Very Old Turtle Vine 😂 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐀🍕

my version of the goobers! added some details n tuff!

revamp of some old Nightwing armor designs for my enchanted wof AU

Uzi feels like an energy drink fiend. Chugs that shit like water. N & V though...

i have a little thing i've been working on, it's a rottmnt x dinos au thingy!! i got some concept designs for the turtles so here they are

it's still in heavy development but i thought i'd share! i love them dearly grrr

also mandatory apology: i messed raph up big time and i'm so so sorry about that ueueueue

uh SIZE DIFFERENCES!!

and some FUN FACTS!!

Raph n Mikey like to occasionally bump their heads together as a kind of love language

Leo takes great pride in his feathers and sometimes grooms them for hours until they're "perfect"

Donnie had an accident as a tot, hence resulting in a bare back where his feathers cannot regrow (he's very insecure about it)

Sometimes Raph accidentally knocks things over with his tail cuz he's very clumsy with it (it's okay tho)

When upset, Mikey tends to hit his head against a wall in his room to blow off steam (said wall has several cracks in it)

also another neat detail!

Raph, Mikey and Leo all have beaks, only Donnie doesn't

and you know whyyyy??

because softshell turtles don't have beaks either!! see what i did there?? yeah

bird

Donnie skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Alright so softshell turtles right. They funky. It’s a lot more obvious that their shells are part of their ribs, as you can actually see the faint outline of their fused vertebrae and ribs on their shells. The reason their shells are so soft is because the edges and much of the lower half of their shell is actually all just cartilage and skin. Their plastron are weird, because the bone plates are largely separate and pointy, held together by harder cartilage the same way human ribs are attached around the sternum.

Donnie was weird to figure out on account of the cartilage lower half of his softshell, but I tried to compromise with his lower back vertebrae being unfused to still allow for the higher mobility required for his waist. Another fun fact about softshell is that they don’t actually have scutes or scales, but because of the look of his plastron and consistency with his brothers in the show, I’m just going to pretend that Draxum mixed in some DNA to let him grow scales for extra protection even if he has less coverage than his brothers. He can “breathe” water by absorbing oxygen through the skin of his throat, not actually by inhaling it. While most turtles can do this to a point, soft shells can stay quite active while doing so.

Personally I like to think of Donnie’s softshell as both a weakness and a strength depending on the situation! While more vulnerable, his skin can heal faster than scutes, and if he sustains blunt damage to his shell he can more easily disperse the force of it because of the give to his cartilage, rather than have the force crack his shell and cause a much more traumatic injury. Kind of like how seatbelts have some give to them to ease into a stop instead of giving someone whiplash.

Just some personal head canons! Feel free to disagree or expand upon :)

[General][Raph][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

I realize I haven’t posted in quite some time - here’s some sketchbook pages + a bit of digital art. These are done with alcohol markers, pens, and acrylic markers. There’s also some watercolor in there

How does it feel to reach the line that no one ever got to cross? Does it make you a god now? Every sin will be forgiven If you lay down your weapons to the ground Just make it die or you will turn it all To Ashes and Blood

--- i had made this much much long before ep 8... it was a sort of daydream i had listening to Blood Upon the Snow by Hozier, mixed with some Dark Souls playthroughs i was watching. It all combined into this lol Recently finalized it (couldnt care less about the bg) the lyrics in the caption are from To Ashes and Blood by Woodkid, from the Arcane s2 soundtrack. recently finished it and the song gave me one final push to complete this lol

progress below

"who could've eaten all my polygons?"

My fuckass Palico:

Brb crying about future turtles ;;;;

Don's silly overalls. Raph's prosthetic arm that Leo later inherits. Raph's pretty eyelashes...!

(first time I'm drawing any of them, wooo!)