Scatterbrainedbot - Incapable Of Shutting Up In The Tags

ok so ive been chatting w some folks on discord (who are all dangerous and terrible influences (/aff)) about the rat boys interacting with some other turtle iterations and aus at the competition. and now i have an idea for a silly little series of comics that im really excited about— but given how slow i work and how little time i have to draw rn, it’ll probably run long past when the competitions are done.

so i need opinions.

(also to clarify, id plan to post pages whenever theyre done, so itd be a series of posts starting now and updating sporadically as i can work on it)

( @sharkfinn 👀👀👀 )

help me choose what day is spots birthday

i was looking for some old drawings and notes for spots, and i was trying to think when his birthday/proper date of creation would be

uno's is very clear, she was created and designed for rottmnt's universe on july 28th, 2022

but spots/giovanni didn't start out as a rise oc, when i first decided to make a tmnt oc, i hadn't watched rottmnt, i drew this right after reading the northampton arc in tmnt idw:

28th july 2021

here he is- the first ever drawing of him. :) his head looks like a beluga whale immediately after he turned into a 2012 oc and stayed that way for a while

then! aside from a few drawings that went horribly...

9th june 2022

...was the day i officially made a rise design for him and started to develop a story for him (god he was so ugly)

^he almost looked like this too! ...should we change back???👀

WHAT'S A SUPER BOOP ????

ZACH OH MY FUCKING GOD WHAT DO YOU MEAN I MISSED YOUR BIRTHDAY?!!! IM SO SORRY OFERJGFERN IM SO MAD IM ONLY FINDING OUT NOW.

IM SENDING YOU ALL THE GODDAMN AMAZING VIBES AND HUGS AND BEST TIMES EVER IN THE WORLD. TY FOR BEING SUCH A WONDERFUL LIGHT IN THIS COMMUNITY AND ABSOLUTELY FEEDING US WITH YOUR ENDLESS RICH CREATIVITY AND BEAUTIFUL MIND!!! YOUR PASSION, ART, AND REFLECTIONS NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME AND FILL ME WITH SM HAPPY STIMS LIKE- AGH!!!!

IM GONNA STOP YELLING NOW BUT ILYSM /P AND HOPE ONLY THE BESTEST THINGS EVER HAPPEN FOR YOU AND AND YOUR THE BEST AND AHHHHHHHHH QAQ <33 <33 <3333333

NO WORDS. ONLY CRY.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Finally, it's time for my full @turtlestogetherzine piece reveal! Unfortunately, the leftovers sale seems to have completely sold out before I could get online, so I'm too late for the marketing angle. Here's a link anyway! - https://turtleszine.bigcartel.com/

So many people contributed pieces covering almost all versions of TMNT we've had to date, and my assigned role was to carry the torch for the original Mirage comics, which I was thrilled to be able to do.

I decided to lean into the Turtles in Space arc, which is one of my favorites (Triceratons are just cool okay), and also made sure that it had some good groanworthy puns. Mirage TMNT has this mythical reputation for being Too Hardcore For This Soft World, but it's actually a very goofy comic that's allowed to have a little blood and intensity sometimes. I love that and wanted to make sure the goof came through.

Here's a couple WIPs, including some of my training to emulate that oldschool indie comic style! It was fun trying to get all the shapes and shading right!