Headcanon Design - Blog Posts

guess who finally started reading more issues of something other than idw anyway yeah I’ve been reading a lot of Mirage TMNT lately and my opinion on Mirage!Honeycutt shifted from "eh whatever, kinda boring" to "what a sassy little guy with a huge identity crisis. i like him"

Also, some explanations for my headcanon design (spoilers ahead, obviously):

I think him wearing clothes would make sense not only because wearing clothes is a very human thing to do (I know wether or not he’s Zayton in Mirage is debatable but still) - but also because in Mirage’s TMNT universe SAL got mass-produced without Honeycutt’s consent. Someone stealing your invention is already bad enough, but when this invention is your BODY now…yeah, you gotta at least do everything you can to differentiate yourself from other robots 😳

After his eye got damaged in Mere Appendix it got replaced with a different eye from the same unit and…Well, if we count OG SAL as a prototype - they usually vary in one way or another from the "final product" so yeah, I’m giving him heterochromia

So uh…I didn’t make it to the Turtles Together Zine. Which is unfortunate because I’ve never been in zines and was curious to know what’s it’s like to be in one…but because I was just curious and I knew beforehand I probably won’t get picked - I’m not sad at all! In fact - I still want to draw the fanarts ideas for which I pitched about in my application!! For now though - you can have this headcanon IDW Donatello design I made…because he’s my favourite turtle! <3

Even though before the IDW brothers got mutated they looked more like sea turtles - in my headcanons they’re a western painted turtle & desert box turtle mix! Because, firstly - c’mon, they’re teenage MUTANT ninja turtles after all, let me have fun with their designs, and, secondly - after their mutation their shells and colour scheme resemble the species I named earlier (well, at least they do in my opinion haha). I’m not sure if I’m gonna make designs for other Hamato brothers (except for maybe Mickey because he’s my second favourite turtle). So, while I’m still at it, I’d like to point out that even though they’re all hybrids - Leo and Donnie look more like box turtles, while Raph and Mickey look more like painted turtles - thus their shells are a lot more colourful!

WHOAH! That’s such an amazing design, keep up the good work!!

Done! I can’t say this is the limit of my ideas, But for now let it be this much. Still I’m thinking about messing up with palettes.

First one is… hm… trying of materials that feel right. Fabric, zippers, repeating details. Second one was based on the idea of it being a hand made costume for costume party as it was. Something that never existed before. And third is hard to describe, I was just thinking about it being comfortable, sporty, but not the direct reinterpretation, just an alternative (I admit, it would be good to not leave his shoulders like this).

First one isn’t how I’ll keep drawing him. Lot of things will be the same I guess.

And big thank for feedback from your reblogs! ✨

Now go do me those numbers again 👺

I made a Mineta cardboard cutout standee