Almost there! Dunno if I wanna do a kiriban... just in case I change my mind though, please feel free to send me a link to a screen shot of 50k views! Depending on if I'm able to get all this stuff done I might do a little something for a special someone. I'd prefer to do a portrait from a photo since that's been my focus lately.

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In art history we're studying the classical artists like Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo. I find it so funny that none of the Ninja Turtles fit the artists they were named after too well (besides Donatello maybe since the artist created a new way of sculpting which innovated the art of sculpture, but when it comes to inventors and brains Leonardo the artist takes the cake). It's interesting that the creators didn't give the same personalities as the artists to the Ninja Turtles, or maybe they purposely just switched them around?

If they were to have the personalities of the artists they were named after, Mikey and Raph would switch names and Donny and Leo would switch names. I'm not sure of what personality Donatello the artist had but he's much more similar to Leonardo in the sense that he's more of a leader figure to the other 3 artists for innovating how sculpture can look much more life-like with solid bodies beneath the drapery (using the wet cloth technique). He was one of the handful of early Renaissance artists who paved the way for the better known ones such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.

Donatello the turtle is practically the reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci, the man who wanted to know everything. Donny is a bit better at focusing on a single task, though, and builds most of what he thinks up, whereas Leonardo da Vinci had severe ADD and rarely stuck to a single passion for too long and made many plans for inventions but wasn't known to create any of them. However, a documentary I recently saw built them and found that they all worked and were absolutely amazing and pure genius.

Michelangelo the artist was the most hot-headed, short-tempered, self-absorbed artist perhaps to ever exist. He lived in the same time as Leonardo and Raphael and thought it was insulting that they considered themselves artists. He felt he had invented perfection through his work, never afraid to argue to the death with his patrons when they said they'd like some changes to be made the the work they hired him to make.

Raphael the artist was quite a genius in his own right but was quite a friendly man. He and the personality-of-a-rock Michelangelo were not on good terms, but as soon as he saw the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo had created he immediately returned to his finished painting of the "School of Athens", chiseled out a part of the fresco and painted a portrait of Michelangelo as a tribute to him and his work. He included his friends and relatives in much of his work, representing historical figures like Plato, Aristotle and Socrates. He died at a young age (before age 40) from a short-term illness which his body may have been too weak to fight off since he was such a party animal and perhaps a heavy drinker.

I've always wanted to know if the Ninja Turtles fit the artists they were named after and now, at the age of 22, I know the answer is "no, but they can if you switch them".

Are Oroku Saki or Omato Yoshi named after anyone? :/