The Complete Worldbending series. Avatar (The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra) as depicted by Windy-Asylum @ DA. (Pugletto @ Tumblr).
Information/Separate Threads:
- Ancient/World Avatars - The one that started it all.
- Air Nomads - The different Air Nations, as influenced by South America, Africa, and East Asia
- Earth Nation - The different states of the Earth Nation, as influenced by the North American Southwest, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
- Water Nation - Water peoples! As influenced by Hawaii, Mongolia, and Madagascar.
- Fire Nation - A look at the last and final part of the Worldbending series - the Fire Nation! As influenced by Mesoamerica, India, and Japan.
SCIENCE!
…wha—-
He’s stalling us sir, the portal is closing! We must leave with the Tesseract now!
This actually looks really cool wtf. SCIENCE.
It’s a bottle of invisible, flammable, heavier-than-air gas. Pretty though.
Unf.
Holy crap…. I used to work with her!! She is a paramedic with the Colorado Springs Fire Department…. and I worked with her while she was a medic on the ambulance here!
8O
Pics like this make me miss my swimteam body… I had abs, once upon a time… then I became an artist. SOB
Environmental color # 3: Fire and Lava
Notice how the smoke in the forest fire images adds a color of its own, giving a very desaturated cold shadow to the otherwise hot, orange picture.
There are two approaches to drawing scenes with intense fiery lighting. You can either go for a contrast between the light and shadow, creating dramatic silhuettes and lighting:
Or you can make a stark contrast of warm light and cold shadow:
It really depends on the scene that you’re drawing, but generally the former only works visually for more close-up shots, because that’s the only time it would realistically be seen.
