#teenage dinosaurs

[mesmoe-rizing]

~`•°🦕°•`~It's dino o'clock for this girlie~`•°🦕°•`~

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶That is not how that works! Dino plower!🎵

[princesskkfish]

I though it would be really funny to put Leo in a inflatable dinosaur costume for @tizeline DTIYS

Just look at him he’s so proud of himself

[heck-theo]

Okokokokok- ignore how rough and messy some of these redraws/sketches are - but it's apparently also dinosaur month?? (WHY did no one ever tell me it's Jurassic June? I love dinosaurs) And like. What if Rise but dinosaurs?!

I don't often post such loose sketches but I wanted to show these off cause I really like some of this.

Design choices and dino species + the reasons I picked them bellow (looking for potential Donnie dino suggestions):

Clothes: Without the shell they really need clothes. They'd all have pretty much the same pants to keep some unity, except maybe Mikey (I decided they should all have the same pants after I finished the Mikey sketches, not sure if I'll keep the shorts or change to pants). Accessories are a mix of pre and post finale.

Raph - I think would keep it simple and practical but would also wear nice jackets and stuff when in casual situations. I need to work on giving him an alternative outfit and tweak his accessories a bit.

Donnie - An oversized pull-over hoodie cause we already know he loves that shit. We see him wearing it all the time. Easy enough. He wears a comfortable singlet underneath so the straps of his battle sail don't rub. Nice soft fabric, tight fit so it doesn't move around, tucks it into his pants, etc. When he wears the battle sail he won't overheat so he can wear hoodies basically all year round.

Leo - He's in one of those shirts with obnoxiously large arm holes and make it cropped cause 1. I think he would 2. I want it to be different from Raph and Donnie's singlets. He usually wears the shoulder strap off his shoulder but pulls it up when he needs to. He has some of the black bandages over his mid drift atm but I might just make his pants super high waisted in the final version. He'd probably wear a bomber jacket (also cropped?) over the top for cool weather, but doesn't like to hide his feathers.

Mikey - I think he'd mostly wear hand me downs when he's younger. He definitely goes through a stage of rebelling and wanting to pick his own and would find a middle ground of appreciating sharing some of his brother's clothes and modifying them, as long as he has the choice of his own available. Not sure if that would be before or after this design. At the moment he's got Raph's old shorts (from a loooong time ago), Leo's old shirt, and Donnie's old zip up hoodie. He does have his own accessories though, including pins instead of stickers.

Dinosaurs: I kept them all as non-avian dinosaurs, AKA not including animals that are colloquially considered dinos but aren't (like pterosaurs). I wanted to keep an even split of herbivore vs carnivore just so one wasn't the odd one out. I wanted to keep most of their body structure, colours and distinguishing features the same as canon. Obviously I added tails cause, yeah, of course haha. I did want them to be recognisable as different species of dino using distinct characteristics that their species is known for. I did ignore a lot of differences though, like size and bipedal vs quadruped (although the quadrupeds might be more likely to go to all fours, especially when fighting or afraid). Leo and Donnie are carnivores so have sharper teeth and claws.

Raph - Some kind of Ceratopsian (likely Triceratops or something very similar) and he was the first idea I had for this and I'm really happy with it. I think it just suits him. Trike Raph just came to me in an unprecedented moment of genius. His spikey frill replicates his spikey shell. His sturdiness, protectiveness and willingness to kick ass when needed, all scream trike to me.

Donnie - Spinosaurus but looking for other species recommendations. More details below: So I wanted to figure out a way for him to have tech with a similar function to his battle shell (in the sense that it's something that helped him in day to day life) and so I went with spino cause one possible theory about a function of spinosaurus' sail is temperature regulation. So his battle sail has heating/cooling systems as well as other tech. A spino's sail was probably not fragile but the battle sail would also help protect it from being targeted during fights or crushed during extreme impacts. It was also thought to be used for display, and what's more of a display than a battle sail? The only problem I have with this is that it's lacking part of what makes Donnie's battle shell so great, which is that it is essentially a prosthetic. Not quite the same as how prosthetics are used in people of course, just in the sense that it is replicating the functionality of a body part that he doesn't have (I can't think of a better word). Well he does have a shell but it doesn't function in the same way that his brothers shells do, which leaves him with less defense than they have, hence a big reason for the battle shell (I hope I explained this well, it was hard to try and word properly). I can't think of a good way to do this with dinos. I was thinking of a carno or something with tiny arms, then Donnie could have tech enhanced arms but I'm pretty much ignoring body structure in the others so it would be weird to have just Donnie be affected by a difference in limb structure/functionality. I was thinking prosthetic tail but every non avian dinosaur had a pretty substantial tail. Except therizinosaurus but even they hade pretty obvious tails. I'm open to suggestions for this one if anyone has ideas. It does have to be an extinct non-avian dinosaur (anything not in Avialae), preferably carnivore but if someone suggests a really good herbivore or omnivore then I can try and swap Mikey for a carnivore. I want there to be an even split. I also wanted to give him something different on his face, like his brothers, and that could only be a little spino crest and it crowds the top of his head but I can't put it anywhere else...

Leo - A type of Dromaeosaur. I was tossing up between this and a dilophosaur where his red stripes were part of the dilo's crest, cause I wasn't sure about giving him feathers. But dilo Leo was so plain compared to the rest and the crests were hard to get looking right so I went back to raptor Leo. I can definitely imagine him literally and metaphorically preening his feathers too. You can't really see it but he does also have that big raptor claw. Raptors were smart, tactical and worked in packs so I think that suits him. I wasn't specifically referencing how some artists draw Leo's stripes coming off his face (I was just trying to replicate his stripes somehow, even though it doesn't make a huge amount of sense) but I realised afterwards that it kinda looks like that and might have been subconsciously inspired by it.

Mikey - Is an Ankylosaur. I'm pretty happy with the species but I need to work out the design of his armour plating so that it looks interesting, cool and protective but isn't too chunky, too pointy or super lumpy looking. I went with an anky cause Mikey is often hiding in his shell and he can't do the same here but he could curl up in a defensive ball. Plus I could imagine him using his tail club in his razzmatazz fighting style. A little like his kusari-fundo or nunchacku/nunchucks (not sure on proper wording).

[jazzymarie1006]

Same!!!!

[peteneems]

[green--tea-owo]

things i could talk about for HOURS:

[picturejasper20]

How do guys call these shows that have this highly stylish animated style that is often inspired by anime but the designs and direction are more western cartoon?

[oldschoolfrp]

Time Travel Ninja Turtle Style -- Ad for Transdimensional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a 1989 sourcebook for the TMNT RPG by Palladium Books, with James Lawson art (in Dragon magazine 145, May 1989)

[shadowpuppetteer]

Ghostbusters

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

What We Do In The Shadows

Gargoyles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

American Dragon Jake Long

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

(and pretty much the rest of the Marvel Universe) Ok, is there a name for this trope of urban fantasy being specifically located in New York? #locationstropes

[puma-or-cougar]

OMG DOES ANYONE REMEMBER HALF SHELL HEROES? Because I do, in fact, I just watched the episodes last night. I always thought that a Pteranodon was a little small for Raph, maybe a Quetzal or a Haztego would have been a better fit for him since they are larger flying reptiles, HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that I haven't fallen in love with this duo.

Sooo cuteee

Wait!

On another note, I have a question, does anyone know if Tumblr has a problem with mild blood or gore? I would really appreciate an answer since I'm working on something that I'm really excited to post here.

[filledmouth]

weight of a dead world

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Jim Henson

[bellamer]

Girl centric shows that could have benefited from having an episode about menstruation and some of my ideas add on if you have more

Kim Possible

The Proud Family

My Life as A Teenage Robot, mostly Jenny wanting to bond with her female human classmates and her being jealous and wanting a period too and Nora installs a program for that’ll give her a monthly “cycle” and she realizes it sucks and wants it taken out

As Told By Ginger, maybe Ginger getting her first period and she’s embarrassed about it after bleeding out in class or something until Courtney offers her a pad in the bathroom and they bond and even Miranda bonds with her a little because Ginger, Courtney and Miranda are synched up and hang out for the week and Dodie gets jealous and fakes her period to try to fit in with the cool girls in an attempt to be popular but gets found out

Braceface, if they didn’t already have one, they had an episode about being insecure about boobs, they should have a period episode

Moon Girl could have used one

6teen could have used one if they didn’t have one already

Girl shows I think shouldn’t ever have one:

Miraculous Ladybug, they’d akumatize someone having cramps and would turn them into the “Crampinator” or some shit we don’t need it

Totally Spies, initially I thought they’d benefit from it but they’d figure out how to make it weird so no

[kurtmustdie]

ive never played deltarune

[jazzymarie1006]

No thoughts, just five pairings I absolutely adore.