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been meaning to draw this for a bit

Very old turtle vine 😂 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐀🍕

Two artfight attacks!! I’ve been working full time so I haven’t been able to do much :( but! I have a break coming up so I’ll be cranking out some more then >:)

I used Krita to make both of these! I upload all the speedpaints in one big video at the end of the month.

Chimken.

Mikey skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Box turtles are the kinds of turtles who can fully fit into and close their shells along a single hinge in their plastron, which once closed is extremely hard to break into for any kind of predator especially if they cannot get a proper grip on the dome of the shell. Box turtles are also usually found in plains rather than ponds, and while they need water to survive and keep hydrated and can swim well, they’re not generally considered aquatic. Box turtles do have an interesting adaptation due to their more northern range of being able to survive freezing temperatures for a short period of time by slowing their metabolism outside of seasonal brumation (similar to hibernation, but more of a dormant state) if absolutely needed.

After watching TMNT ‘03 where the turtles meditate to save oxygen and prevent suffocation in a broken airlock, I thought, why not mix their ninja ability to conceal their body heat and breath and mix it with a turtles natural ability to brumate? Perhaps the brothers could enter into a completely dormant state on command with enough training in order to survive extreme situations or astral project in some form. Just a fun thought to tie their strong mystic powers with their physical abilities!

Although I use the term heterothermy to refer to them being able to vary between generating their own body heat while active and relying on environmental temperature while inactive, the intricacies of understanding thermal regulation in animals eludes me. If there’s a term that fits better, go ahead! I’m not a biologist so you probably know better lol

These are all my personal head cannons! You can use em’ as reference or not, whichever you prefer :)

[General][Raph][Donnie][Leo][Splinter]

Donnie skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Alright so softshell turtles right. They funky. It’s a lot more obvious that their shells are part of their ribs, as you can actually see the faint outline of their fused vertebrae and ribs on their shells. The reason their shells are so soft is because the edges and much of the lower half of their shell is actually all just cartilage and skin. Their plastron are weird, because the bone plates are largely separate and pointy, held together by harder cartilage the same way human ribs are attached around the sternum.

Donnie was weird to figure out on account of the cartilage lower half of his softshell, but I tried to compromise with his lower back vertebrae being unfused to still allow for the higher mobility required for his waist. Another fun fact about softshell is that they don’t actually have scutes or scales, but because of the look of his plastron and consistency with his brothers in the show, I’m just going to pretend that Draxum mixed in some DNA to let him grow scales for extra protection even if he has less coverage than his brothers. He can “breathe” water by absorbing oxygen through the skin of his throat, not actually by inhaling it. While most turtles can do this to a point, soft shells can stay quite active while doing so.

Personally I like to think of Donnie’s softshell as both a weakness and a strength depending on the situation! While more vulnerable, his skin can heal faster than scutes, and if he sustains blunt damage to his shell he can more easily disperse the force of it because of the give to his cartilage, rather than have the force crack his shell and cause a much more traumatic injury. Kind of like how seatbelts have some give to them to ease into a stop instead of giving someone whiplash.

Just some personal head canons! Feel free to disagree or expand upon :)

[General][Raph][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

Raphael skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Turtle shells are really funky, and in real life turtles, their shoulders and hips are actually fused to the shell and form immobile shoulder and pelvic girdles. Their scapula (shoulder blades) therefore are pushed almost fully downwards to give turtle arms that elbow up look. Most of their muscles are attached via ligaments to their plastron and limbs, with their large neck muscles reaching back along their spine with very minimal muscles on their sides or back.

Because of how funky their bones are, I tried to find a good middle ground between the brothers’ humanoid shape and mobility vs. their original species limitations. Their shoulders are very human, with their collarbone instead connecting to the top of their plastron rather than a sternum (flat bone in the middle of the ribs) with the addition of their shoulder blades resting much lower than a humans and protecting the open space in the armpit of their shell (rather than being set on their back under their carapace). Their necks can stretch slightly longer than a humans and have some extra mobility, on account of how they usually sit curved and tucked into their shoulders. Their pelvises and lumbar vertebrae (hips and lower back) are not fused to their shell to enable them to twist their torsos some.

As for how flexible the show depicts their shells to be… suspension of disbelief! I like to keep the idea of their shells being turtle like, so even though they’re all bone, I’ll allow cartoon physics to bend them some.

Additional info on Raph: The spikes on his shell are mostly bone. Also (something I didn’t draw because it was only after I finished this that I was able to find a picture of an alligator snapper shell bone without its scutes) there are small gaps between his pleural bone plates (middle of shell) and his peripheral bone plates (edges of shell). The scar on his shell is probably from a bone deep injury, as broken scutes shed away, but because scars don’t grow with a person, the injury is small enough that it probably happened so long ago that Raph can’t even remember it.

This is all just my speculation, so feel free to disagree or expand upon these ideas!

[General][Donnie][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

Ok but what if they DEFEAT the Krang in their 20s and rebuild the world all solarpunk and they are happy

I saw those Leo designs where his markings were like running off his head and thought that’d be fun to do and then in relation i unintentionally made usagi so very much more plain, well that and I struggled for an hour to draw his hands before giving up, but it’s okay cuz i still think he’s awesome

A bonus doodle

You might have seen the cover art I sketched for @plothooksinc's fic Infinite Ricochet a couple days ago. I wanted to clean it up a bit, so here's a more refined version 😄

There was actually one more draft I did between the first and this final one, in which I tried a tighter composition and pushed the perspective more. It lost some of the eerie atmosphere though, so I wasn't as happy with it. You can check it out under read more, if you're curious!

Chicken!!!

Does anybody else do this

I realized that I never posted all of these as a set, so here you go! I think they look so good together!

Edit: Link to the fic!

Turtles Together Zine

leftover sale for @turtlestogetherzine has begun, check it out! turtleszine.bigcartel.com

Close ups below ⬇️

🔷🟪🟠🟥🔶

TMayNT

Day 22: Fav turtle duo

Day 23: Fav human ally

Day 26: Fav series

Day 27: Fav mutant/alien villain

Drawing every day made me very tired, so I made a drawing combining 4 daily themes

Third week entry for @tmntfashioncompetition! The theme is “Heroes and Villains” so this time TC Foot Captain is cosplaying Doc Ock. The outfit is inspired from spiderverse but I love the claws design from the movie so I combined them.

Going against @tangledinink this time so wish us luck!

Brb crying about future turtles ;;;;

Don's silly overalls. Raph's prosthetic arm that Leo later inherits. Raph's pretty eyelashes...!

(first time I'm drawing any of them, wooo!)

Me? Drawing backgrounds? unbelievable.

This is for a larger animation project I'm working on where I am animating on fully rendered backgrounds. This was just the opening shot :') Strapping in for the long ride now.

i have a little thing i've been working on, it's a rottmnt x dinos au thingy!! i got some concept designs for the turtles so here they are

it's still in heavy development but i thought i'd share! i love them dearly grrr

also mandatory apology: i messed raph up big time and i'm so so sorry about that ueueueue

uh SIZE DIFFERENCES!!

and some FUN FACTS!!

Raph n Mikey like to occasionally bump their heads together as a kind of love language

Leo takes great pride in his feathers and sometimes grooms them for hours until they're "perfect"

Donnie had an accident as a tot, hence resulting in a bare back where his feathers cannot regrow (he's very insecure about it)

Sometimes Raph accidentally knocks things over with his tail cuz he's very clumsy with it (it's okay tho)

When upset, Mikey tends to hit his head against a wall in his room to blow off steam (said wall has several cracks in it)

also another neat detail!

Raph, Mikey and Leo all have beaks, only Donnie doesn't

and you know whyyyy??

because softshell turtles don't have beaks either!! see what i did there?? yeah

a fan work of a fan work?? infinite fan works i presume!! was so inspired by @ruija ‘s animatic of @remedyturtles “firefight” that i had to edit it. all credits go to both of them and i hope it’s ok that i made this ahh!!! i feel like two birds by regina spektor really encapsulates the whole vibe of firefight. PLEASE go read firefight by remrose on ao3 and go watch the animatic on youtube!!! ruija dreampool!!! also tcest dni thank u!!!

Heaving, pt. 2

Pt.1

Obligatory funny edit to ease you

Some words needed to be changed to make sense, so hopefully that doesn't bother any of you 🙏

So I was inspired while rewatching TMNT ‘03…

Thought I’d give a try at doing my own take on a mutant turtle design, combining the elements of each iteration that I’ve seen with some more animalistic turtle traits. Hope they look alright! The turtles themselves are the 2003 ones, I always thought it was a little odd they had no bridge on their shells. I did keep the three fingered hand in later sketches tho!

Poor 2003 Leo. Guy can never catch a break.

Still thinking about brand new mutated Dad Splinter figuring out the dynamics between his children. It wasn't until I was lining some of this that I realized the unintentional angst in this cute comic, because Splinter seeing how distraught Leo and Donnie are at being separated would hit a little too close to home for him.

Wow, animation!! I like storm chasing a normal amount…

shenanigans w/ @tinyghostotus lmao

a little comic about migraine twins! - part 1

(part 2)

*the photo Dee’s talking about is a little throwback to my Baby Blue comic, which you can read here.

also here’s the context!

So mm... I and @kathaynesart started a new AU out of our own au that came out of the @tmntfashioncompetition, we couldn't help it when we saw the misfits in a 80's fashion from different spectrums

So we decided to call it Lethal Ninpo AU, we will be for sure going more into this direction

Them✨

Some turtles!! I am still working on their individual designs.