elventhespian:

So yeah while all ya’ll are debating the necessity for female mentors and such in the show, I’m doodling the need for Bolin to get a sweet ride of his own.

Priorities—I has them.

pro-tearbender:

owldee:

mako and bolin page 2

JDS, mid-right: Mako keeps himself warm during a cold, snowy night in Republic City. This concept was done to help get the…[unintelligible]…of the character…[unintelligible].

BK, mid-right: Joaquim really had an Industrial Age/Dickensian take on the Korra world, especially in his explicatives of the brothers. Mako concept by Joaquim Dos Santos.

BK, bottom right: Once we revised…[unintelligible]…Ryu’s…[unintelligible]…take on the brothers, he…[unintelligible]…in and did a fantastic job finalizing both of their designs, all the way down to Bolin’s skivvies. Mako and Bolin design by Ki-Hyun Ryu. Color by Bryan Konietzko and Sylvia Filcak-Blackwolf.

slacktension:

pro-tearbender:

owldee:

mako and bolin page 1

MD, top: We wanted to include a story about brothers in Korra, which is where the idea for Mako and Bolin came from. They also illustrate how family and culture had become more mixed, seventy years after the original series. Mako and Bolin’s mother came from the Fire Nation and their father hailed from the Earth Kingdom, but they both were killed when Mako and Bolin were young. Forced to grow up too soon, Mako protected and shielded Bolin from the darker side of the world. This is why Mako grew to become the more cynical and serious of the two, while Bolin still remained childlike and naive.

JDS, middle: This is a pretty early pass I did on the brothers. It’s kind of strange to look back at these now, as I think our initial…[unintelligible]…was to make Bolin a little pudgy. Still, you can see some of the DNA for the characters…[unintelligible]…in. I can remember struggling to find the impact that progress and industry would have on fashion in the Avatar universe. Mako and Bolin concepts by Joaquim Dos Santos.

MD, bottom: Mako and Bolin spent much of their youth running small-time scams in the…[unintelligible]…streets of Republic City (above). Concepts by Eun-Sang Yang. Paintings by Frederic Stewart. Right: Ki-Hyun Ryu’s wacky concepts of a version of Bolin that never came to be. 

JDS, bottom: You’ve got to love Ryu…Only he could envision one of the lead characters as a bowl cut-wearing…[unintelligible]…clown. Bolin concepts by Ki-Hyun Ryu.

RUNNING SMALL TIME SCAMS

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH H H

willwednesdaywin:

Bolin Collaboration with Groecs by ~Awitan

willwednesdaywin:

Bolin is sad (DAmuro) by ~bolin01

masterarrowhead:

I was scanning some sketches from my sketchbook and decided to repost these ones back from the beginning of April with little Bolin and added some color to them too hehe

also drew a regular Bolin to compare from kid to teen

idk it’s a bit off but whatever here you are fff

bo-loving:

A quick sketch of Bolin in the ulimate cute Bara sweater. First it looked great but then the more i looked at it the more i started to notice so many faults.

But heck, it’s just a quick sketch and i wanted to please myself with this u H u.