My very first Avatar Attempt...

Okay, so as many of you probably know, the movie avatar has been re-released in theaters with bonus scenes. So, at the festival I painted at this last weekend, I had some people ask me if I could do an avatar. And, not being one to back down from a challenge, I say "I've been itching to do one forever! But since it's my first try, I'll give you a discount." And since I've been oogling at all of the wonderful avatars posted on this forum, I thought I'd give it a try! I had nothing to look at, but having seen the movie several times, I thought I could do it okay. And here is what I came up with! I ended up painting 8 of them the entire festival, but due to lines at the times, these were the only decent pics I got! Lemme know what you think! I'd love to be able to improve this design to add it to my board!

Punky you inspired me to try it tonight too I waited long enough haha

Love yours! What did you use, if i may ask.

You did a great job!! Thanks for posting some pictures. I bet that you had a blast!!

I did have a blast painting these! Then of course, Avatar is currently my favorite movie, lol. I used D F/X Light Blue, Dark Blue, and white with a medium filbert brush, a large sponge, and a #2 round for the dots and eye liner. The blending out of the lines was the hardest part, since in the film the Na'vi didn't have really harsh lines.

Phew! I thought it was just me thinking blending out the lines was difficult. lol Mine didn't blend very well but maybe with practice...

Wow! Great job, especially blending out DFX(not an easy task).

Haha, yeah, it's not as easy as blending out Mehron, but it can be done, I mean, The Wolfe Brothers do it! You just have to work quickly and have a sponge ready. What I did was I would paint a line with relatively dry paint and then have a sponge with a shade of blue in between the base and the stripes ready to beat and blend out the harsh lines; I would literally have brush in one hand and sponge in the other. I had to do it that way because it was 97 degrees out with a breeze... so in some cases, the paint would dry on the brush it was drying so fast.

you did a great job!

BTW I love your FPF Avatar too(the green one:-)

Niiiice work Punky they look great & without anything to look at Love the new FPF avatar too the green looks great on you.

Thanks everyone! I really was happy with how the Na'vi tuened out, and the eye design is inspired by an arm design I saw somewhere and stuck in my "ideas" folder. I can't remember where I saw it, but I have an inkling to say it was on here, but can't remember who the inspiring artist is. I was really just struck by the whole round-ended swirls instead of the classic fade into a fine point swirl I always use. It's a wonderful design element!

I get my best inspirations that way.