Rotttmnt - Blog Posts

This is an old one but I started thinking about what if April ever had to move out of New York whether it be for work, college, etc….the boys would not be able to handle it💔

Super hot take/headcannon:

Rottmnt Frida is half Mexican half Japanese

My friend’s legos look like baby 2k12! April and Rise! April having a playdate 🥰

YAAAASS WE HAVE A NEW SHE-SHELL IN DA HOUSE

Or you know the first new version of a she-shell which we haven’t had in YEARS!!!

so I did some research and judging by her markings she could be an Eastern Box Turtle

Upon further reflection she could just have silly markings for funsies but she’d still be GORGEOUS in my opinion

This parallel hit me like a cement truck when I rewatched Anatawa Hitorijanai yesterday.

Finished human!Mikey.

Michelangelo "Mikey" Hamato. 14. Japanese/Black American. This project was the very definition of "trust the process." From the beginning I struggled with this piece and I almost gave up and started over many times, but I'm so glad I stuck with it. I love this piece! His orange tips, the jewelry, the jacket. I'm in love with all the little details. For example, Mikey's customized his amulet (of course) with color tributes to each of his brothers. And I see Mikey as a face sticker-wearer, yeah?

Finished version: human!Raph

Raphael "Raph" Hamato. 16. Japanese/Black American. We stan a big guy with delicate features in this house. I'm high-key obsessed with his hair, so I kind of killed myself getting it to look right and I'm so happy with how it turned out.

Holy ****, I do digital art sometimes, imagine that. Please enjoy human!Leo all finished up! Raph is next.

Leonardo "Leo" Hamato. 15. Japanese/Puerto Rican American. I love that I arrived at under-eye makeup to mimic the red-eared slider markings, and I can just hear his smug little chuckle when I look at his face. I think I captured the ✨pizzaz✨, don't you?

I made myself sad so of course I must share and make you sad too.

Spoilers for the movie, also loosely based on my own experience with trauma and "the dark spiral" that neurodivergents sometimes get stuck in. Iykyk.

And yes it is vaguely inspired by that one amazing comic (if anybody knows the creator please let me know so I can credit them, no joke I spent an hour trying to find them to no avail) where Leo's comm is on while he's in the prison dimension and everyone can hear him being beaten nearly to death.

Human!ROTTMNT

This is based off of the outfits from "The Clothes Don't Make the Turtle" and some canon/ headcanon snippets about my favorite disaster teens.

I also want to add that these are mystic disguise pins/medallions like Sunita's...they're handsome and good as they are, this is just for them to blend in.

Some notes:

I've been dying to draw Raph with long braids forever. It's canon that Leo speaks basic Spanish because of NewYoricans so it follows that he'd be Peurto Rican (I learned this after the physical notes were made, so I changed it because it's a brilliant fact and I gots to). Freckles are non-negotiable on Mikey in every incarnation, and his hair is so fun to draw. And lastly, you cannot convince me that Donnie would sit still for a haircut (fellow autistic can confirm).

So I've seen ROTTMNT but I haven't read MTMTE/Lost Light..only seen snippets of the comic....

Someone who's seen both pieces of media, tell me if these two blorbos are anything alike?

Because they're both giving "silly goober trying to live up to the roll of leader while experiencing an angsty personal crisis" and I don't know how accurate it is to say they're basically the same or not....

AAAAH UR ART IS SO SILLY!!! the grl pwr sticker makes me giggle donnie is so women in stem coded/hj

you guys seemed to really like my traditional art so heres some more sketchbook spreads with donnie