All of the rise ocs I’ve been seeing lately gave me a little of the turt oc fever so I revamped my Frida design a little.
Mainly just added a little more gold, removed some stuff, added some stuff- just little things but it was fun :) idk whether or not Frida dear actually counts as an oc bc she is technically in the show… but whatever hahaha
The secret art project I’m working on for her is getting closer to being finished and I’m so exciteddddd
yup! its an actual thing now, i finally ironed out the story beats so this is a proper au/rewrite of the aftermath of season 2, im looking foward to posting more art and comics abt it, but please dont expect a full comic or fic
however asks are more than welcomed! i have a lot of stuff prepared for it and i wanted a proper cover to announce it dsfj
(i wanted to add some symbolism to everyones line of sight, not sure if its noticeable
Fuck you *designs the turtles' kooky other-dimension sister*
Thinking about her and trying to come up with her design just made me think of Arcane's Jinx, so that's definitely her main inspo. As well as Briar, another League champion. I made her the Venus, bc I really want Big Mama's assistant to be a Jennika type- Given their respective stories, with Jenny being from the Foot Clan.
Her markings are also inspired by the concept art of the turtles' 'Ninpo Forms'.
reposting some of my old lfls + leo art bc i know people really liked em and my old account got nuked with no explanation. so here you go rise tumblr theyre back!
When asked about the missing Turtle siblings plot line that had originally been planned for season 3 of Rise it was stated that one of the Turtles missing siblings would have been trapped in another dimension for years while the other would have been Big Mama's Assistant.
While we don't know much about the other missing Turtle sibling the Rise team did tell us that they had been planning to name the two missing Turtle after artists similarly to how the Turtles were named after Renaissance artists & that Big Mama's Assistant could have possibly been named after the painter Frida Kahlo with Frida being the name that was considered for Big Mama's Assistant.
This wouldn't have been the first time a character has been named Frida however as back in 2017 Nickelodeon released a short called 'Teenage Mecha Ninja Turtles' which follows a future version of Mikey’s students who fight crime in Turtle mechs with each one of Master Michelangelo’s students are named after different artists.
There are some similarities between Rise & the Teenage Mecha Ninja Turtles as Frida 'the red Turtle’ is the leader of the team similarly to how Raph was the leader of the team for most of Rise.
Due to how Rise & the Teenage Mecha Ninja Turtles both had 'the red Turtle' as the leader & how they both would have possibly had a character named Frida, part of me wonders if Frida being a possible name for Big Mama's Assistant was possibly inspired by the Teenage Mecha Ninja Turtles & if the other missing Turtle sibling could have possibly be named Kusama after Yayoi Kusama similarly to Frida's team mate from the short.
Considering that we only know a few things about the missing Turtle siblings that the Rise team have told us & we only have the brief appearance of the extra mutation chambers in the episode 'The Evil League of Mutants' as well as Big Mama's Assistant's appearances we can only really speculate about what they would have been like but it is fun to wonder about them.
I have had the time of my life with this art challenge, and I'm so proud of how the pieces have turned out. This has helped me to experiment with art styles, background designs, storytelling and comic ideas, AU's, and so much more. Special thanks to the creator of this art challenge, this was so much fun and I'm so glad that I had the opportunity to participate in this!