The Last Airbender, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, comes out on July 1. But I will not be seeing it, because the casting choices made for this movie are too incredibly offensive, and I refuse to spend any money in support of it. If you don’t know about the controversy, go to racebending.com.
Still, I’m on a rather big Avatar: The Last Airbender kick right now, so I decided to try a bit of fanart of Katara. In the TV series, the Water Tribe culture is based on arctic Inuit cultures, so I styled Katara with this reference in mind. She looks a bit too old, so I might give it another try later.
Uh… posting on my blog reminds me… I have to finish modeling my cat!
OMG! Thank you Nilah, I thought I was the only one that felt that way about this new film. Everything in the cartoon was Asian (Japanese, Chinese, Inuit, etc). I’m not saying an other than asian character couldn’t have played these roles, but geesh I don’t think they tried to even look for all the very capable asian actors. Just my rant.
BTW Awesome painting I don’t think she looks too old, just right in my opinion as far as the Inuit look about her – if you can, add a little bit more fullness to the face (puffier cheeks) if you want to further create the illusion of youth