"When I was a young man, I fell in love with a woman-"
"Oh, hey, is it that late?"
"Sit."
This is such a funny father and son moment between these two, and I love it way too much.
Not only with Raph trying to get out of hearing a story from his dad that he's not interesting in/in the mood to hear, but also immediately wanting out the second he realizes it's about his dad's love life.
The way they choreographed Raph's fighting style and depicted his strength really makes me think they were literally a step away from giving him a license to kill someone💀
drew this 5 months ago without color shading so I kinda redo it altogether cuz It kinda bugging me off. I'm not sure if this looks better or not though????
anyway, all of my references are in this vid that I compiled myself. I'll give you two thumbs up if you could guess which one is which :)
So you have any tips on how to draw the 2012 turtles? I absolutely love your artstyle and i am in great need of assistance to put down on paper the overflowing ideas i have inside this brain of mine, please help. I'm begging.
thank youuuuu. I'm really bad at tutorials, but I hope my quick study helps!
to be fair, something I've said a lot is that I don't have an art style. It's either that or I'm still trying to find myself one. And it's really fun so far! I've got to try 2193809831029 different art styles to practice on.
I do think, as long as you know the base, shapes, and general anatomy, you'll do just fine to go on drawing these little patooties.
I never got to actually learn those things seriously until I managed to dig down all of tmnt 2012 storyboards that I could find online. so what I did was do some redraw practice so I could get used to how to draw them. and I really really recommend you to do that if you're interested.
you could see how much I improved in the past 3-4 months because of that, and I'm super proud of it.
a tiny, simple piece of advice that I could also add to this is: don't rush yourself. every single process that you go through will eventually pay off. so have fun and keep on practicing!
The dynamic in Rise between the rest of the team and Leo is. so fucking funny. Because like you've got these three extremely talented individuals who all seem like perfectly reasonable people at first glance, right, but then if you squint hard enough you realize they're actually all batshit insane (affectionate) and the clown boy standing behind them is secretly their common sense.
Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?
Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.
And the guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.
When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.
The sacred struggle of every iteration of Leonardo is thanklessly wrangling the most trigger-happy siblings in the world, and Rise Leo has not escaped it. He just does an occasional shenanigan to avoid detection and his brothers fall for it every time.