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cute as a strawberry,

This painting has been long in the making. I had the idea over a year ago, but was wrapped up in another project and unable to get to it. And then once I finally got started on it, yet more projects kept pulling me away. It wasn't important, and I love it for that. It was purely for fun and for the love of Spongebob, and a desire for Spongebob fanart that I, an adult, could hang in my home without turning it into a little kid's bedroom. So, I'm very happy to be finished with it, and I can't wait to put it in a sleek, gold frame and hang it next to the Furby watercolor in my very classy, very adult dining room.

This was sketched in Procreate, printed out on watercolor paper, inked with custom-mixed color inks, and finished with watercolor.

“Blue fire: Only Azula has demonstrated blue firebending. While not to be confused with lightning, blue fire also seems to possess more physical force and produces a combustive effect that is more intense than that of normal fire.” -Avatar Wiki

Blue fire:

Blue Fire is a cutter, more focused, cleaner; burns the oxygen more effectively than (dirty) red fire.

This explains why Azula uses her fingers instead of fists for the most part. Even when she was younger, Azula always prefers precision over strength (ie uses her fingers and mastering her katas perfectly before firebend).

-Sifu Kisu (the fighting instructor and consultant for the Avatar franchise)

Firebending is based on Northern Shaolin style, except Azula who gets her own sub bending style (and Toph). Her firebending is mixed of both Northern Shaolin and Chachuan, but it stands different from other firebenders due to the intentional Chachuan element.

"Unlike Northern Shaolin, where nearly every strike is delivered with a high degree of power, Chachuan’s forms and attack sequences are performed in continuous waves, with each movement leading into another, coalescing into a single (or multiple, depending on the situation) powerful strike(s) at the end. [...]

Chachuan is a style that embodies contradiction and balance, and has been heralded as vigorous, yet precise, graceful and authoritative, elegant but forceful. In combat, skilled Chachuan practitioners must be extremely efficient, due to the high physical demand the acrobatic style places on its user. The prodigious skill required of a Chachuan practitioner, along with its renowned beauty and effectiveness, make it the style perfectly suited for Azula’s personality."

Source: Fighting Styles: Azula by @kyrievali

The only times we see Azula use a fist instead of just her fingers are when she fights Zuko at the Western Air Temple

and in their Agni Kai