#tmnt fanwork fanart

[frogonamelon]

A bored Odachi! Leo attempting to serenade (while they're in the middle of an infiltration mission). He doesn't quite have the all the lyrics memorized so it's only been the first couple of lines and the chorus.

He will get to tell off Shredder on his fashion sense when they're all caught. Suffice it to say, 12!Leo will never get away with stealth again in a situation that is not actively life threatening.

@sweeneydino's Hamato Weapons au is pure serotonin. The idea of the interactions between the Turtles & Karai and their sentient weapons is unbelievably funny.

Translation because my handwriting is bad:

~ I like your style, babe

You gotta believe ~

~You're so good good good

You got the goods~

[bikelaned]

@tangledinink's SWANATELLO!! HE'S SO, YOU DON'T EVEN UDNERSTAND, HE'S SO SILLY OH SO SILLY!!

[sunatoona]

I swear my artstyle changes everytime I draw something 😭

[chaos-potat]

Last Halloween post I swear

What a strange encounter that Mikey will think about for a long time and never tell anyone haha

Continued

[liketheletter-l]

HAD TO draw Him from @cupcakeslushie 's separated au. ain't nothing better than a donatello who has something seriously wrong with him <3 <3 <3

[masonhasbean]

My Zombie Apocalypse boys (affectionately dubbed 'freckle duo') meet @cupcakeslushie 's E.W. boys.

This is no propaganda for anything, i just wanted to draw slushie's boys with mine :D Live Laugh Love EW

(If you're wondering why my Donnie looks a little funny, he got infected don't worry about it >:))

[acey-waceyy123]

more tnv for the soul

@sugarpasteltmnt is the creator of the neon void!!! (Please go read it omg)

(also I’m sorry I keep @ you☠️☠️ I just fucking love this little idiot)

[teainthesnow]

anyway I'm still having emotions about the Cass Apocalyptic series by @somerandomdudelmao so I needed to colour this scene

[merakimagic]

I refuse to give any context to this except

Swanatello AU by @tangledinink 💫😋

[tangledinink]

Hey actually sent this earlier but I realised that I had left out part of the leg😂

Can’t wait to see more of this Beauty💕

Hope you like the fanart🤗 you really are so talented!

[rainyraisin]

Reticent!Don casually having NO social skills

I really went “omigosh, Sep!Don and Reticent!Don both wear overalls!!!” And then that somehow turned into this jhkjhgjhhkhjb

I want to draw them both properly at some point but I couldn’t think of any poses lmao (and I also don’t want to butcher Sep!Don hijhgjhgj)

@cupcakeslushie ‘s Sep!au has taken over my brain sm over the last 6 months that I subbed to the Patreon and I will never regret that choice cause more Donnie content hehe 💪💪💪

[the-lavender-clown]

Fool’s Gold AU

Fanfics

The Price of Ambition

Fanwork 🥺: fluffyyyfrog9000 (reunion drabble)

Art

Illustrations: The Breadwinners/AU Synopsis | Donnie and Casey Jr Illustration | Shelldon Doodle page | Donnie and Casey Sr Illustration (“Surprise!” Addition) | Babyifed Shelldon | Augustine and Shelldon (not canon)

Fanart 🥺: lizaaardstuff (Donnie) | lizaaardstuff (Shelldon)

TMNT Muliverse Election 2024 Propaganda: Introduction | Showdown One | Vice President Announcement | Showdown Two

Spotify Playlist

[ruija]

A trip down memory lane - TMNT 2003

So. The 20th anniversary of 2003 Ninja turtles was a little while ago, but I didn’t have time to draw anything for it 👉👈💦 BUT, I wanted to do SOMETHING for it, even a bit late. 

For context, TMNT 2003 was my introducion to the franchise. Back when it started airing, I was 9yo and was immediately hooked. I think it’s the series/fandom that has stuck with me the strongest across the years. Even if I’d have long periods, even couple year brakes from it, I always dip back at some point. Usually it’d happen by me suddenly having a dream about the turtles, and then going like “Oh, is it that time again? Guess I’ll go check some fanworks, then.” ANYWAY, I thought it’d be fun to dig up some old art and do some redrawing hehheh. Hopefully yall find these somewhat entertaining, I’ve been equal parts cackling and cringing lmao!

Here we have THE FIRST EVER Leonardo I’ve ever drawn! (Made when I was 9) I’m honestly very charmed and kinda impressed by it. Like, he looks really funky and dynamic! That pose and the way the bandanna tails are flying adds really nice movement and energy to the drawing! It was really fun to use it as a base, because the elements of it were already working well!

Also there’s Splinter I drew around that same time. He also has a lot of funny personality haha! (Sorry Splints for being too lazy to redraw you)

(More art and reminiscing under read more!)

BY THE WAY. I’m FUCKING DEVASTATED that I was not able to find a third drawing I remember from this period. It featured Splinter being drunk while Leo looks on horrified. Why? I don’t know. Little Ruija thought it was really funny I guess. Anyway, here’s an imitation piece for demonstration:

Truly shocking. Bad Parent Splinter AU? (I have a suspicion the original is MIA, because I got too embarrassed by it at some point. But I will not lose hope, maybe it’ll turn up someday🙏)

I think the next time I drew fanart of ninja nurtles was when I was 11-12yo and joined Devianart. The account I used to have doesn’t exist anymore, so I wasn’t able to recover files from that time. My only hope is to come across some originals in my old art folders  💦 💦 I have really fond memories from that time. Was quite active in the Sonic and TMNT fandom.

This was drawn when I was 13, I think. I’m sensing... a bit of a fictional crush there. And- Wait a minute. Is that...? ENHANCE

DONNIE?!

Biblically accurate recreation.

Karai from same time period. It’s probably a lesser known fact, that in several iterations, she’s usually among my fave characters.

Grumpy Raph my beloved! This is from when I was 14. Those thighs are tragically skinny! This obviously had to be rectified.

Somewhere in the 14-15yo range. I think I had already picked up a special fondness for Leo+Mikey dynamic <3

And then... I got kind of a whiplash when this piece jumped out from my folders:

What a weird experience. I guess this particular visual spoke to me even 13 years ago.

Well, here’s another one to the pile.

Last piece has a bit of a timeskip! It’s from 2013 ( I was 18yo) and the original post is actually on this blog!

I’ve actually been wanting to redraw this piece anyway, but with my HC of Donnie being really tall, haha. (I keep squinting at Leo and how he turned out very femme in this... Oh well, he/she’s just rocking some transswag)

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PHEW! This was fun! Made me feel extremely fond, thinking about how excited my younger selves would be to see these redrawings haha.

Earlier I said I didn’t have any works archived from my old DA account, but surprisingly I had a couple screenshots like this:

Back then (2005-2007 in this case) personal websites were common, including ones dedicated to fandom-content. A Japanese tmnt fan going by Sakan-san also had one called FREAKfreak. (She was also on DA) Her art was gorgeous and I thought she was like the best and coolest tmnt artist ever. 

Her webpage had this PAINTchat on it and both Japanese and Western fans would gather there to draw together. Sakan-san would often post the collabs in her gallery afterwards. There were a couple times I was able to join a session with them too, which I was over the moon about! (In the screenshot the bottom right segment was mine lol). It was really cool, that they included a novice artist with extremely broken english amongst them.

Seeing these screenshorts made me remember how much I admired Sakan-san and wanted to draw like her. And then realizing, that now I can✨

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Another memorable interaction from that time is when I was chatting with some older fans. By the time I got on DA, my country had only dubbed and aired the first two seasons of the 2003 series. I kept seeing fanart of Leo with his shellscar and got curious. I asked the others where he gets it.

They told me he put dynamite on it.

And then said it’s better if I go watch the episodes myself. Fortunately I was able to find and watch rest of the series after that, haha.

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Maybe that’s enough reminiscing for now! Thanks for the company and all the lovely memories TMNT 2003 <3

I hope you all can also keep creating and having fun within this fandom, for years to come!  💙❤️💜🧡💚

[untitled-tmnt-blog]

Fanart of Other People's Stuff Masterpost

Collection of things made for other people's TMNT fanworks. Includes both finished art, and practice/sketches.

Dandylovesturtles

I May Be Invisible, But I Still Look Good

Brothers breaking the curse

Drive out of the desert

Invisible Animatic (+ WIP GIF, + partial GIFs)

Risetober Day 4: Amulet

Risetober Day 13/21: Witch + Ghost

Hardcover book

100 Feet and a World Away

Ficlet sketches

Sidelined AU

Leo's command center + physical therapy

Emotional Support Water Bottles

Leo is in a room

Fic collage

Pen Sketch Quotes

Misc. Ficlets

Love you too, Leo

Starrcrossrose

The Aftermath

Leo's breakdown

Eternalglitch

Like Father Like Son

Risetober Day 8: Green

Vangh17a

Wanderer

Risetober Day 12: Video Game

1 Year DTIYS

Intotheelliwoods

2 Arms Left

2AL DTIYS

Poptart and Sprout Plushies

Watercolor Pen Practice

Sprout-is-Sad.gif

Trick or Treat Phone Doodle

Phoebepheebsphibs

Hide and Seek

Thank you, Mama

Hide and Seek Animatic

Until I Found You

Rise August Day 11: Mud Dogs

2K DTIYS

Kittynomore

Snapper Lou AU

Secret santa animation

Feral babies ask

Remedyturtles

Firefight

Hiding from Prime

Protective Donnie

Chocolate Covered Bananas

Chapter 40 Quotes

The Shadows May Go

Because I Love You

Tizeline

Tiz Sep AU

8K DTIYS

Exhaustedwriterartist

CTIYS

Whale Shark Hugs (Artfight 2024)

Nyaboshi

Pier (Artfight 2024)

Superfruitland

Live Life

Live Life 1-Year DTIYS

Kiaxet

Siblingquest 202X

Rise August Day 12: Big Mama's Assistant

Kathaynesart

Replica

Replica 20K DTIYS

Daflangstlairde-art

Lightning in our Fingertips Today

Rise August Day 24: Secrets

Attached, severed (you're here, you're not)

Wrong (cw: strangulation)

Turtle and the Fox

Kappa and Fennec

Trilobitepunch

Fang AU

1k DTIYS

Misc. / Multiple

Rise AU Lantern (Swanatello, 2AL, CAS, Replica)

Art Marker Practice (2AL, True Colors, Until I Found You)

More Art Marker Practice (Kid Leo, Wanderer)

[genius--built]

Directory!

hi, welcome to my TMNT blog! I'm mainly into Rise, but I may repost other TMNT fanworks too. this blog will sometimes feature 18+ content, which I will try to tag accordingly for your filtering needs.

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Important Links:

my gen AO3 (AideStar)

my 18+ AO3 (Genius_Built)

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writing tag: #aide writes

art tag: #aide draws

asks & misc tag: #aide screams

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conniving & vicious tag: #conniving & vicious au

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general permissions info: if you are inspired by any original posts on this blog or any drawings, AUs, or fics I write, you have full permission to create fanworks inspired by them! that includes prequels, sequels, deleted scenes, headcanons, AUs, fanfics, podfocs, translations, and fanart! you don’t have to ask permission, but if you do create something that I helped inspire I would be thrilled if you shared it with me :D it makes my day to get comments and asks from you all, but when I also get fan creations? I basically combust with excitement!! so please send me a link, tag me on your post, or link my fic to your fic on AO3 with the “inspired by” function! I love seeing your work and I’d love to support it!

[drawnaghht]

hmm so last week i was trying to think of why it might be that ppl suddenly started shipping Rise Leo and Yuichi Usagi (a "never met" crossover ship) when the Usagi Chronicles series was teased in 2021* and I think it might just be because it's so easy to change this iteration of both the ship and characters - a lot of the appeal of fanworks these days is full bespoke fan AUs and redesigns.

so I think this Usagi was just easier to sorta project new ideas onto, since he doesn't come with 35+ years of comics history. He's like a clean slate. especially if folks don't watch/don't care to look into the series.

which I kinda get, from an artistic perspective, creative endevours are always more fun if they're new and something you can make your own, right? or at least that's one possible aspect (of both this and fanworks in general)

but from a fannish perspective, my brain is also going like, "oh noo, my blorbo..." xD

and it's also a bit sad that folks ignore the og comic completely in some cases or just, don't look into it out of interest at all lol. I guess I kinda get that too, sometimes in some areas of the world, comics are really hard to get by and maybe some are like me, who want to read them on paper. It might also just be that older comics are unappealing to younger fans (?) but that would wholly be an assumption, since we don't really know all the reasons other people don't get interested in things like comics. I doubt many Rise fans have read the og TMNT comics either (it's fine, cuz again, younger audience + that's sorta the point various animated series sometimes - to get the new audience into the old comics - and sometimes it doesn't go like that)

the other thing is also that technically, Yuichi Usagi seems to be like the Gaumont/Netflix crew's way of making like a fun fanwork in the form of Samurai Rabbit: the Usagi Chronicles. Many of the project leads were fans of Usagi Yojimbo and even some of the voice actors had read the comics as kids or had seen Usagi in the old TMNT series (from the SDCC interview with Stan and crew). Boy even has the Stan Sakai signature under his shoes, lol x3 So he is in some way already a fan-character and has a lot of those "new character" features that might be appealing to some (the hair and clothes are very "generic modern boy") and appealing to change drastically as well.

but anyway, yeah like... I've been around fandoms for a long while so I don't mind much that people are gonna have different tastes abt fanworks and how to write characters, etc. Everybody ships their niche ships differently. it's just interesting to think about, cuz there's so many ways to make fanworks in general and so many ways to define fandom or fandom ships and so on. like it's just something interesting I realized while having a bus ride.

*you can correct me on when the leochi/leochi ship became popular and when people started properly watching the SRTUC series, at least going by tumblr tags (more reliable than twitter, for tags at least) and I'll make any corrections about the timeline of tags here on tumblr xD Going back through the tumblr tag for "leosagi" and "leoichi" you can see a sort of a sharp drop in old leosagi "content" (fanart, fic, posts etc) and then the new stuff, mixed in with various fan designs for a Rise!version of Miyamoto Usagi and other designs and ideas. but I think there needs to be some sorta archive blog for this cuz honestly, going through the tumblr tags without a pages system is... so annoying xD Like I am not in university anymore so I don't feel like doing this sorta stuff (archiving by screenshots or by reblogs) but dang.... sorta feels like this would be nice to have lol