I Am More than what I Once Was

W.I.P. project

My 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 me

inspired 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"