Electraneer - Gray

Remember the manticore AU from like *counts on fingers* 7... months ago? I still think about it sometimes.

Very shortly summarized: The solver is a kind of magic accidentally created by Cyn, a witch. The disassemblers have to eat human meat to survive.

There is a lot more to it obviously but there's also a lot of stuff I don't know or haven't decided on yet.

Uzi's weird tail thing affectionately gnawing on N's head will forever be one of my favorite background Nuzi scenes

The headlines and anecdotes being shared about Tesla dealerships and cyber trucks getting wrecked and vandalized are all very enjoyable and revitalizing.

If you want to repost this one anywhere, feel free! Credit me where and when you can, but it's all good even if you can't.

If shadow started living with the Wachowski fam. Maddie’s still a little wary of him.

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

insanity

im finally here with the story of EGGRIK (ie my MH oc Eirik)

gist is he was born as a prince. in egg form. bc hes wyverian. lol

then it was lost for 1 william years until he hatched.....its magic. He's like Drogon. I had to do this because princes are my favorite gender .............................okay

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]

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

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!)