Sketchbook class 2024 Prompt: Limited colour

(Ink-tober/TMNT-tober 5: Map/Adventure)

The boys’ mission of trying to investigate the Kraang and their origins gone very wrong. They definitely weren’t expecting a reality defying maze of corridors that send you walking in circles indefinitely, lol, they’ll figure it out eventually.

Leo’s inner monologue: “can you retire at 16?”

An Abandoned Homage...

So, it’s no secret that I LOVE making homages to my favorite cartoonists and comic artists for “Finding Dee”. I’ve done a bunch for strips that inspired me such as “Garfield”, “Peanuts”, “Calvin & Hobbes” and more. I’ve also done a few for different styles of comics, like the work of Mike Mignola, Walter Simonson and even Al Williamson. Those, however, are a little different. In those, the “model” for my cartoon avatar is basically still the way I draw it, with the rendering style of the artists I admire pasted over them. Those are kinda more… style OVERLAYS as opposed to direct style homages. And, it turns out, there’s a very good REASON for this. A reason that became abundantly clear with a strip idea that has since been abandoned. See the above piece… That was to be an homage to Frank Miller’s classic “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns”. It was a massively influential book on me and one I had a script for a strip that I wanted to homage. This was… to put it mildly… as far as I got. This was the 3rd attempt, with the first two having proportions MUCH closer to Miller's famous cover of issue #2 of DKR. Those I outright loathed seeing, so I altered the proportions more to my own model sheet, trying instead to just overlay the rough, craggly line style Miller used on the comic. This was coming out fine, but was causing me some AGRESSIVELY uncomfortable gender dysphoria drawing. I couldn't look at it without seeing the image I really try to NOT see when I look in the mirror, and not in a good way. It was making me hear every jerk and transphobe snickering in the back of my mind, and that is NOT a good or healthy thing. I poured over Miller’s work, and found a remarkably thin selection of women that weren’t his specific brand of hyper-sexualized cartooning or… well… women that looked like bloated tree trunks. There was not a lot of middle ground. I did not want to draw an entire comic strip where, in order to homage the Dark Knight Returns, I had to draw myself like a gnarled, knotted rhino-mutation. That would NOT do well with my sense of self-esteem. I mean, I’m not always kind to myself in cartoon form, but I’m not this:

Curse you, TCRI!!

Now, and I say this KNOWING it will be more controversial, this is the same reason I’ve yet to pull off a Jack Kirby homage. I could homage his stylistic quirks and rendering style, but to try and draw MYSELF like a Kirby woman would be… unsettling. The King drew a LOT of lovely ladies, but anyone that wasn’t a pin-up model started looking a smidge on the... rough side, too. So, if you’re wondering why I almost EXCLUSIVELY homage comic STRIP and cartoony artists when I do homages, this is a BIG part of why. I don’t mind drawing myself like a potato. I just don’t want that potato to look like it was grown in Chernobyl.

(Twilight Zone theme plays)

Everyone, welcome to the Donnie has a Bad Time Club.

Seriously, I write way too much Leo angst fics. XD So I went with Donnie for this one. Dr. Jennifer Marwood is my OC.

Running from the Vultures, chapter 4: Escape

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40830093/chapters/104151198

Just a little Mikey doodle for fans of the 2012 show. Greg Cipes' performance is fantastic, of course, and the mixed media, stop-motion look of the show is so cool. Plus, Rob Paulsen is back? Yes, please!

Original ink drawing (RadarRider87)

"Yesterday's" Comic> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7

Leave it to the Turtles to turn the pineapple topping debate into…this. By the way, how are anchovies doing? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7 Mirage Publishing (March, 1986) WRITERS/ARTISTS: Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird LETTERER: Steve Lavigne Continue reading Untitled

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Fun (comics) fact: DareDevil & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have the same origin story.

Day 4! Prompt: Ooze!

Baby turtles! So cute!

Alt version under the cut:

#NECA #TOON #TMNT "#Mouser" set includes what I believe is the VERY 1st toy ( and a tiny one at that) of the "#TubularTransport" bits.. #Krang's security and spy #drones. Dating not just from a 1 off appearance in the OG 1987 cartoon, but in the classic TMNT arcade game but to the #MirageStudios comics themselves. A version of the bugs were security for the #TCRi building. 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🤖💥 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cei4zqiO6rl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My new TMNT SHAKER KEYCHAIN will be for sale next month! 🐢🐢🐢🐢✨

Im going to sell it at events this year, but I thought I’d post it here in case anyone was interested in it

I have more tmnt related merch but I was not sure of posting it here 🐢🐢🐢🐢

"Smoke and Mirrors"

Leo when he's a bit older and a bit more powerful. It's not a great descriptor of what this move entails, but that'll come later >:3

Also I'm gonna try and be more active here now that Elon is apparently just feeding every post into his new AI. Uh, my art ain't goin' in there MuskMan. Ick.

so this armoured truck chasing the turtles isnt the police its TCRI but wait! whos that!

could that be CYNTHIA UTROM?

Secret Origins of the TMNT

With the latest movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem coming to theaters soon, I’d thought we should delve into the events and forces that made the Ninja Turtles team what they are. Lately it seems that so many adaptations focus on the 80s toon that the original circumstances are lost. Before we go any further, Let me state that this is taken from the original Mirage Comics version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with images scanned from the digital colored collection released through Apple Books. Please do not hate me. There may be some imagery too intense for young readers. Please exercise caution.

Our story starts in Japan, some 20 years before the start of the series. In the mysterious ninja organization called the Foot, Hamato Yoshi was one of their best. His only rival was a fellow ninja named Oroku Nagi, and to paraphrase the 90s live movie, “They competed in all things, but none more fiercely than for the love of a woman, Tang Shen.”

Shen only loved Yoshi, however, so it wasn’t much of contest. Nagi couldn’t stand it, though, and one night confronted Shen in her home. He demanded she love him, and when she refused, he began to beat on her. Yoshi happened by, and seeing his love abused so badly caused him to fly into a blind rage. By the time he stopped seeing red, Nagi was dead. 

Having killed a clan member, Yoshi fled Japan with Shen to America, eventually ending up in New York City where Yoshi started his own dojo.

Back in Japan, Nagi’s younger brother Saki mourned his brother’s death, and swore vengeance, throwing himself into his training. Years later, Saki was sent to New York City and start a Foot branch there. Under Saki’s leadership, the New York Foot became involved in all manner of criminal activities, with Saki becoming known as The Shredder for his bladed armor.

One night, 15 years ago, the Shredder tracked down the Hamatos. After murdering Shen, killed Yoshi when the latter returned home. 

With his vengeance achieved, the Shredder continued to expand the Foot’s reach unopposed.

...But Yoshi had a pet rat, Splinter. Splinter’s cage was kept in Yoshi’s practice rooms both in Japan and New York City, and from watching Yoshi practice, the rat became knowledgeable in the ninja arts as well. 

During the Shredder’s murder of the Hamatos, Splinter’s cage was broken open in the struggle. His family dead, Splinter was force onto the streets to scavage for food.

What no party realized was that New York City was also home to an alien race called the Utroms. The Utroms had crashed their ship some years before, and with no way to call home for rescue, infiltrated human society. 

They eventually started a shell company in NYC, the Techno Cosmic Research Institute, with which they could try and devise a way home with mankind’s comparatively primitive technology. While transporting the salvage from their ship’s crash site to TCRI, a blind man wandered onto the street. 

A young man saved the old, but in swerving to avoid collusion, the TCRI van’s back door opened a canister of ooze fell out. The canister struck the hero in the head, and bounced erratically away. At this time, another small boy named Chet had just purchase a bowl of four pet turtles. The wayward canister knocked the bowl out of the boy’s hands and into the sewers.

Splinter witnessed this, and going into the sewers found the lost turtles covered in a glowing, green ooze that had leaked from the broken canister. For reasons even he didn’t understand, Splinter chose to gather the turtles for himself. But the ooze had mutagenic properties, causing Splinter and the turtles to grow and become more human, even capable of human speech! 

Splinter chose to teach the turtles all he had learned from Hamato Yoshi, and gave them names taken from a nearby book on Renaissance painters; Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael.

...In the present, the Foot in New York had become a major power in the city’s underworld. But what their leader, the Shredder didn’t realize was that his battle with Hamato Yoshi was not finished yet. That right under his nose, his greatest enemies were waiting for the right time...to strike.

"Something else might come through!"

"What do we do now?!"

"Leatherhead! Something else is coming through!"

"We'll be back."

I love her with all my heart and soul but genuinely what was she thinking trying to walk into an isolated space where a thief stole her scooter and she was just gonna???ask for it back???