I Just Discovered That Yes, I Do Have Phantom Ears From Maned Wolf. I Just Didn't Realize. I Very Often

this is literally the best explanation of fics ever omg

i just saw the tag “canon complicit” instead of “canon compliant” and im laughing its like “canon is a criminal act that i unfortunately support with this fic”

Belogarth: Eleonora, could you, maybe, stop having constantly suffering guests over?

Eleonora: why, my dear?

Belogarth: ugghhhhh I'm gonna barf *rushes to the toilet and pukes suffering* I'm fed up please stop

Eleonora: haha, no

Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.

I really needed it :)

(My response to @hyperchef ‘s reblog of this post)

Making an exaggerated expression that doesn’t look weird is mostly about figuring out what to exaggerate in order to convey the desired emotion. For instance, when a character is angry, exaggerate their brow line. When a character is happy, exaggerate their smile. When a character is sad, exaggerate their eyes. Examples:

By accentuating certain features, you can convey more intense emotions without it looking weird or off. Most emotions have a main focus point to which we subconsciously notice and use to figure out what someone else is feeling. Some more complex ones would be Disgust exaggerates the mouth, surprise accentuates the eyebrows, eyes and hair, sleepy exaggerates the mouth, eyes and eyebrows, and pain exaggerates everything all at once.

So for your eyes, problem, there are some tricks for drawing the tmnt eyes. Now I’m not sure exactly which style you’re talking about, but since you said you previously were working with realistic shapes, I’m guessing you’re having trouble with the Rise style.

Rise seems to have a “standard shape” for their eyes. It’s generally a rounded parallelogram. It’s composed of four convex lines that are sharpest at the eye’s tear ducts and point. The bottom is typically flat, though Leo and Donnie often have the top be completely flat and the bottom much more round, like a semi-circle.

As for the pupils, I honestly struggle a lot with this as well. I think the most important thing is to establish almost like certain standard sizes. So just keep scribbling a circle until you think it’s the appropriate size to be your standard middle size. From there you can make it bigger or smaller depending on the emotion.

so if the one on the far left is the standard, then the one in the middle is a sad smile and the one on the right is horrified shock.

You have to be careful though, I’ve found through my experience that it’s easy to become desensitized to this kind of thing. You draw a small pupil to show shock but after looking at it too long or drawing to many characters expressing that emotion, somehow it doesn’t look small enough anymore.

The same can happen in the other direction, you want a sweet expression but for some reason as soon as you’re happy with how big and round the pupil is, it’s already not enough. This is cause by you setting your eye to think that that is the standard size and now you think that the pinprick is the mid point, so “surprised” has to be smaller than that.

It’s actually really easy to undo this phenomenon, just erase the pupil, draw you pre-established standard, look at it for minute, then erase it and go back to what you were doing. This kind of thing is about relativity.

If you’re still having trouble with this stuff, you can message me with more questions that I can help you with and answer!

I hope you found this helpful. Expressions are tricky to nail. I usually draw and redraw the expressions in ROTP two or three times before I’m satisfied, and even then I’m constantly tweaking them. Don’t feel bad for not absolutely nailing it on the first try, just make sure you keep trying and tweaking your technique until you can make something you’re proud of!

Good questions! :]

It IS true that being on here gives you a tumblr accent. This morning my mother asked me something and i replied "i don't know i've never heard these words in that order" and she nearly choked laughing. It wasn't even that funny

hehe I know that it isn't about that but this is the first thing that appeared after that^ video (and it's funneh hehehe)

@cupcakeslushie , tbh this is one of my top 3 fav "separated AUs"

Hope you're doin well

I personally don't like physical touch, I don't like the feel of human skin in general. Sometimes I want a hug and then I go and hug someone that's willing to, but usually I'm grossed out by the stickiness of the skin. So, yeah, I would respect that. It's valid.

reblog if you think not liking physical touch is "valid" and if someone tell you they don't like being touched you will stop immediately and not tell them a hug isn't gonna kill them and then disrespect their boundaries

Thank you so much, that means really a lot to me. Btw, what's 'constelic'? I wanna know, could you explain it to me, please?

I'm probably dragon Otherkin.

No deeper thoughts, just thought I should share it with someone. If you're theriophobic/ otherkinphobic (idk how it's called) just don't react. You're not gonna change anything, maybe just deepen my depression or smth. But if you're also Otherkin or a therian, could you reblog or write on priv? I just need to know if there is anyone like me out there.

BEAUTIFULLL why is this so prettyyyy

I think Mikey LOVED to spend time with Raph and Casey before Raph... well... And GOD I CAN'T WHY I CAN'T I CAN'T *CRIES*

Anatomical studies!

So, there was a line in TMNT’03 when Raph complains about his ribs that got me thinking, isn’t a turtles shell their ribs?

So, I did a little looking into the skeletal structure of turtles and how it might apply to the brothers, particularly the Rise brothers as they’re all different species. Here’s the little chart of common bone and scute patterns, and some speculation on how their reptilian features affects them!

I’ll post my individual skeletal studies after!

[Raph] [Donnie] [Leo] [Mikey] [Splinter]

7+8 (8+8 is 16, so if 7 is one less than 8 that means 7+8 is 15)=15, 15+20=35, 30+40=(3+4)*10=7*10=70, 70+5=75

...I probably have ADHD or smth