My Neighbor TMNT AU

I love rottmnt and My Neighbor Totoro, so why not both?

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I made this for the 2021 style on the rise zine and then forgot to post it!!!! For two years!!! But we are here now! and I have a friend (shoutout to @minnow-doodle-doo ) encouraging me to post it (so thank her if you like the pic because I was ready to just let it sit in the computer file forever) 

I spent forever making this thing (I deleted the lineart for the background on accident and had to redo all of it) SO ENJOY!!!

Live laugh love --ya girl

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Hanging out with a friend and she let me draw stuff in the notebook app on her ipad. Very Fun but also very Ouch My Fingers.

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So anyways stan kid cosmic

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ITS ON NETFLIX GO WATCH IT

here’s a link to the trailer:

https://youtu.be/gBZ9UkhblkM

They also made a few shorts that are super cute aaaa

https://youtu.be/Y3mAFVewZgA

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Wow i really just can’t get enough of this guy

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Day 12: Arachnid

I mixed prompts because I wanted to draw a few things other than ninja turtles and then I ended up drawing ninja turtles anyway... :/

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Risetober day 10: family

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Figured that while I’m at it I might share a couple of the sketches i made for the pkmn au back in like...mid September? Yeah that plus one random page of turtles bcos why not. I left the rest of my sketches for this in my sketchbook at home :( but i remember i gave donnie a rotom and mikey that one hangry mouse pokemon agshdhdjs

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Risetober day 9: Shredder

Been thinking about that pkmn trainer au I spent a day making stuff for instead of doing my bio homework and!! Then this! Was wondering what type shredder would be like...dragon? Dark? Hmmmm...and then i was like oh. Steel/ghost. Duh lol

Ya so here shredder would be the legendary pkmn that team foot is collecting armor pieces to summon. :0

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Risetober day 8: Casey

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Risetober day 6: April

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I’m really feelin the donnie love in the club tonight with Risetober day 4!

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Risetober day 2: Leo

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Our Red Angel of Preventing Harm has a special appearance for Risetober day 2!

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Razzmatazz!! Here’s a Mikey for Risetober day one!

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Here’s a progress clip in the form of a terrible quality GIF because I’m absolutely horrible with computers and this is the best I could figure out lol.

On the bright side I just learned how to put the little read more function in on Tumblr so I have a couple better quality individual pics below the cut along with what’s basically the first draft of my autobiography bcos damn do I ramble.

Warning for an infodump sorry guys this is practically a novel. I keep remembering stories that happened while I was drawing. 

Here’s this bad boy I sketched in my org chem class bcos drawing helps me alleviate the incredible strain of having to sit still and pay attention for an entire hour. I was like haha wow! This looks cool! I should totally finish this!! 

That was in March. 

I started coloring this in when I went on a trip with friends to a cabin on a lake. I had to color it in with my fingers because I’m constantly losing my art pen or forgetting to put in new batteries. Since we’re all dumb teenagers there was booze every night. I’m not a huge fan of the taste of alcohol and already have terrible impulse control so I’d chill and draw instead of drinking. One of our friends is Muslim tho so at least I had a sober buddy. :P

It still absolutely sucked tho drunk people are annoying and they smell terrible and they throw up they’re like giant children but like not cute. I ended up locking myself up in my room to keep out the smell, putting on some music, and reading The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks just to cope. Good book by the way. It’s basically the world building he did to make World War Z. 

Little skip ahead and a color change. Still using precious little references because I only get super motivated to draw when I don’t have internet. I seem to have accidentally earned the respect of my 11 yr old cousin, as he says this picture is “okay” but sits down next to me to watch every time I draw. I showed him the Mystic Library episode, and then eventually got him to watch a pretty big chunk of the series with me. He says he likes the show but that the intro theme is kinda cringey and seems too much like a kids cartoon. 

....it IS a kids cartoon??? Also bro ur like eleven you ARE a kid.

I am super proud of the detail I put into this book when I finally hunted down a reference. I cannot even tell you how much time I have spent just flicking between the progress pics so I made yall a gif because I just learned how. 

85% of the shadows in this piece I made by airbrushing and then erasing bits. Gotta say I freaking love drawing shadows like this 10/10 can and will do again. 

I’m like “hey! this is starting to look sorta finished! I think I can post it soon! 

But then I decide to draw the bookcases by hand.

Why? I don’t know. Well I mean I do know the old ones sucked but STILL. 

...I couldn’t get myself to do it and dropped the whole piece for two months. 

Three color changes and ten trillion little tweaks later I’m finally done. By the time I’m finished I’ve spent so much time on this that my family members are almost begging me to just post the damn thing instead of complaining about drawing details asdfdasf

Also if you made it to the end of this and somehow aren’t bored yet:

1) Congratulations! 

2) DM me if you have any questions about technique or just wanna chat! Just be warned that I will probably gush and/or ramble--! 

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I’m always trying to find people to watch rottmnt with me, but most of my friends and family just aren’t into cartoons. This means that when I actually DO rope someone into multiple episodes I get kind of excited! FINALLY SOMEONE WHO WILL UNDERSTAND MY REFERENCES AAAAA

(Her fav is Mikey)

OK SO even though like 90% of the time I don’t actually get people into the show, almost everyone enjoys watching an episode. I mean seriously, I ask everyone, like, hey mom mom mom hey mom guess what you should do? You should really watch ninja turtles with me thats what. I just think that it would be a very smart move for you toooooo come watch ninja turtles with me... :D

She’s usually only into k-dramas, but she actually did enjoy the ep i showed her!

I always start with Hot Soup: the Game! because it was my first ep bcos it was my first ep and it absolutely blew me away the first time I saw it. I love the scene where Mikey is reaching for a weapon to fight Foot Recruit with, and skips over the sword to go for an umbrella, AND THEN WHOOPS ASS WITH IT!! I LOVE when characters use parts of their environment and/or unconventional weapons in fight scenes!! Like,,,, that’s SO COOL??? (also shoutout to the hockey stick in there with the umbrella i see that Casey foreshadowing)

One thing I noticed by showing a lot of people the same episode is that everyone likes and laughs at different parts. There are a lot of funny parts in any given rottmnt ep, and the ones that make me laugh are different than the ones that made my mom laugh, or my friend, or my grandma (yes my grandma, she’s amazing and very high on my list of favorite people in the world). I dunno, just something I thought was cool.

I also notice new things each time I watch the episode---It just! Doesn’t get old!! I can watch almost any rottmnt episode and not get bored because there is just!!! SO MUCH COLOR AND DETAIL AND LOVE PUT INTO IT!!! I’m watching the hot soup for like the fifth time and ONLY JUST beginning to consciously appreciate the background music like?? That’s INSANE??

I have always loved cartoons, but I have never been so obsessed with a show nor so in LOVE with the time and love put into its art! I don’t know how end this or use words BUT YEAH!! ROTTMNT IS GREAT AND IM SO FREAKING GLAD THIS SHOW EXISTS!!!

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Close ups of the Mystic Library for anyone having trouble seeing the details! The only way I can motivate myself to draw details is by making them funny or interesting to me so there’s a ton of dumb jokes I shoehorned in here. I was laughing almost the entire time I was drawing the books asdfhsdfj