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Happy Zutara Week everyone!!

Here's a quick lil thing for Vintage. Inspired by 1950's postcards and art!

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KuroFai Olympics, 2024: Ancient vs Modern

Team Art: Pine, Spruce - Hope in Adversity

Set in an AU where they're on opposite sides of some conflict and can only communicate through letters. Maybe Fai's a prince and Kurogane's a knight! Maybe they're from different countries and they're visiting the same kingdom for once! Maybe they're both nobles in a court but can't be seen talking to each other!

Anyway Kurogane probably writes some heartfelt thing and Fai just responds with:

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Benten gave a shaky chuckle. “I think that’s been building up in me for a while. I— Yeah, you’re right. I should probably wait until he’s better before I open that can of worms at him, huh?” “Perhaps,” Nureyev said with a wry look. Benten flopped back down into the chair next to Nureyev, pulling his leg up once more, and the pair lapsed into mutual silence. The clock continued to tick.

I drew this last year and I'm super excited to finally share it -- art for chapter 11 of here's to feeling alive again by DesertWillow. Go check out the fic, it's so so good!!

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KuroFai Olympics 2023, Fate vs Choice

Team Art: The World

Upright: Fulfillment, completion, achievement, wholeness. The end of an old cycle and the beginning of a new one.

Some post final battle cuddles in Clow -- these two finally figured their shit out :)

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Sadboy mage and grumpy ninja hours

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Day 5: Album

Me to my roommate: so. I need one more image.

My roommate: you know those nerf water guns?

Me: say no more

Tumblr hates me, please click on the image for better resolution!

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Day 4: Meeting

Back at it again with these two!

Happy Zutara Week everyone!! I only have two pieces put together for this year (a third if I have the time to get it done...) but I’m here!! 

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Floriography by @goreapologist

Second piece for the @penumbrabang event! Petya’s fic is so good and, to use their words, I am holding it ever so gently -- everybody go give it a read!!!! 

Me, drawing this: i am going to make this as Soft (tm) as possible

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NDA No Loose Lips by Illuminahsti

Second year doing the @penumbrabang as an artist and I’ve had a blast! Here’s the first piece I did, a tabloid cover which was super fun to make.

Go check out Alec’s fic over on AO3!! I love their writing so much, and oh boy oh boy this fic is a blast!!

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Day 4: Freebie - Redraw!

Since we had a free day, I decided to redraw one of my old Zutara Week pieces from 2013. The prompt then was calor, and tbh I’m embarrassed by old art but it just shows how much I’ve improved! I’m putting the old piece under the read more bc listen. It’s bad. At least one thing hasn’t changed, and that is that backgrounds still vex me, lol.

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Day 2: Disguised

Made it in time!! I wanted to draw some Blutara, and the classic fic Dancing in the Dark by DamageCtrl immediately came to mind, so this is inspired by that! 

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Day 1: Hair

It’s that time of the year again! I have like, nothing prepared so we’ll see how many prompts I’m able to get to, but I’m going to do my best.

Zutara Week has a special place in my heart and I’m excited to see what everyone did this year!

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If the Applause Stops by Ryyves

I had a blast drawing this for this year’s @penumbrabang! I’ve been wanting to join more fandom events and my love for the Penumbra Podcast knows no bounds so I decided to give it a go this year. I was paired with an incredible writer, ryyves’ fic is so great, go read it right now!!!!

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Day 7: Rebirth

If you know me, you know I love vintage fashion, so here have 1950′s Zuko and Katara! Fun fact, I own the dress Katara’s wearing, it’s one of my favorite pieces of vintage. 

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Day 4: Celestial

“You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun”

Zuko and Katara as Sun + Moon gods! 

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Day 2: Counterpart

What, you thought I’d be able to make it through zutara week without drawing the Blue Spirit and the Painted Lady? That’s impossible for me!!!

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Day 7: Easier

The Southern Raiders was a big turning point for their friendship, so here, uh, have a screenshot redraw from that episode.

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