At the farm house, Leonardo and Donatello watched on in amusement as their brothers Raphael and Michelangelo spared. Punches and kicks were being delivered on both sides, but it seemed like Raph had an upper hand due to his physique. Mike knew this all to well, as he took each step backwards. He could see Raph smirking, getting overly confident with himself. But Mike had a plan. “You know Raph,” He said as casually has he could. “You may be strong and all, but you are a little…to…SLOW!” With that, he jumped away from Raph’s punches and ran. Raph growled and gave chase. Slow, eh? We’ll see who’s the slowest! He was gaining on his brother, slowly but surely, but suddenly Mike jumped to the right. Raph turned, but not fast enough. He had fallen for Mike’s trap and had run right into the tree Leo and Don were sitting at. Dazed, Raph slumped to the ground. “Ugh, he beat me again…” He groaned while Leo and Don laughed. He then saw his little brother walk up to him with a big grin and throw a victory punch. “OH YEAH! That’s how the champions do it!”

I picked up a tutorial book on manga coloring in my library a few days ago, and decided to try it out on one of my pictures. Good thing I did; this thing came out really well! Must apologize though, for I didn't clean up my lines. That's the reason why I like submitting small pictures - you don't have to worry about cleaning up your lines so much. Ah well...I'll try and fix it up later...hopefully...

I think I'm going to use this type of coloring more often. I mean, compare it to some of my other works, and you can see that I have improved quite a bit. My backgrounds, however, need a lot of work. Desperately Comments are very much appreciated!

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MAJOR EDIT!
I was so sick of looking at that bad background on the first version of the picture. So what did I do? I went and made a new background in...you guessed it, PHOTOSHOP! What would I ever do without you, 30-day trail? *hugs her grace period*

Yeah, new background. Ie, better grass and a lens flare. I won't change anything else now, since I am very happy with it as it is Tell me what you think of ze new background people!

On a side note, thanks to all the people who viewed it! This is probably my best deviation to date, so I'm very happy with how it has been received

Michelangelo ©Mirage Studios