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@samuraisaworkinprogress02 's Ashes of the Forest AU's Leo!! He looks like such a little guy!!

I like that the AU is Little Nightmares inspired, I can't not like it!!!

Shaking him like a squeaky toy, I am eager to know more about the AU

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Hey! Saw you needed some help with your AF!Leo design so here's my thoughts. Hope this helps!

I feel like your design may need a bit more cohesion so here are some suggestions:

— to me, considering how messy he is it feels too convenient that all his hair happens to land behind his mask, if you put some over his eyes that would help and it would make Leo look more feral

— the bright blue streaks in his hair do balance out the red streaks but they still feel a little out of place so maybe include some engravings on his cuffs that are glowing blue, or some blue accents on his mask

— if you made his bone that's sticking out of his elbow bigger/more jagged it would share the same pointy shape-language with his jagged mask stripes

— you could emphasize his "prisoner" vibes by putting cuffs on both his ankles and wrists, or by making the chains attached to his wrist cuffs long enough to drag around

— you could reveal that his face is also partially skeletalized (hence the mask)

Anyway! Hope this helped or at least got your gears turning! Have a great Fourth of July! <3

It did help a lot actually, thank you very much.

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TYYY :D

I love the chibis too, Mikey is absolutely holding them too hard

I love the chibis by @dydxzero

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What a... surprising result...! I genuinely did not know what I expected but it was certainly not this, I mean it should be statistically predictable if you guys were being nice to me by choosing someone else who isn't Donnie since from what Ive noticed, Donnie is the fandom's #1 boy, followed closely by Leo, then Raph, then Mikey. Maybe next time I should assign the guys numbers for you guys to choose from if I really wanted something more random (which isn't really the point of the poll but still, its something I should consider)

But tyyy for not making it Donnie again

I'm trying to plan ahead here

With a short poll duration bc Im trying to be nice to myself

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LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR MICHELANGELO HAMATO!!✨🔥

Im tagging correctly btw :3

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I'm trying to plan ahead here

With a short poll duration bc Im trying to be nice to myself

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Tiny Mutant Nuinja Turtles

(part 2)

Part 1 here

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I don't think I would be able to make it fully coloured again, man. This sketch-y style feels nicer to do, though I did try to make it neater at the first few panels lol

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When you try to make your siblings take responsibilities by themselves

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Disaster Twins 2025 🐢🐢

My boys! They look so vastly different in just two and a half years!

I loved doing this redraw, not only for experiencing first hand my newer process and how I've grown, but also being able to look at both finished versions side by side and having visible proof of the evolution of my art. It really goes to show that, while progress isn't always immediate and or linear, time and practice really does equal improvement in the end.

progress pictures, comparisons, and my thoughts on this redraw below:

First thing's first, looking at my old art I feel like those poses were the extent of my skill at the time, a real challenge that I set for myself, Leo in particular. I still appreciate them, especially for the first attempt I ever made at drawing any or the turtles, so going into the new one, I really wanted to emulate that same dynamic: Leo crouched down, supporting Donnie's elbow. But I didn't want it to feel as static.

In the new one, I wanted to be more lean in Donnie's pose, as if he's really putting his weight on Leo. Leo himself stayed relatively the same pose-wise, but I felt there was a way to push the pair of them to make it more dynamic. Hence, the perspective.

The second thing I wanted to tackle was the energy of the image. In the old one, I feel it gives more fun, pop-of-color vibes. It's energy was from me trying to take on the Rise style, of attempting to take on the vibrancy of the show and translate it to my art.

Now that I've had a few years to test what works best for me, I feel as though I've improved at balancing the color palettes a bit. I've always favored more muted tones, but always fought the Rise style to find the right give and take, but over time I found a happy medium that tends to lean toward those more muted tones for the body while still adding that pop of color, usually in the eyes or a source of light.

Rim lighting might just be part of my style at this point.

And lastly, I'd like to be able to compliment the original background, but it didn't work for the poses and colors I had going on on Donnie and Leo. The idea was to have a TMNT spray painted on a wall, but since the bodies covered most of the work, it was difficult to tell what was going on.

On the new one, I really leaned into the drama of the scene. They're ready to fight, they're moving, and they're a threat. I didn't want the background to fight with the characters this time around, so starting with the dark, monotone slate helped me smooth out the rest of the ambience before attempting the mystics on Donnie's bo, Leo's portal and what ended up being the wind. And finally the text. I intentionally kept it hard to notice, a small detail that added a bit more texture without distracting and also taking some of the blues and purples throughout the drawing. That last detail, the boy's names, was what I used to mimic the original background.

This ramble turned out a lot longer than I intended, feels like I should end it with "in conclusion" XD

Overall, I'm really happy with how this went and how I've grown since I started drawing tmnt art. Thanks for sticking around to listen to me chatter endlessly, please let me know if this is something you'd wanna read more of in the future!

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Tiny Mutant Nuinja Turtles

The Tiny turtle nuis has appeared!

Part 2 here

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Long-ish post incoming (sorry lol)

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Had a thought that maybe a gif isn't the best to use as ref, so I compiled the unique images below (I didn't include some bc they were just mirrors of existing ones)

Mikey

Leo

Raph

Donnie (Damn his goggles)

Get rotated!!! I love doing this :)

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With some of you saying that you want posters/stickers/trinkets of my art, its really making me think that I should figure out how international shipping works, huh?

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Tried chibifying them as much as I can :D

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whatever go my gummy turtles

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Are you joining them?

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Brown-Eyed Boys!

Because goshdarnit, brown eyes are beautiful, too!!!!