October 16, 2012
Howdy, strangers! I’m not sure if Korra Nation already released this particular version, but here is an early concept piece I did of Amon in early 2010.

Howdy, strangers!

I’m not sure if Korra Nation already released this particular version, but here is an early concept piece I did of Amon in early 2010.

11:19pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZMz7zvVRtCPd
(Notes: 1,637)
  
Filed under: Amon the legend of korra lok concept art Bryan Konietzko artists on tumblr 
August 10, 2012
Still brutally busy, so I’m digging into the archives. This is about as far back as I can dig (10+ years), as this was one of the three color illustrations I did for our initial pitch of Avatar. This image is in the art book, but it is a little small and printed too dark, so I thought it would be cool to show it here. As detailed in the book, we gave our pitch to Nickelodeon two weeks after coming up with the idea. That was a crazy, fertile two weeks. (I saw a couple of the notes on my dashboard for that Zuko sketch. Yes, Mike and I created Avatar in the spring of 2002, so we’ve been living with the main characters for over 10 years now, even though they didn’t hit the world stage until early 2005.)

Still brutally busy, so I’m digging into the archives. This is about as far back as I can dig (10+ years), as this was one of the three color illustrations I did for our initial pitch of Avatar. This image is in the art book, but it is a little small and printed too dark, so I thought it would be cool to show it here. As detailed in the book, we gave our pitch to Nickelodeon two weeks after coming up with the idea. That was a crazy, fertile two weeks.

(I saw a couple of the notes on my dashboard for that Zuko sketch. Yes, Mike and I created Avatar in the spring of 2002, so we’ve been living with the main characters for over 10 years now, even though they didn’t hit the world stage until early 2005.)

9:42pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZMz7zvRAIBX1
(Notes: 3,206)
  
Filed under: Avatar: The Last Airbender ATLA pitch concept art Bryan Konietzko artists on tumblr 
May 7, 2012
This is the first, quick concept I did of Tahno, the team captain of the Wolf-bats, voiced by the great Rami Malek from HBO’s The Pacific. The character was largely inspired by the ridiculously over the top Japanese kickboxer Kizaemon Saiga, whose ridiculous antics include having his cornermen fix his hair with a mirror between rounds in K-1 matches. Ryu whipped up Tahno’s character design (which I think Korra Nation released) based on this concept, to which I made some minor tweaks, and there you have the character we love to hate.

This is the first, quick concept I did of Tahno, the team captain of the Wolf-bats, voiced by the great Rami Malek from HBO’s The Pacific. The character was largely inspired by the ridiculously over the top Japanese kickboxer Kizaemon Saiga, whose ridiculous antics include having his cornermen fix his hair with a mirror between rounds in K-1 matches. Ryu whipped up Tahno’s character design (which I think Korra Nation released) based on this concept, to which I made some minor tweaks, and there you have the character we love to hate.

7:13pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZMz7zvL3zGvW
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Filed under: Tahno concept art Wolf-bats 
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