#artistnotes

In the meantime - please accept this preview of the next installment in "the break in" series (as it's been dubbed):

Is there anything in your fic/comic that you as the author know about, but won't end up in the actual story?

Hmmmm... I have a lot of little moments from the Grown Apart cast's individual upbringings that are kinda floating around in my head, but I have no idea yet if they'll make it into the comics. So, I'm not sure if those count. There are a few little canon details that I haven't figured out how to include in the comics just yet, though. Such as:

Donnie speaking in a posh English accent...but only some of the time - mostly when he's not with his family or if he's trying to impress someone. Reason being: Donnie doesn't naturally talk like Big Mama (though he may have adopted a tinge of her inflection with certain words or vowels), it's mostly something he puts on intentionally to sound more...closely related to her? It's become a habit, and he doesn't always realize when he's doing it anymore, unless the others point it out. But it disappears the moment he gets too worked-up/excited about something.

Because Mikey spent so much time looking for ways to occupy himself while Leo was off causing mischief with his friends, he has a wide range of obscure talents & skills, many of which I'll probably never end up showing in canon because they're not particularly relevant to the plot. For example: - Guitar playing - Card stacking - Cup stacking - Solving a rubix cube in under 3 minutes - Painting/writing with his toes - Ballet (beginner level, but he's working on it) - Making music with water glasses - Yo-yo tricks - Acrobatics - Silk flying - The ancient art of the Japanese tea ceremony - Crochet - Playing Chopsticks on his shell (with chopsticks)

That's all I've got off the top of my head right now. Unless you're referring to things like "ideas that were originally going to be part of the canon, but got scrapped somewhere along the way." There's a LOT of those, lol. Some of which I might still end up sharing at some point, because I illustrated a few of them early on when I was doing story beats, and I like the illustrations despite them not being accurate anymore.

Rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet and tell us about it!

[OOF, okay- I can't possibly list everything in my wips folder here, so I'll just put the most recent (and hopefully this will push me to finish them). Most of my titles are pretty straight-forward, but some of them might be a bit cryptic if you don't know the abbreviations, I guess (lol). Alrighty, let's go!]

Art WIPS:

GA Character ConArt (ROTTMNT)

Birthday24

Calder R Design Sheet

APT Sketches

ROTTMNT GA AU - Beats

Sona Concepts

GA TAC - Interact01

GA TAC - Plot01

GA TAC - Interact02

GA TAC - asks01

Disconnected ConArt (ROTTMNT)

Human Designs ConArt (ROTTMNT)

GA Chara Profiles (ROTTMNT)

SoPMeme (ROTTMNT)

Disconnected Comic A101

Writing WIPS:

GA AU Snippets

Grown Apart AU - Outline (ROTTMNT)

Shades of Purple - Notes (ROTTMNT)

Disconnected Beats (ROTTMNT)

Collab Rise Proj. Notes

Disconnected AU - Planning (ROTTMNT)

Apoc. Future HC (Rise)

Annalise (Overview)

The Story of the First King

30-90 - Storyboard (Rise)

Disconnected AU - Beats

Short Donnie+April Scene Script

Warrior of the Mind

Character Profiles (revised)

Patient-0 (Story Concept)

Ah, so- As the title implies, all of the clones do have a different shade of purple. (However, since there's like...somewhere around 30 clones, I've had to cheat and dip a little into the pink/red and indigo pool for some, lol).

I can't give you specific shades for specific clones just yet, because I'm still working that out, but I can tell you a bit about my thought process when it comes to picking them*:

Strong or intense personality traits are represented by vibrant/highly saturated colors. Whereas more subdued personality traits are represented by softer, muted tones.

If a trait leans more towards the "passion" side of the spectrum, it's usually going to be represented by a hue with more red in it. If it's closer to "melancholy" or "apathy," it'll likely have a bluer hue.

And obviously, in both cases, neutral is somewhere in the middle.

(Fun fact: canon Donnie's, AKA "Donnie Prime's", color is a neutral purple, often called "True Purple.")

To help put this into perspective a little bit, here are some off-the-top-of-my-head examples: - Anxious Donnie's color is a deep, but saturated, almost-blue indigo. - Romantic Donnie's shade is vibrant and very close to red/magenta. - "Bad Emotions" Donnie is also close to blue, but it's a more desaturated hue than Anxious Donnie's - almost grey. - And Intellectual Donnie's is just a slightly less saturated neutral purple than Donnie Prime's. It's probably the closest to Donnie's canon shade out of all of the clones.

The darkness of the hue is relevant, too - it usually has to do with positive vs negative moods. But since not all of the clones are emotion-based, this one isn't always consistent and can change depending on other factors.

I've gone ahead and submitted Grown Apart for the @tmntaucompetition!

If you like the AU and are interested in seeing it compete against other AUs, please consider dropping a nomination!

I know there's not a lot of time left before submissions close, and there are like a million AUs in this fandom rn, so there's absolutely zero pressure.

But - if you happen to have some time today and you want to support the AU, help it get some exposure, then a quick nomination would really make my day!

The plot is on pause today, since I need to focus on completing my submissions for the main bracket (and maybe take the opportunity to answer some asks that have been piling up). Any on-going interactions will be saved in drafts and responded to tomorrow or a little later.

In the meantime, since the next round of polls is just around the corner - allow me to provide some incentive to vote my kiddos through!

For each round that Grown Apart AU wins, I'll post some special behind-the-scenes content! Including (but not limited to):

Main character profiles

An ACT I relationship chart

Never-before-seen character designs

Inside info about Big Mama's Assistant

One of the completed ACT I story beats

Childhood snippets

GA SHELLDON's concept art

If any of these sound like things you'd be interested in seeing, then please consider casting your vote for Grown Apart in the @tmntaucompetition!!!

So far. I think I'll stop there, just to keep it easy on myself, but feel free to continue making up others that are not listed if you want. LOL.