A Promise Is A Promise (It Said, Hiding That He Already Had The Redesign Done Weeks Ago)

A promise is a promise (It said, hiding that he already had the redesign done weeks ago)

His father Shredder gave him a new name because he had no memory. And OF COURSE it had to be "Cold Blood" and his stupid last name. AND obviously he also gave him a mask that resembles the Rise Shredder skull

Because HE JUST HAD TO SHOW OFF THAT HE ALSO HAS A TURTLE SON, YOSHI! AND HIS IS A CANNIBAL, YOSHI

MichelAngelo from @greatlyblessed Swapverse

(aka Swap!Mikey, aka Evil Mikey, aka DJ Pain)

Full page of my desing for him!

I've been studying character design for a while, and the ones I struggle with the most are the villains.

Because, plain and simple, I don't understand what characteristics create that prejudice in the public, that they see them and instantly say "okay, that's the bad guy".

So I thought: I need less pressure, make drawing fun again!... Let's practice with our favorite franchise! The ninja turtles.

And that's where I found A Mixed Bag and the Swap Turtles

"The Alignment-Swap Universe (or, Swapverse) is an original turtle 'verse in which pretty much all character's alignment is swapped. So the TMNT of this universe are evil, whereas Shredder and Krang are good guys out to stop them from menacing the citizens of New York."

I just LOVE Mikey's characterization in this universe. He is so unintimidating and so dangerous.

Mikey was my first choice because, truth be told, I was intrigued by the kind of villain he is. The kid is an entity of chaos trapped in the body of a turtle, I don't know what the hell he's capable of and that terrifies me to no end but he's so charismatic. I just love every dialogue of him.

And the appearance of someone like that was a challenge…

Shit, fuck, damn… I love a good challenge

I took Halloween pumpkins, Harley Quinn's classic look and put them in a blender with a teenage skater whose brain plays music 24/7. AND BAM! Swap Mikey's look.

Some details:

The forked tongue is in honor of the Dark Turtles from 2003, the first evil turtles I met, Mikey's counterpart had this long chameleon tongue and I wanted to give something similar to my boy.

The stop sign and danger tape are to represent hes nature as the team's "wild card" and along with the triangles throughout the design express danger.

The few circles are to give an illusion of tenderness and softness. Yk, because he's the heart

(What else?)

He has a pendant that was going to be two M's but in the end I reduced it to just one

The smile scar was originally going to be one side only

Those colored balls are actually bombs

He has star stickers

I was minding my own business, reading tmnt crossover fanfic in AO3 like an exemplary citizen, when one of these sacred texts gave me an idea... What if... 2012 Shredder adopts Rise Leo?

And I was like- THAT DOES MAKE SO MUCH SENSE, ME! OF COURSE WE DOING IT LIKE RIGHT FUCKING NOW

He is Shredder sassy adopted son that suffers from memory loss

Shredder kidnapped another son of Hamato Yoshi (and this one is from another dimension)

Karai is a big sister, she does her baby brother make up

Leo's brothers are not happy about any of this

The 12 boys have a new enemy and Ohhhhhhh... this one knows how not to look intimidating while trying to kill them, it even looks like they are in a friendly spar!

Leo is being the most flamboyant villian ever and making Draxum proud

OKEY!

SO I WATCHED

SONIC PRIME

YESTERDAR

AND-

Kinda... Maybe... Just a little...

Made a Alternative Sonic

Let me show you my new boy (promise I gonna color him later)

HIS NAME IS RITMO AND HE IS MY VERSION OF SONIC FROM NEW YOKE CITY

So

Since the shaderverse did not have more than one Sonic before, but now it does... It was looking for an excuse so that this person hadn't been part of anyone's life before. And that excuse would be

This boy was in a juvenile penitentiary

For 3 years

*ejem* So ehm... Jaja

He did a graffiti about the council when he was like twelve, and no legal tutor so they put him in 'kids jail" for a while. The council doesn't remember because that didn't happened. So when they were suppose to renew this street rat (what? They call him that way) imprisonment for another year... They didn't. And he is F R E E now

Description:

Manic Pixie Dream Girl energy

"Reasons to not die" number 1: scream songs at four in the morning

Loves ALL music genders

Favorite song? Girl all the bad guys want, because bestie i'm that girl fr

Hates all form of autority, Is still very inmature so his train of thought was basically "if one type of authority is bad then all of them are bad"

Doesn't do fighting, violence is so violent bro

Oh! Don't mind me, I'm just gonna steal a little more of... Everything

"Good vibes" kind of friend

"Bless his heart, he is doing his best" kind of trauma boy

Ah yes! And if you wanna know what draw put him in the cage it was this one!

I call this piece... The Cuoncil Of Eggs *laugh's in prison cell*

Baby boy baby <3

why does he look like that

AHHHH COMO ME ENCANTAN ESTOS DIBUJOS DE EDIFICIOS Y CALLES Y Y Y ME ENCANTA

This was my first assignment on TMNT in Early 2021. I asked asked to do a Bodega and a pizza shop and generally figure out the look of our nyc streets. This eventually got handed off to Alger Tam and the resulting collab piece became the target for one of Mikros Animation‘s earlier 3d tests. This made it into the movie as a night time shot with April driving down it on her new bike. Ive also included some of my earlier more graphite and ink style sketches.