I’ve spent my Sunday doing a system that involves kung fu poses and earthbending, and the result was satisfying! Basically I made a combo system that you have to learn the poses in order to do a bending. I was really inspired by Katis
My favourite Avatar character for the awesome avatarfanzine, Toph Beifong! I love her so much, I just had to draw her! Check out all the other awesome submissions for the fanzine as well <3
In case you missed it, you can buy a print of my Toph at my society6 ^___^ View the steps here!
There is much talk about Toph’s inventing metalbending, and she is clearly an absolute genius, but you know what I love about her even more?
Toph’s response to not being able to control sand absolutely perfectly (as in hold up a sinking tower with one hand and fight off a gang of sandbenders with the other) is to work on her sandbending until she’s fully in control of every speck of dirt.
She is so wonderfully stubborn - she pursues bending not as a tool to defeat someone or gain power, but just to prove that she can do it. She’s the basic researcher of earthbending - just keeps pushing the limits of what can be done with no mind to the practical application.
This drawing made the rounds on Reddit and Tumblr when I first posted it on DeviantArt. I figured I would post it here as mine, for posterity. I love it very much.
