Katara and Toph in Love (Patreon)

 
This piece is something that I did for Avatar-fan’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 piece, I used some of the commission pieces done for me by DarkDP  who did a few for the Avatar series at my request.  Using the  skin-tones that he used, I applied them to this piece, which is why the  skin-tones  of Katara and Toph look a little different (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 ½, and the final coloring took about 8 hours.   So it was a full 12 ½ hour project.

© Katara and Toph Befong - Avatar the Last Airbender – Nickelodeon – Michael DiMartino and Tim Hedrick  

(sarcasm) Thank you, Patreon, for allowing me not to post my artwork  here that even though it may be safe for work there's always the  possibility of me being suspended.  So thank you and you're  wonderful  moderators for that.   Especially this picture since there's nothing  sexually suggestive at all in this picture.