I had so much of a blast with this piece. I was definitely on that “do art well and feel happy about it” juice hard. This is even one of the few backgrounds I’ve done without a headache, which is funny because I didn’t even plan for it.
I had a great time working with you, thank you so much for the opportunity <3
Well. Every tmnt artist has to turn them into humans eventually, I suppose.
Sorry for not posting a ton lately, I have been................. playing fire emplem three houses.............. busy............ Also I've been feeling a little burned out on art, admitedly. Don't worry, it's very much temporary! Last month was just pretty high tempo for me, expecially with the Cell Talk comic, so I just needed to take a short break from drawing to also play fire emblem but I'm getting back into an art-mood now! I decided to draw humanified turtles as a bit of a warm up basically, I've been wanting to do it for quite some time so it was just a fun little thing for me :]
Anyway, some thoughts about the designs-
A lot of people draw Leo as blonde, and I was fully intending to draw him blonde as well, but then I just wanted to see what he'd look like with brown hair instead and I just.... liked that a bit more, so he's a brunette now. Also he has dimples because of course he has dimples. And Mikey has freckles because OF COURSE he has freckles! And Donnie ALSO has freckles because he's my blorbo and I give all my blorbos freckles cuz they're neat. All of them have pretty small eyebrows except for Donnie because he fills them in with makeup. I thought for a while of how I would translate Leo's facial markings into his human design, and I ended up settling for birthmarks (also some red eyeliner cuz his face needs a bit of red on it)
Albatross Cookie by design alone looks like the type of person to have ridiculously high standards and will not accept anything less than absolutely perfect.
He says he likes to run a tight ship. You do well, you get to enjoy the luxury of a 5 star cruise for a good week.
Fail?
Well... They don't talk about what happens when you perform poorly.
Xisuma and his dungeon lackey, who seems a bit too eager to lay his life on the line.
here's some close-ups!
tried a lot of new things with this one! the sketch was done traditionally, pencil on graph paper. I originally intended to line it traditionally too, but I finally got access to a drawing tablet again, and decided that I loved the idea too much, and wanted to give it a full digital render! so, i re-created a small piece of the frozen crypt in a creative world, which I then took a screenshot of with shaders, to help me with composition and lighting. I would later paint over it, though, my original intention was to just use the screenshot as the background :)
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I have lots to say about this drawing, if anyone is interested, so please feel free to send me an ask if you're curious about my process, or even if you just want to share your thoughts! :D i'm still pretty new here, and i like talking to people :)