#turtle skeleton

[pacificremains]

Small snapping turtle skeleton.

[vulstare]

fanart for @qoldenskies's caged lungs fic 💥💥

it isn't based on any scene in particular, just my overall interpretation and visualization of things I felt. mostly bad things. but apparently human brains enjoy that. so let's go

I'm gonna ramble now, buckle up

Frankly that's the first personal piece I've drawn in months, and I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful that I was able to feel emotions and wanted to draw something again

I struggle a lot with empathy and understanding of other's feelings and displaying my own but. I hope people will feel something by looking at it, too

I've got inspired by the old tale that we used to read on literature lessons, altho I for the life of me can't remember the name of it, or anything else from the plot for that matter. There were a competition for retrieving the jug from the bottom of the river, where many men tried and failed, as they couldn't reach it. As you can already tell, it was a reflection of the jug that was hanged on a tree all along.

I liked the concept of something unreachable being seen as being very close to you :) hence the whole water situation

generally water is seen as a positive symbol in art but for me it's cold, slippery, you can't see shit in it, misleading and uncomfortable. go figure

and I really like how CL displays yellow as a color with negative connotation while it's classically being the The Most Happy Coded Color Ever.

while I'm at it I wanted to share a song I associate with caged lungs in particular

just let it die!

I would have liked to talk more about how awesome the fic is and how invested I'm in the plot and characters and how noticing details and parallels makes my brain go brrrr but I'm shy and not really eloquent with my words. I hope you will get the idea anyway. I love it <3

& textless version :0

If you spot any symbolism, it's probably there. or not. up to you really. that's how art works. have fun

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Leo skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality :)

The way most turtles actually fit into their shells is because their arms and legs are shaped to fit into the loose skin around the openings for their limbs, but on account of their human proportions, I just suspend my disbelief as to how mutant turtles could fit in their shells without the odd configuration to their organs that real turtles have. Real turtles have flat lungs that sit widely along their carapace, which is weird but cool. Turtles shed their scutes (the large flat scales on their shells and plastron) about once a year or if the scutes are damaged. The scutes have barely any skin between them and the bone, which is why turtle skeletons usually have the scutes on still, though they can pop off. The rest of the skin sheds regularly though, instead of in large patches.

For the brothers’, their respiration is much more human than turtle. Therefore, their lungs need to expand and contract with their diaphragm rather than just with their movement, so therefore they must have some flexibility to their chest. Some turtles, like box turtles, already have hinged plastrons, and softshell shells are mostly cartilage, so it’s not too far off to assume that there’s a bit of cartilage just to the upper plastral bones of the hard shelled brothers to give their humanoid lungs room to breathe.

Poor Leo. After the movie, one could assume he’s got a couple broken bones. It kind of made me morbidly curious as to how to describe injuries on a character whose skeletal structure is quite different from a human’s for my own writing!

Feel free to use as reference or disregard, these are just my own little speculations :)

[General][Raph][Donnie][Mikey][Splinter]

[satandoesntwannabehere]

TLDR: ‼️blog is becoming multi fandom‼️

my desc is a lie now I’m so sorry 😭

I was kinda leaning for it to be a multi fandom blog from the beginning, but ever since that one post exploded I felt like I’d be disappointing a lot of the people who followed just for UTMV content so I decided to try and stick to just that

lowkey doing that was a mistake though cause my brain, for the love of its life, CANNOT stay still in one fandom for too long or else it’d explode,,

I’ve been stressing and was considering making multiple blogs for all the fandoms I draw fanart for, but trying to manage over 10+ blogs sounds like.…hell..

..haha get it (sorry)

I talked to a few friends and they managed to convince my shyass to convert this blog into a multi fandom one so aggshzhz,,,

im rly sorry to anyone who followed just for utmv!! :( I'll probably make a master post or an introduction soon to properly introduce myself! Thank you immensely to everyone who has enjoyed my art so far, I wasn't expecting the amount of attention and despite how shy and hesitate I am to post, it's made me really happy :D ♡

APOLOGIES FOR THE LONG RANT ILL STOP TALKING NOW

[leisi-lilacdreams]

practicing lights and shadows and playing around with gradient maps

also been drawing too many leos need more donnies

[trilobitepunch]

*cackle*

[disgustiphage]

some of my old discworld paintings :D with the top two being based off the old cover for mort and one of the illustrations in the last hero

[microsofttothemax]

when your son somehow manages to discover the best gossip so you keep him around the pizzeria simply to find out the most recent rumors of the customers

a continuation of this au which is now my roman empire

[forgettable-au]

Skeletons are an INCREDIBLY rare species, yet they are know to be a type of monster. Ergo, there must have been more at a point in time. The War is the likely candidate for such losses, as Humans would be... antsy about fighting monsters that reflect their own losses.

Gerson was a known combatant in the war, and was known by MANY. Therefore, he mightve known some Skeletons, ESPECIALLY a Dingbats Font. If anyone (bar Sans) could understand Wingings, it'd be him.

Maybe! The way I interpret dingbats fonts is that the sound is just not compatible with most people's hearing capacity Like...in the way we can't hear some sounds that certain animals can (but in this case, monsters do hear it! but only a distorted version)

So, I don't think it's something you can necessarily learn???? you would have to change the way you perceive sound D: But like, Gerson is OLD and he knows a LOT of stuff, so if he somehow was able to understand I wouldn't be surprised lmao

[penguinzeza]

DOODLES!!

Just the skeleton bros and the B team.

[no-living-thing-within]

Leatherback turtle, 1994.

[darwuzhere]

Fundraiser for Jackie E by Noha Ayyad : Help Noha’s family to escape war

[cakesmelons]

If I was to theoretically give you a gift of. An art piece of anything you wanted. Like. Anything you wanted. An art piece. What. What would you want. Theoretically.

ANYTHING? well if it's ANYTHING. i would love to see A tmnt turtle in your art style. i think they'd look adorable in it

BUT if turtles are too much. I also love me good old classic dreamtale twins <3333

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Donnie skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Alright so softshell turtles right. They funky. It’s a lot more obvious that their shells are part of their ribs, as you can actually see the faint outline of their fused vertebrae and ribs on their shells. The reason their shells are so soft is because the edges and much of the lower half of their shell is actually all just cartilage and skin. Their plastron are weird, because the bone plates are largely separate and pointy, held together by harder cartilage the same way human ribs are attached around the sternum.

Donnie was weird to figure out on account of the cartilage lower half of his softshell, but I tried to compromise with his lower back vertebrae being unfused to still allow for the higher mobility required for his waist. Another fun fact about softshell is that they don’t actually have scutes or scales, but because of the look of his plastron and consistency with his brothers in the show, I’m just going to pretend that Draxum mixed in some DNA to let him grow scales for extra protection even if he has less coverage than his brothers. He can “breathe” water by absorbing oxygen through the skin of his throat, not actually by inhaling it. While most turtles can do this to a point, soft shells can stay quite active while doing so.

Personally I like to think of Donnie’s softshell as both a weakness and a strength depending on the situation! While more vulnerable, his skin can heal faster than scutes, and if he sustains blunt damage to his shell he can more easily disperse the force of it because of the give to his cartilage, rather than have the force crack his shell and cause a much more traumatic injury. Kind of like how seatbelts have some give to them to ease into a stop instead of giving someone whiplash.

Just some personal head canons! Feel free to disagree or expand upon :)

[General][Raph][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

[jane-tyna]

Trying to measure their height

[voidrevelator]

The preacher said to ask G0d.

so i did.