so I got carried away a while back and uh. started designing my own versions of the turtles. the art is taking me forever to finish so here are the WIPs.
I'm still playing around with their color schemes and accessories, (I have so many fun ideas it's hard to pick just a few of the right ones and not overdo it!) but I'm pretty pleased with their shapes so far. and I lovvve designing sibling characters and making them look distinct from each other while also looking similar.
Still geeking over your renet design I wanna give her a big hug but I’ll prob make it really awkward so I’ll pat her on the back after because I’m a chill guy you guys trust 🙏🙏✨
I’m making my own renet rn any tips…
Renet wouldnt mind a hug! She actually is open to any kind of friendly affection, even start it.
Also, for the Renet tips…
Go crazy with her!
I actually did a retro style for Renet based on few things!
It would be crazy, but I just literally saw these pics and out of nowhere said “damn this is Renet”
Renet, for me has to be a combination of her timetress role and bubbly personality and nature. I mostly pretty think you should go crazy with it! I also think Renet is more like an avatar rather than a character, since she gets to see all Universes of tmnt. So she is basically changing depending what universe she is in. Thats my theory! So hey, if you wanna do a Renet, give her that thing that would make her look like “this universes Renet!”
I was surprised by the amount of people interested in my versions of the TMNT brothers, so I sketched a full body of Mikey. He’s still in the works, so his design is a little meh
Thank you so much to everyone who has interacted with this so far, it means so much to me.
I feel like I’ve come a really long way in a week!
Or course Raph and Leo find a reason to play fight with each-other, how else do you be brothers, they don’t even know.
So my fourth ever comic page took longer than the other three combined probably. I tried using that dark black comic inking quality, I like it because it stops it from looking like the Saturday morning cartoons comics? I know big bright images get the most attention here but I really like gritty.
I’m so scared of the learning curve that is going to be creating environments, the growth is making me anxious butI made an first attempt at the lair! Colouring just the main foreground is already a huge task idk how I’ll deal with the whole thing. I’m actually wondering if I should just leave colouring out? It’s hours of time. Hm.
I write too much dialogue, but I’m much better at writing paragraphs than doing this. New medium new writing style and that’s a whole weird learning thing too.
What’s this: I’m teaching myself to draw and growing the style while letting the story write itself, because I got really sick this week and it’s basically a fever dream. Weeee
Thank you so so much for reading!
Leave comments ask questions and if you know me in real life no you don’t.
Leo: the oldest, and a very big dork. Tries his best to be serious and responsible, and live up to Splinter’s expectations…but sometimes a kid just needs to read comics and cosplay his favourite hero from ‘Satellite Strike’. He loves encouraging and supporting his brothers (when they’re not being a pain in the shell).
Mikey: youngest, tied with Donnie. Super energetic and quite the goofball, but he’s always there for his brothers when he needs to be. Super creative and the life of the party, he encourages the others to let loose and have fun. Doesn’t like being alone, worries he’s being annoying a lot.
Donnie: also youngest tied with Mikey. Full of anxiety, but can be very mischievous and feral when he wants to be (Mikey typically encourages this.) extremely smart, but typically downplays his abilities.
Raph: second oldest. I based him around ‘87 Raph, so he’s less violent and more snarky/rude when he’s angry- he’s a big softy even if he wouldn’t admit it, being very protective of his brothers, especially Donnie.
Donnie and Mikey are non-identical twins! Having said that Donnie and Raph are SUPER close to eachother- the two of them were both captured by kraang when they were younger for experimentation. Raph got his scars from saving Donnie- and Donnie wears overalls now to hide his mostly damaged Plastron, thanks to some not-very-ethical surgeries.
Leo and Raph don’t butt heads as often as some of their other versions, but when they do it gets very heated very quickly.
In the earlier days, Splinter had higher, harsher expectations for them, Leo specifically, as he was the oldest. Splinter has only mutated recently, and wasn’t in a good place. He figured the best thing to do was train them as quick as he could, to protect themselves. He was often distant and harsh. Leo began to struggle with his self image, and isolated himself from his brothers, which caused the dynamic to grow tense and uncomfortable. Mikey suffered from this a lot, and still has attachment issues to this day.
As they got older Splinter realized what he was doing and who he was hurting, and him and the turtles worked on fixing their relationship. (Splinter takes online therapy every Wednesday, under a fake account that Donnie helped set up.)
Later on in this story (like- nearish future) Leo gains the Classic Knee Injury TM and it doesn’t heal properly, so he has to learn to fight differently, and to rely on his brothers for help every now and then. (But he’s still the most skilled ninja master around fr)
OKAY THAT WAS ALOT OF TALKING HOPE U LIKE IT BYEE<33
Sorry if they look squished down!! I wanted to get their full body references and the only one who doesnt look squished is Mikey. Will reblog with info on these lads later.