Thank you so much for reading all the way through.
Tomorrow is my last Dec drawing, and i think I'll focus on writing again in January <3
A small note of thanks to everyone who encouraged me to draw every day of this month, even on the days that i couldn't be social- and a special thanks to @kiku91 and @douchegrayson for being a large part of why i wanted to attempt a children's mini-storybook for the very first time ;u;
Hope yall be having as much of a great time as Mikey enjoying the snow~
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Wish I could've posted more but my health's made it though at the moment! Looking like a dumbass walking around with tissues in my nose cuz of all the random nosebleeds~
I participated in the TMNT Pit’s Secret Santa this year! This art was made for @ninjastar-ace
The prompt was: Raph getting decorated like a Christmas tree by one or more of his brothers
And initially I wasn’t 100% sure iteration this was indicating, and had a brain fart moment forgetting there was a way to ask questions without ruining the surprises, but I figured “yes Rise Raph is tall as a tree, but also 03 Raph got a growth spurt as was taller than the others at the end of the series.” And thus, the prompt developed the additional detail of being a contest between two iterations.
This took more than 10 hours to complete, and mostly because this was the first time I drew the 2003 turtles in a serious manner. (Doodling for daycare kids at work in 2014 doesn’t count cause it wasn’t serious.)
At the end of it all, I wanted to make sure they were at least recognizable and posing in a way that felt believable. 03 Leo was originally questioning whether it was cheating that Raph had more space for ornaments, and the decorations were going to be a lot more extravagant, but I was running out of time and squeezed the Christmas part of the picture in the last two hours.
I certainly had a lot of fun, even when I was holding my head wondering what I got myself into. Looking forward to next years celebration!
"But his weaknesses were compensated by his ravens, Huginn (mind) and Muninn (memory) who were part of him.
They perched on his shoulders and reconnoitered to the ends of the earth each day to return in the evening and tell him the news."
- Heinrich (2006 [1999]: 355)
Someday i'll write a story about these two, and slip in mythical references between them and Draxum... I've just got to force my fingers to WORK WITH ME and update my two long stories first ;-; hauuurgh
I'M JUST GONNA ANSWER BOTH OF THESE AT ONCE BECAUSE I LOVE YOU ;u;
I completely forgot that I had told you guys my birthday months ago, so your messages were such a surprise to me <3 thank you for the well wishes, I'm blasting you guys back with the same energy
I really don't celebrate my birthday all that much but i'm gonna put your birthday thanks into my little scrapbook of lovely things okay?