I can't believe I actually did this, but I took up 's open challange/request to redraw his Maiko pic "Not This Time." For explanations of the premise of the pic, see the original --> [link]

Done entirely in 4B pencil (because I couldn't find my darker ones or charcoals for some reason) on computer paper. I was going to just do the rough sketch on the computer paper and then do the final in my sketchbook, but then this one of my roughs turned out so well, that I just worked with it and made it my final. I would have preferred the texture of the sketchbook paper, but oh well. The banner is one of the banners from Zuko's room on the ship in season one, because I thought the wall looked too bare. It took a lot longer than I had anticipated (most of the night), but that's ok. It was fun. And I wanted to submit something new before I go out of town for a week on Saturday.

I know Mai's head looks small. My perspective got skewed or something, since she's supposed to be behind him and off to the side. ...oddly, her head doesn't look so small in the original. Oh well. All in all, though, I think it turned out decently enough.

*sigh* It's still not my preferred ship, but oh well. I guess this is part of my way of learning to deal with it's impending canonization.



Avatar and it's characters belong to Mike and Brian. And I suppose the premise belongs to ~swan-swan. The pencil and paper were mine, though.