Story time: made this piece with an old friend in mind. They had one of those almost photo-realistic art styles and we would respectfully hype up each other’s art
People thought it was weird that they would find interest in my cartoonish style if they already themselves had such an advanced one
But peeps got to remember despite your differences, we’re all still artists and just vibing to our own interests and skills・:*+.
Took one of our conversations as inspo and inserted it - song used is “Blue Boy” by Mac DeMarco
It's here! The beginning of the fancomic that I've been making for a few months now. I started planning this thing almost a year ago, and I am so excited to finally be sharing it. I'll make a proper dedicated side-blog for it later.
what IS the constant feed? i've been imagining just something like static and white noise that just drives him crazy, but i gotta know what it actually is
It’s a constant feed of his family being awful to him. It starts pretty mild.
Mikey making a joke that’s less funny, and more hurtful.
Splinter telling Donnie to be useful and fix something.
April telling him she’s through with pretending he doesn’t drive her mad.
Leo blaming Donnie for his tech getting in the way.
Raph furious because it’s Donnie’s fault that one of their brothers got hurt.
And it just repeats with different scenarios, all varying in intensity, until Donnie can’t remember who’s said what and is just left with the knowledge that his entire family hates him. So when Kendra finally shows him this, it’s the final nail in the coffin.
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)