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Cursed Flame

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Sooooo, this is inspired by Kurei from Flame of Recca. Older brother who fights the main character for most of the show before going through an epiphany that leads him to fighting along side (for the most part) the main character... Uses fire as a weapon, has a scar on his left eye and shaggy black hir that falls all over the place... Yeah, that's not only Zuko, but Kurei. I thought that was hillarious.

So this came about =D

I was really nervous about this, because when I inked his outfit, it turned out... fucking sexy. It was WAY better than I thought it would be, so I wanted the rest of it to be perfect. So I made flimsy copies of it and practiced the background and fire on that. I'm soooooo glad I did.

Originally Zuko was going to have fire going up his arm, like a wing (Kurei's Pheonix Wing) or like his original Flame Daggers from 'The Avatar State' in Book 2. But when I did the copies, it just... wouldn't come out right. And there was a GIANT hole bellow his arm, where the flame is now. I was planning on just filling it with backround color, but I tried out having a trail of flame and it worked!

So I ended up doing a ton of tests to see the background color, flame positions, body colors, textures etc. Then did the flame. Omg I was petrified, because I did NOT want to screw it up. It came out perfect if I do say so myself =D

Then I did the background, using a TINY hint of red to give it depth, and then it was complete. I had ment to color in hints of Zuko's flesh, using colors for the shading of his face and hand, but I had decided to save that for last and oh BOY am I glad I did! I couldn't bring myself to color his flesh when this was just so perfect!

That is the super exciting tale on how the hell I came up with this. My favorite piece for the Mini Bang. And the last of the four I'm uploading here =D

Watercolor and Neopiko Inks on Watercolor paper.
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ยฉ 2011 - 2024 Clair-chan
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I really like this, it didn't need more color at all. I love the fire and the belts <3