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I actually drew this like 2 years ago but it still kinda slaps tbh. I might post more of my old art that I still like, or maybe even redraw some of it

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This was mostly anatomy and shading practice but it turned out really well. Honestly I’m really happy that I can represent the body types I imagine my characters with more accurately now

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Trying so so hard to get back into art, turns out drawing hot people cures me

(The tattoos are placeholders because if I have to design a tattoo right now I Will throw up)

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This took me forever and I’m now past the raffle deadline, but I did this 5k dtiys by @tangledinink! College has been kicking my ass but I’ve been wanting to draw these guys so bad- hopefully I’ll be able to get more art done now that I’m dying a little bit less

Yet again used my TMNH designs because I’m allergic to drawing turtles, sorry lads. Ik them being human doesn’t really make sense in canon so ig just pretend the TMNH guys are cosplaying the Gemini if you want this image to make sense lmao

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Since I finished the TMNH lads’ designs, I made a banner! This is also probably a good time to mention that I’m planning to make a comic with these guys. I’ll be starting with their origin story, but I have a lot of ideas outside of that too!

Edit 2024: Unfortunately, school kinda squashed me and I lost interest in this as a project. So sorry to anyone who was interested. I’ll likely be re-using these character designs in other projects in the future though, I adore them

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Last TMNH design! Raphael my beloved! I adore transfem Raph headcanons but I don’t see a lot of people make her butch, so I’m going that direction in my AU. I need to draw her in some of the Clothes Don’t Make The Turtle outfits so bad.

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More TMNH designs! This time it’s Mikey Angelo! Probably the time to clarify that the outfits I’ve been drawing are what they wear when they’re ninja-ing. Around the house and out on the town, it’s a different story (one that I’ll definitely draw sometime).

But yeah, Mikey’s always read to me as someone who’d have a funky gender, so I thought I’d go hard in that direction because people with weird ass genders are so cool (this is incredibly genuine). Please do your best to use suns pronouns when referring to TMNH Mikey! And when it comes to gendered terminology (guy, brother, queen, etc) just alternate as much as possible, I think being an enigma gives pal euphoria.

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More TMNH designs! This time it’s Mikey Angelo! Probably the time to clarify that the outfits I’ve been drawing are what they wear when they’re ninja-ing. Around the house and out on the town, it’s a different story (one that I’ll probably draw sometime).

But yeah, Mikey’s always read to me as someone who’d have a funky gender, so I thought I’d go hard in that direction because people with weird ass genders are so cool (this is incredibly genuine). Please do your best to use suns pronouns when referring to TMNH Mikey! And when it comes to gendered terminology (guy, brother, queen, etc) just alternate as much as possible, I think being an enigma gives pal euphoria.

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More TMNH design stuff! Decided that Donnie needed more tech on him and tweaked his colors. He doesn’t exactly have a soft shell in this AU so he mostly just wears this as armor/a backpack. Ik the space looks way too small to fit much but it’s a Mary Poppins situation in there dw about it

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Time for gayboy supreme! I’m definitely going back and reworking Donnie’s TMNH design now because Leo’s turned out so much better lmao

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Did @pinetreevillain ‘s 40k DTIYS with my TMNH Donnie because I tried to draw him as a turtle and. Yeah there’s a reason I only draw people whoops

This was really fun though!! The pose and the shoes fucking killed me but overall this is a win. I love drawing characters looking batshit insane I need to do it more often lmao

(I know this is being hosted elsewhere but unfortunately I’m allergic to instagram)

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More stuff for the TMNH designs! I’ve decided that Donnie has scoliosis because I wanted to translate his soft shell (which can be interpreted as a back-related deformity/disability) into this design. Also don’t ask how his headphone/goggles contraption works I have no clue lmao

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Starting to work on my own human AU, specifically one where Yokai and Mutants don’t exist, but Mystics/Magic do. I have a lot of ideas for it, so you’ll probably be seeing a lot more content for it in the future even if it’s kinda just concept art rn! It’ll be under the tag “tmnh” or “teenage mystic ninja humans”

Anyways I decided to give all the kids gold accents, both to unify their designs somewhat and to hint at their carapaces, but now TMNH Donnie’s colors are JUST the non binary pride flag and honestly I’m not mad at all. He’s autistic a weird gender is practically a given

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April!! She’s very fun to draw, good shapes

Couldn’t keep the red lipstick in my art style because it made her look like a pretentious aunt somehow