Sorry No Morrowind Art This Weekend Because I've Been Playing The MHWilds Open Beta And Auggghh My Brain

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

"i love doing anything!"

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Day 22: Fav turtle duo

Day 23: Fav human ally

Day 26: Fav series

Day 27: Fav mutant/alien villain

Drawing every day made me very tired, so I made a drawing combining 4 daily themes

Raphael skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Turtle shells are really funky, and in real life turtles, their shoulders and hips are actually fused to the shell and form immobile shoulder and pelvic girdles. Their scapula (shoulder blades) therefore are pushed almost fully downwards to give turtle arms that elbow up look. Most of their muscles are attached via ligaments to their plastron and limbs, with their large neck muscles reaching back along their spine with very minimal muscles on their sides or back.

Because of how funky their bones are, I tried to find a good middle ground between the brothers’ humanoid shape and mobility vs. their original species limitations. Their shoulders are very human, with their collarbone instead connecting to the top of their plastron rather than a sternum (flat bone in the middle of the ribs) with the addition of their shoulder blades resting much lower than a humans and protecting the open space in the armpit of their shell (rather than being set on their back under their carapace). Their necks can stretch slightly longer than a humans and have some extra mobility, on account of how they usually sit curved and tucked into their shoulders. Their pelvises and lumbar vertebrae (hips and lower back) are not fused to their shell to enable them to twist their torsos some.

As for how flexible the show depicts their shells to be… suspension of disbelief! I like to keep the idea of their shells being turtle like, so even though they’re all bone, I’ll allow cartoon physics to bend them some.

Additional info on Raph: The spikes on his shell are mostly bone. Also (something I didn’t draw because it was only after I finished this that I was able to find a picture of an alligator snapper shell bone without its scutes) there are small gaps between his pleural bone plates (middle of shell) and his peripheral bone plates (edges of shell). The scar on his shell is probably from a bone deep injury, as broken scutes shed away, but because scars don’t grow with a person, the injury is small enough that it probably happened so long ago that Raph can’t even remember it.

This is all just my speculation, so feel free to disagree or expand upon these ideas!

[General][Donnie][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

Heaving, pt. 2

Pt.1

Obligatory funny edit to ease you

Some words needed to be changed to make sense, so hopefully that doesn't bother any of you 🙏

Shitpost of a headcannon that the DDs still sleep upside-down if not hanging off something

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!)

DAY 3:SLUMBER

1 was super busy and tired yesterday so I decided to draw Phillip Burne-Jones "The Vampire" in my style... even with coping Burne-Jones I didn't manage to get it done on time.

1 think this is one of my favourite vampire artworks of all time being made in 1897 it's the same year which Bram Stroker's Dracula came out which heavily influenced the mainstream perspective on vampires but I feel like this artwork has a few more of the traditional folklore inspiration. Before Dracula vampires were more of a metaphor for disease and parasites but I feel like Stoker added more human and nuanced elements too it.

Idk if I like how this art came out but I just gotta keep going and hope other days turn out better than this one lol

The Handler: Eee-yikes! Looks like this Monster is the real Hunter! We better move fast if we still want to be Borne of this World, or else we'll be put on Ice!

The Sinister Nargacuga:

Revelations- DaGOI au comic + a lil bonus