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I hesitated for a while, to add a caption of Zhao's thoughts in the first panel.Decided to let the reader guess what it was instead.
Page original size 5,5" X 8".
Rough pencils. Grey shading, lettering and word ballons done in Photoshop
These pages done for fun, and also as a good exercise in storytelling and planning on such a long scale, which I had not really done before.
I am not planning on inking, cleaning more or coloring them. I simply do not have the time.
The Avatar universe belongs to Mike, Bryan, Nickelodeon-Viacom-MTV.
All the characters belong to them, but a few of the extras are my own creation.
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Good choice on leaving Zhao's thoughts out. I think it makes you focus more on his expression to try and puzzle what he's thinking.
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NICE ZHAO... don't hit her again or I will be forced to break out my feminist that has guns with her.
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That's right, Zhao, attack the guards. Just don't drag her by her hair back to your cave--er, ship.
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zhaokan paaaaunch! ^0^
too much super smash bros for me...^^''
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Hey, why's the Boulder working for Lao? J/K!
Zhao DOES have a heart! Erm, I think... maybe...
Another amazing page!
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Haha, it's not the boulder, though he does look like him. Maybe a fan?
Zhao- tiny heart, mostly used to pump blood and not much else.
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And then you make me sympathize with him. Why, oh why. XC
(I love the skinny little guy\'s design.)
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...which made it about pea size, instead of flea size
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next will be jelly-bean size!! how exciting!
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PWNT.
Fascinating character work with these people....Zhao and Nauja (name, right?) both are gaining definite, impressive personalities...while remaining in-character.
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Yup, the name is right.
What is weird is...Nauja just started as a very minor character, just someone to remind him of his ties to the Water Tribe. But people made some suggestions, and somehow she grew.
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*CHEERS*
"And in Whoville that day, Zhao's heart grew three sizes!"
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"...and then, he decided to conquer Whoville."
(and increase of 3 seems to not be enough)
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LOL
Yeah, it might take a few more than three. D:
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An itsy teeny one. Sometimes.
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Awe, what she said seems to have hit Zhao right in the heart.
And I love the WHAP! URF! part.
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Finally, a few words are getting through his thick skull and making him think.
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I agree with the other comments. Zhao's expression says more than enough.
Idiot guard, how about Zhao gives HIM a broken bone or two?
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He certainly plans to let out his frustration on these guards.
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oooooh, zhao, i hope you know how big an ass you've made of yourself in just the past 10 seconds!
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That scrawny dude has a tall topknot... O_O
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He's just trying to make himself taller.
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lol, maybe I should get a topknot too... but my hair is too short.
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Hmmm, he's sad that he hurt his only cake slave. XD
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Good choice with the first panel. His expression says more than enough!
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Many thanks- I'm glad it works, even without caption.
(gotta make the reader's mind work and give mine a break)
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Welcome! You're doing a great job with facial expressions. Sometimes that works better than paraphrasing everything. 
(Actually I think some thoughts and feelings sound kinda odd when paraphrased. So letting the drawings speak for themselves is not the worst idea at all.)
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Yeah. I'm slowly learning to do that. I just get the urge to put a lot of captions sometimes.
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urf 
first on rufftoons pic yeah
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