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Shitpost of a headcannon that the DDs still sleep upside-down if not hanging off something

This 100% how it happened

DAY 3:SLUMBER

1 was super busy and tired yesterday so I decided to draw Phillip Burne-Jones "The Vampire" in my style... even with coping Burne-Jones I didn't manage to get it done on time.

1 think this is one of my favourite vampire artworks of all time being made in 1897 it's the same year which Bram Stroker's Dracula came out which heavily influenced the mainstream perspective on vampires but I feel like this artwork has a few more of the traditional folklore inspiration. Before Dracula vampires were more of a metaphor for disease and parasites but I feel like Stoker added more human and nuanced elements too it.

Idk if I like how this art came out but I just gotta keep going and hope other days turn out better than this one lol

I think Uzi would give away her feelings with her tail a lot despite her edgy persona. And I wonder what that means for Cyn sometimes 🤣

I genuinely think Cyn would probably enjoy this, yelling "wee!" Even haha-- but it was too funny not to visualize this way.

Anyway--

Bonus Below!

I saw those Leo designs where his markings were like running off his head and thought that’d be fun to do and then in relation i unintentionally made usagi so very much more plain, well that and I struggled for an hour to draw his hands before giving up, but it’s okay cuz i still think he’s awesome

A bonus doodle

i cant stop drawing these silly things

DAY 4:SUIT

This prompt isn't really that difficult when you got mostly old-timely ass characters that all wear suits. I decided to use gouache for this one because I realised I never post any traditional art on my account and that's kinda lame tbh.

Still thinking about brand new mutated Dad Splinter figuring out the dynamics between his children. It wasn't until I was lining some of this that I realized the unintentional angst in this cute comic, because Splinter seeing how distraught Leo and Donnie are at being separated would hit a little too close to home for him.

yeah

Raphael skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Turtle shells are really funky, and in real life turtles, their shoulders and hips are actually fused to the shell and form immobile shoulder and pelvic girdles. Their scapula (shoulder blades) therefore are pushed almost fully downwards to give turtle arms that elbow up look. Most of their muscles are attached via ligaments to their plastron and limbs, with their large neck muscles reaching back along their spine with very minimal muscles on their sides or back.

Because of how funky their bones are, I tried to find a good middle ground between the brothers’ humanoid shape and mobility vs. their original species limitations. Their shoulders are very human, with their collarbone instead connecting to the top of their plastron rather than a sternum (flat bone in the middle of the ribs) with the addition of their shoulder blades resting much lower than a humans and protecting the open space in the armpit of their shell (rather than being set on their back under their carapace). Their necks can stretch slightly longer than a humans and have some extra mobility, on account of how they usually sit curved and tucked into their shoulders. Their pelvises and lumbar vertebrae (hips and lower back) are not fused to their shell to enable them to twist their torsos some.

As for how flexible the show depicts their shells to be… suspension of disbelief! I like to keep the idea of their shells being turtle like, so even though they’re all bone, I’ll allow cartoon physics to bend them some.

Additional info on Raph: The spikes on his shell are mostly bone. Also (something I didn’t draw because it was only after I finished this that I was able to find a picture of an alligator snapper shell bone without its scutes) there are small gaps between his pleural bone plates (middle of shell) and his peripheral bone plates (edges of shell). The scar on his shell is probably from a bone deep injury, as broken scutes shed away, but because scars don’t grow with a person, the injury is small enough that it probably happened so long ago that Raph can’t even remember it.

This is all just my speculation, so feel free to disagree or expand upon these ideas!

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