Illust19 days ago112 views

April looking at the FUTURE

TLDR: The other day I came across a picture of a Hitachi catalogue, I, and many people have commented how the woman posing in that cover, looks almost like the 1987 TMNT version of April 0´Neil. Thus I decided to make this fanart, based on that piece of promotional photography. I followed as best as I could the official model sheets produced for the cartoon series. Also I have to mention that I was going to make an alternate version featuring April's redesign in the "RED SKY" seasons, something I may do later, who knows. This little fanart was done to basically try and combat the growing pains of an artist's block--wish me luck guys-- =ⒻⓊⓃ ⒻⒶⒸⓉ= The model number and letters present in the camera April is holding are a "hidden reference" that is a bit convoluted but makes sense to some degree, but here's the explanation: - MIRAEYE [which sounds like the word MIRAI, which is "Future" in Japanese], but the G, if you remove the YE and position the G between the A and E... you get the word "MIRAGE" - K is shorter for Kevin Eastman and P is shorter for Peter Laird - 84 is short for the year 1984, the year the first issue of the TMNT comic was published by Mirage. Nuff said~ See you next time folks! And godspeed, may this mental block soon end...