Katara and Toph in Love

This peice is something that I did for 's Non-Cannon Contest. The idea behind the contest is to make artwork of non-cannon pairings.

Sorry Zutarian and Kataang fans but those pairings are ruled out as spelled out in the rules of the contest.

As far as the technical aspects of this particular peice, I used some of the commission peices done for me by who did a few for the Avatar series at my request. Using the skintones that he used, I applied them to this peice, which is why the skintones of Katara and Toph look a little differe (for those of you who have been following my work closely).

For the pose, it was something that I decided to experiment with, so I needed a pose where two people are in a tender moment of intimacy that is non-sexual in anyway. So, I found a picture from an anime series called "Glamour" and using that pose I set about my task of making it for Toph and Katara.

Also if you look closely you'll see that Toph is wearing a Watertribe necklace like Katara's. This is from an earlier work I did called KaToph Necklace. Within the pendant itself are the flat lines and coin symbols of the Earth Kingdom, while there are the rolling waves of the Water Tribe. Put that on a green collar and there you have a necklace that Katara would give to Toph.

As for the time that it took to make this, I think the drawing by hand took about 2 hours, the outlining in Photoshop took about 2 1/2, and the final coloring took about 8 hours. So it was a full 12 1/2 hour project.

(c) Katara and Toph Befong - Avatar the Last Airbender – Nickelodeon – Michael DiMartino and Tim Hedrick