edniz
Artist and wanderer
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Welcome to Sena’s Adventures!
A webcomic set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender
With new characters, locations, and lore!
The Government Building in Shun Fei, one of the three independent city states
The story takes place 165 years after the original story, with a completely different world building than Legend of Korra. (Yes, this comic is a sequel to AtLA and not LoK.)
Life in Shun Fei is a little bit different than how things used to be.
As for the main character of the story, it is Sena, a 12 year-old, non-bender boy. He is a bookworm and mostly annoyed with his life.
>>Click here to start reading from page 1
You can also read 10 pages ahead of time by subscribing to my Patreon!
Now, please let me tell you a little bit about how this comic came to be!
I was a die-hard fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender as a kid, and that love has never died. I've always felt that Avatar's world was so lush and alive, that so many unique stories could be born from it. And even the most simple and humble ones would be infinitely interesting.
You definitely don't have to agree with me, but I was personally disappointed with how things went after the first series, meaning with both LoK and the comics (which I must admit I've never watched or read in entirety). For one thing, I couldn't come to terms with how Avatar's world had changed so much and became a lot more like our own world. So I asked, "If it were me, how would I write it?" And that's how this comic came to be.
( Despite this, I really hope that LoK fans will still enjoy my story as an AU! )
Sena's Adventures, at its core, is meant to be a story which examines the complex spiritual problems that arise from modernization. AtLA did something very similar, but through the framework of imperialism and war. Sena's Adventures on the other hand, takes place in a peaceful time. And even though its world is technologically far less advanced than that of LoK, it still carries the seed of a conflict between "reason and magic".
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I wanted this story to feel simple and naive, like a children’s story. I really like that about AtLA and I believe many others do too, despite our biological ages.
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And a final confession. I have never tried being active on the internet consistently before and it makes me a bit nervous. I have actually been drawing this comic for almost 2 years and I made only 24 pages in total, because I had very long breaks. But now that I’m uploading it, I intend to try my best to keep it going consistently.
Just so you know, from page 9 and on, I went monochrome for convenience and I’ll probably go less detailed with the shading in future pages for the same reason.
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Please enjoy Sena’s story!
( I’m really excited for the other main characters to be revealed, but it will take a while! )
Is there such a thing as identifying as a kid? Because that’s exactly what I am and I feel so uncomfortable when people treat me as if I’m an adult, just because I look like one.
A human life is not more important than an animal life.
A human life is not more important than an animal life.
A human life is not more important than an animal life.
We are equal.
The Feminine is the most potent, real and lifegiving power in my life. But it is also the most subtle and invisible, most easily lost against the currents of normality. Most easily lost inside the struggle.
Again and again I come back to it and life is born anew. What a feeling! To be that which I had forgotten that I am. That, which is unexplainable, unintelligable. Only felt.
I am the wind, I am the trees and rocks, I am all that is breathing and crying. And life is complete, despite being incomplete.
Had I not had a man in me, could have I just be? Oh, but the man and the woman are one and the same. I love him, and he loves me. I love her, and she… She is…
Oh, she. That’s all we want to know.
Bugs in the corridor, 2023
Been listening to…
Mineral Palace, art by me
Quick acrylic on paper. Inspired by a pyrite cube I have.
Primeval Renaissance, 2020-2021
Art by me.
This painting is quite small (smaller than A5 I believe) with miniature details, which you see enhanced here. I used tiny brushes to make it and applied the paint in many thin layers. I would have wished to show you the physical piece. Unlike big paintings, you need to hold this close to you and get closer and closer to see each detail. I love that.
I am immensely captivated by early Renaissance landscape art. How they paint each tree and rock, the bizarre architecture, the blue mountains far away, the silence and magic… It just feels like somewhere I know and very real. This is a painting that come about because of those feelings.
Sadly I still lack a name for it. Well, maybe...
Castle of Alchemists, 2020
I made these things once and forgot about them. Let's have them stay here.
Still life study of a flower from a dying bouquet, under the window light.
Drawings of scenes from my animated short film, which you can watch here.
Drawings made on sticky notes, late 2017.
Some sketches I did while I was working on my animated film project in 2018. I was testing for imagery that looks both realistic and abstract at the same time. It is that midpoint where you can still make out the forest, yet there is also enough ambiguity to let you see pure, organic shapes.
Aside from the first one, these didn't make it into the movie. With time constraints, I was unable to do as much as I liked.
From the deeps he comes. From the darkness he teaches the secret of love. Those who desire light know him not.
I made this drawing for simple reasons at the time, but later realized it was the ancient imagery of the Goddess on the lion throne. The way her hair is loose on one side and done on the other means something I cannot quite understand or express, but is fascinating.
Primeval Renaissance, 2020
Acrylic on cardboard
edit: I scanned this painting and uploaded it on a new post here.
The more we debate with self-righteous people who think they are the ones that are making the world spin, the more we sink down in their hell! Leave them aside, live your life! Paint, write, make science, make art, MAKE something! And really, really enjoy it.
This is the only way to be wise. It's the only way we will ever really make a change in the world too.
The vulnerable truth beneath...
Back in 2009, I was a 13 year old mad for Avatar. I made several series in which I designed outfits for the Gaang and proudly captured them bending. 11 years later, I returned to this same ambition with my current approaches. It is extremely satisfying to have them next to my old work. Not so much because they are technically more advanced, but rather because they show how I am still the same girl, in a little bit of a different way.
〜 Water, Earth, Fire, Air 〜
This is a real time recording of me improvising to five songs from Nightwish's Imaginaerum, while I am hearing them for the very first time! It was really fun to do, because I was mostly playing without care.
Tuck me in beneath the blue Beneath the Pain Beneath the rain Goodnight kiss for a child in time Swaying blade my lullaby On the shore we sat and hoped Under the same pale moon Whose guiding light chose you Chose you all
Lyrics from The Poet and the Pendulum, written by Tuomas Holopainen Art by me (while listening to the song)
There is a process video here!
There is a process video here!