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Dad jokes.

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They've been feuding since the dawn of time

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what if

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Well, I accidentally reset my entire computer and lost all of my art, except for what I had posted or sent in discord :) So that's fun. BUT, good excuse to make proper character reference sheets for everybody c: Beginning, of course, with best boy. Closeups + a specific tattoo ref under the cut

And then for the tattoos, I wanted to make it so I never have to draw that shit again <3 LMAO. On the off chance someone wants to draw him, please feel completely free to download and use how you want.

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2025 June 25th

Kris glancing back at you when you make them kill 8-bit Susie and Ralsei messed me up, dude. That's gotta be terrifying, not knowing the player's intentions. Like, they only killed them because this is just a game, right? ...right...?

Rambling and behind-the-scenes stuff under the cut

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Especially terrifying if Kris has the meta-knowledge that they're in a game. Because if so, the previous cope doesn't work.

Originally, I planned to recreate a screenshot of the 8-bit game only so I could paint over it. However, I was going to slap the image into Blender 3D to warp it with a fisheye lens anyways, so I had the idea of making a CRT shader. Turns out I have shader skill issues and wasn't sure where to start! So I copied the homework of u/CalculatedBinary on Reddit. (Link in replies because I'm still paranoid of the days where external URLs blocked posts from showing up in tags / searches. Filter by oldest first if you don't see it right away.)

I did make some changes, though. CalculatedBinary's shader just makes a ray tube overlay that doesn't react to the texture underneath. But I had the idea to split the RGB channels of both the CRT overlay and image texture, darken each color of ray tube by the image texture's corresponding RGB value, then recombine all 3 channels. Might be easier just to show it.

Note that the "CRT shader" input is JUST the CRT overlay. This node group slots into the stage where you mix it with the image texture. Speaking of, unless you're working with a high pixel resolution or are viewing it from far away, you'll need to blend this result with your image texture again afterwards, because uhh...! The effect's real strong, captain!

There's cheater sub-pixels in there to mimic chromatic aberration, but otherwise this is an authentic representation of how CRT screens work! I made some other tweaks to the shader to get the CRT pixels to line up with the image texture pixels more precisely, but I won't get into that unless someone asks because it's nitty-gritty perfectionism stuff.

To circle back to an earlier point, this CRT shader sorta depends on well-defined pixels, so no paint-over for me. Given how long it took me to recreate a screenshot by hand based on nothing but blurry, compressed YouTube videos, I'm considering it fair usage, LMAO. Not like I'm making money off of this.

I love using Blender to solve my problems. Don't know how in the goddamn fisheye lenses work? Blender. Want to make or borrow image filters? Blender. Want that filter to follow the image's perspective? Yep, Blender.

I have minor beef with some of the anatomy and shading, but this piece was taking too long, it's Time to Stop. 😂 I friggin' cooked on the line art and their hair though, heck yea. A shame the dark shadows ate some of it.

Time taken was 33 hours and 38 minutes (at minimum. Forgot to time some of my Blender side-quests.)

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Turtle tot Raph, my beloved child.

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Well, I accidentally reset my entire computer and lost all of my art, except for what I had posted or sent in discord :) So that's fun. BUT, good excuse to make proper character reference sheets for everybody c: Beginning, of course, with best boy. Closeups + a specific tattoo ref under the cut

And then for the tattoos, I wanted to make it so I never have to draw that shit again <3 LMAO. On the off chance someone wants to draw him, please feel completely free to download and use how you want.

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*blast you with doodles of Hamato siblings*

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*blast you with doodles of Hamato siblings*

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You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

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One little fun detail about my favorite character Mona Lisa in the TMNT 2012 official art book is that her personality was based off the character Jenette Vasquez from the movie Aliens (1986)

Just something cool I wanted to share with yall

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Not everything needs to be a full story, you know?

If you have just one or two scenes that you’re really excited about, you can just write those. You don’t have to create a full WIP to contain them if you don’t want.

You can create characters without putting them into a project, they can just exist.

You can worldbuild for a universe that you never write about.

If there’s a trope you really want to write, but you don’t have a project to put them in… You can just write the best parts of that trope on its own.

Even if you do have a story and there’s parts you don’t want to write, it’s okay to just write the parts that you’re excited about. You don’t need to write the other parts and make it a full story.

I feel like in writing, there’s a lot of emphasis put on completion and writing a full story.

Completion or a full story doesn’t always have to be the purpose or goal. It’s okay and wonderful to just let something exist on its own without anything else.

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Well, I accidentally reset my entire computer and lost all of my art, except for what I had posted or sent in discord :) So that's fun. BUT, good excuse to make proper character reference sheets for everybody c: Beginning, of course, with best boy. Closeups + a specific tattoo ref under the cut

And then for the tattoos, I wanted to make it so I never have to draw that shit again <3 LMAO. On the off chance someone wants to draw him, please feel completely free to download and use how you want.

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how are you people alive.

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another troll! this is my oc carissa. unlike the little one, she is a bjd/art doll hybrid, with ball joints at the wrists and neck.

she will get a bigger photoshoot when i make a doll of her gf, but we just do not know when that will be.

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the horrors persist but my friends write beautiful fanfic

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I’ve never realized how horrendous it is to do anything while having a special interest until TMNT came into the mix

Bc I’ll be watching or playing anything from cozy romance to horror or straight up just having a life experience and my main thought will ALWAYS be ‘how do I make this about anthropomorphic turtles’