Wanqu Amulet, I was ecstatic, mainly because I EARNED IT. I earned it with blood, sweat and tears, and I didn't win it via contest, I earned it, with all the hours I put into developing this character, and expanding his story, and putting my heart and soul into his missions, I earned something that would allow me to evolve this character that has been with me since 2004.

When I made Sun, I always made him out to be a Waterbender who didn't like his own element and longed to be a earthbender. It was one of the main elements (no pun intended) that I touched upon in his missions frequently and it became one of his key defining qualities. When I was redesigning for Jingdou, I COULD have just made him a earthbender from that start, but that would have been cheating, to him and to me. And so started of the journey of this little hippie, naive boy who disliked the water tribe in him, and embraced the earth kingdom, and as such often did things like a earthbender would. Whether it be fighting, or talking, or menial tasks. But eventually he came to embrace his other half and made a nice mix of the two as time went on.

The flashback in the comic is a direct lift from one of my favorite old missions I did where Sun remembers his mom's words:

When I received the Wanqu Amulet I knew exactly what I wanted to do, but somehow I just couldn't execute it the way I wanted to. I kept trying and trying, but I couldn't get it just right. I couldn't skip it cause one we always have to show how our characters got the Amulet, and two I promised Miya I would because Miya really means a lot to me and I value her opinion A LOT.

Unfortunately a dark day happened and I fell out of Jingdou for a long time and I couldn't do ANYTHING Jingdou for a long long time.

But with the start of Korra, suddenly a huge breath of life was blown into me and I started kicking out giant comics like CRAZY, and I forced myself to not be lazy, to color them, and I am really proud of them because they show how much I have grown. And then one fateful night, I had a dream about Sun getting his Wanqu, and that morning I decided to stop being such a buttnugget and DO IT. I decided to do everything I wanted to do, to plan it out as it happened in my dream, and not cut out ANYTHING no matter how big the comic ended up being. And as you can tell it's really freaking huge.

And instead of being a dumbo and trying to finish it as quick as possibly and work on it continuously, I decided to be smart and I split it up into four pages. I colored one page, did the words and then I would stop and do other things, and i repeated the process over five days, so by the end of it, I wasn't frustrated, i wasn't angry, I wasn't tired, and in turn I have never been more proud of a comic, because this is basically my giant love letter to Jingdou for everything it has given and shown me.

And when I look back and look at Sun's final mission:

and then look at this, it really dawns on me that while I'm not the best artist, I have improved so fucking damn much and for the first time I'm proud of myself and if I could I would plaster this comic all over my house.

So thank you Ally for getting me to join Jingdou.
Thank you Miya for always being there for me in Jingdou.
Thank you Nisa for commenting on my art and meaning every word.
Thank you Ray for asking me for opinions and missions and asking for my help for events.
Thank you Gilly for being one of the biggest inspirations in my life
Thank you Josie for being the most important person in my life
Thank you Jeanie for being my friend and valuing my help
Thank you Shadow for making great characters and being friends with me and Sun
Thank you Shoy for taking my advice and giving me advice to help me
Thank you Cho for the competition and critique
Thank you Liz for being friend and helping me develop my characters
Thank you Aki for inspiring me and making me work towards that one day my art might look as gorgeous as yours

Thank you Jingdou for pushing me when I never would have pushed myself.

I'm sorry if this overly long and sappy but I love you all and I am a big mess of tears right now so I hope you guys enjoyed experiencing Sun finally become what he wanted to be since the very beginning.