This is where my art goes.
(originally Mystic Baby Mikey AU)
Main Story:
Episode 0 - Promise
Miscellaneous:
Specific Tags this AU is under: #mystic baby mikey au, #mystic kid au, #raising your mystic kid au
Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.
A Plea for Help from Gaza: A Family Seeking Safety
Hello, I am Mohammed Alanqer, married to Enas Majed, and we have four wonderful children.
We live in the midst of the ongoing hellish war in Gaza, trapped between walls of fear and despair. I, Mohammed, am a father of four children and a husband to a woman who was two months pregnant when the war began.
We struggle daily to survive in an environment filled with threats and dangers.
I lost our sole source of livelihood when my tech startup, which I built with dedication and hard work, was destroyed in the war. My children, Layan, Sarah, and Adam, have been deprived of education after their schools were destroyed, severely threatening their future. Amidst these harsh circumstances, my wife gave birth to our fourth child, Amir, in the midst of the war, adding to our state of despair and hopelessness.
My wife, Enas, lives in constant anxiety due to the destruction of hospitals in our area. I have lost my job and source of income, leaving me unable to provide for my family's needs and safety. Our home was destroyed by the war, forcing us to flee repeatedly and rendering us homeless.
We now face extreme difficulty in providing a safe place to live, clean clothes, and food for our children. Additionally, our children have contracted diseases like measles, and our son Adam has been diagnosed with viral hepatitis.
Our only hope now is to escape this ongoing nightmare and find a safe haven for our family. However, this requires exorbitant financial costs; the coordination fees for crossing the borders amount to $5000 per adult and $2500 per child, a sum I cannot afford alone.
We urgently appeal for your moral and financial assistance to cover the necessary costs for escaping to a safe environment, where we can build a better future for our children and ensure our family's safety.
We are in desperate need of your support. Any donation, no matter how small, can help save our lives. Thank you for your attention and support during these harsh times.
GoFundMe Campaign Link ♥️ :
With deepest respect and gratitude,
Mohammed Alanqer 🌺🌹
🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉
Note :
You are more than just a team; you are reliable friends in challenging times. I am grateful for your swift response and ongoing support. I look forward to working with you again to repost the message and reach as many people as possible.
Thanks to your efforts, together we can create new opportunities and spread goodness in the community. I am confident that your continued engagement will help us achieve this common goal.
I wanted to share some sad news with you: my old Tumblr account was deactivated without my knowledge. I had wonderful memories and meaningful interactions with you all, and I found the Tumblr community to be the most cooperative and helpful.🥺🥹
I am very happy to be here again, and I hope you can help me in reposting the post I was working on. This post is not just words, but a part of a fundraising campaign aimed at saving my family and supporting them in these difficult times.
I hope, as I always knew you, that you will extend a helping hand and assist in spreading this message to reach as many people as possible.
Mohammed Alanqer
Hello 👋 🤗,
I hope you are well 🌺.
I am writing to you with a heart full of hope and faith, asking for your urgent help. My family is in great danger due to the war, and I am running a fundraising campaign to save them.
Please, could you reblog the post about my campaign on my account? Every share can make a difference in my family's life. 🙏
Note:My old Tumblr account was deactivated💔, and I need your support again♥️.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for any help you can provide. 🌹🌺
Hello Mohammed!
Of course I can do that <3
Hey my friends! Mohammed and his family need our support!
Here's their GoFundMe:
some warmup doodles--trying to make mikey's hair less splinter like
also a quick sneak peek at a couple of WIP panel from the comic below the cut ;)
thinking about the times before
the relationship that Kenji and his dad had before everything fell apart makes me very emotional
Your turtle tots are the cutest thing! Are you continuing the au?
I'm still working on it! It just takes me a while to do the comics, sorry it's slow to update.
I'm posting doodles of stuff I think is fun in the meantime (ie the sudden surge of Ultraman stuff lol sorry) but don't worry these turtles have cemented themselves in my brain :)
Edit: thank you so much btw, I'm glad you like the tots so far <3
i can't get the knowledge that kenji is half alien and also has an insane batting average out of my head. like dude
Question, will Leo get jealous of Mikey’s hair?
not when they're younger, he's probably more jealous of his ninpo when they're kids--I think the closer Leo gets to being a teenager though, he'll be more jealous of mikey's hair
Hello, Sorry to bother you but I wanted to ask if you do request?
Hey! I don't do requests, sorry. I don't have a ton of free time...
watched the new ultraman movie a couple of days ago
it's very good and so beautiful! go watch it if you have the chance! :)
WIP Post! This one's taking me so long lolll sorry!
Pizza break!
just experimenting with some new brushes
Thank you for @sticker-star-sketchbook for letting me dub over their work!
I really wish she had more screen time, makes me wonder if the original scripts had more for her since rise season 3 got canceled mid creation on season 2
@mushroomgrenade Did a fantastic dub of my comic! It's fun hearing the characters brought to life :)
thanks haha!
to be fair rise made insanely adorable turtle tots
but here's a breakdown of my drawing process when it comes to the tots (and just drawing babies v adults in general):
(buckle up for a lot of images and rambling XD)
cute-ness essentially boils down to proportions and shape language--ie the smaller and rounder you are, the cuter you tend to be
when you're a baby, you're smaller and squishier--so mikey's head is a 1/3 of his body as a toddler, but 1/6 as a teenager
also limbs tend to be stubby and short when you're younger, I tend to emphasize that by not drawing mikey with visible toes as a tot because it makes him feel like he hasn't grown as much yet
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when it comes to the face proportions are super important to emphasize the cute
babies tend to be cuter because their facial features are closer together and they have big eyes, which makes them much easier to connect with
as you grow, your face stretches out, your eyes appear smaller, and your mouth and nose will drop further and further away from your eyes
also you lose baby fat as you grow up, making your face sharper (best seen with raph 'cause mikey's shape language is all circles)
here's an example from moana, watch as the older she gets, the longer her face gets and the less round her cheeks are:
and of course in real life, same as moana, the older someone gets, the less round they become and facial features fill out the head more, rather than being bunched together:
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to end, i learned a lot about this by drawing from life and observing kids and adults--this is essential to learning how to draw and from looking at other artists and what they suggested when it comes to drawing cute, Griz and Norm are a great resource for this and in other general drawing tips :)
when it comes down to it, when aiming for cute, the chunkier and smaller and rounder the better
anyway, that was long, hope that was what you meant to ask lol XD
still here! just busy lol--did more rewrites, trying to make the comics a bit more character driven ;)
here's some doodles of mikey and raph when they're older and some mikey showing off his ninpo to donnie (also! a messy f!mikey painting i did ages ago that I still like)
