[Fan Comic] Sketches

*oldmanwinters* · 01-22-2009, 08:15 AM

I do like to hone my style every now and then. Most of these are things I've done in the last 4 years or so. These are some various takes on the Turtles I've tried to emulate:

Inspired by the cover of TMNT First Graphics Novel Book III; I did this one fairly recently.

Some of my favorite designs from the Image TMNT run

Old Toon Rat King

Mirage Shredder

From "Turtle Tracks":

*tOkKa* · 01-22-2009, 09:38 AM

-->> ..aww dude, those are so charming ..

i use that word allot , but really ..

god man .. so cool.. cute in a way too.

>v<

*oldmanwinters* · 01-23-2009, 06:49 PM

Thanks, tOkKa, I really appreciate your feedback.

Here's some pages I threw together for a story I had in mind regarding Vampire Fish.... (yeah, I know, too many Joker episodes of Batman: The Animated Series). I was going to try a toon/Mirage hybrid style using the Vampire villian from Volume 1, #29. He poisons the city's water supply and turn all the fish into carries of the vampiric virus. Maybe the whole concept just got too zany for me. But like all my "fan comics" they have no dialogue and remain just isolated pages:

Donatello works to find an antidote for the city's water problem. Much to his chagrin, Raph and Mikey are too busying beating a very hard Konami game.

The Turtles investigate the sewers and stumble upon a nasty surprise.

Leonardo and Raphael are infected!

Rescuing April from the Vampire (still working through what I wanted April and the Turtles to look like).

The Vampire escapes into the night.

April and the Turtles plot to solve the Vamprie outbreak.

*Nickokapo* · 01-23-2009, 08:15 PM

Good job

i like how you did the expression of the turtles' faces and the vampire in the last ones you posted, they look funny.

*cowabunga14* · 01-24-2009, 01:52 PM

Nice stuff! I like the fact that your drawings have a bit of an old toon influence.

*Voltron* · 01-24-2009, 10:33 PM

The more you go, the bigger a fan I become of it. The second batch are very fun to look at, which is difficult to capture in art (I feel, at least).

*Sage Ninja* · 02-06-2009, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

I do like to hone my style every now and then. Most of these are things I've done in the last 4 years or so. These are some various takes on the Turtles I've tried to emulate:

Inspired by the cover of TMNT First Graphics Novel Book III; I did this one fairly recently.

Some of my favorite designs from the Image TMNT run

Old Toon Rat King

Mirage Shredder

From "Turtle Tracks":

dude, these sketches are great! They almost look like story boards!

*oldmanwinters* · 02-06-2009, 09:00 AM

Thanks, Sage Ninja! I plan to upload a few more I have laying around!

*Original TMNT Cartoon Fan* · 02-06-2009, 09:26 AM

These rock

*oldmanwinters* · 02-07-2009, 02:05 PM

Some character sketches:

April is drawn in the "Retro" styles posted on Murph's blog a while back. The Turtle styles are from the "How to Draw TMNT" comic.

TMNT appendages

Quick sketch in the Dan Berger style. I'm not quite satisfied with that eye on the right (which I guess would make it the Turtles' left eye), though.

*oldmanwinters* · 02-11-2009, 03:52 PM

Here's one of my classic OT reimaginations. This starts out with the familiar "New York's Shiniest" storyline but quickly starts to incorporate some other elements of TMNT lore.

It starts with April sneaking into the police warehouse to check out the Rex-1 robot.

These are the very early sketches, still trying to figure out April's appearance.

Big Robot fight to come later!

*shuriken* · 02-28-2009, 12:23 AM

Nice sketches. My personal Faves are the Image Turtle Sketches though. They look really good. I also think you do a good jod with OT April.

notebook · 03-22-2009, 08:11 PM

whoa, these are great. i really like the first one and slash. the toon inspired ones are very nice.

Granitor · 06-28-2010, 08:13 PM

great work man but you should sign your stuff at the bottom

*oldmanwinters* · 03-01-2011, 02:25 PM

Something I threw together last night because I thought it would be neat mix of creepy and humorous!

"Splinter's Worst Nightmare"
http://oldmanwinters.deviantart.com/#/d3aoq8r

I'm thinking of making this into a short story comic, but time will tell.

*Whatswiththeheadbands?* · 09-30-2013, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Mirage Shredder

Wow. That is one buff shredder!

*oldmanwinters* · 09-30-2013, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whatswiththeheadbands?

Wow. That is one buff shredder!

Eh, yeah, that's one of my early attempts to try and imitate the Mirage style. Not a great exhibition of artistic prowess on my part, but it certainly was one of my early attempts to relearn how to draw TMNT characters.

*oldmanwinters* · 03-31-2014, 10:36 PM

Happy April 1st!

April's Day by ~oldmanwinters on deviantART

Seems like it's become an annual tradition of mine to upload an April O'Neil specific piece on April 1st, though this year I avoid the internet cat memes.

*oldmanwinters* · 07-22-2014, 10:17 PM

My tribute to another classic first season episode:

Special thanks to Ulisses31 for help with straightening some of my background lines!

*Refractive Reflections* · 07-22-2014, 11:31 PM

Great stuff oldmanwinters!

I like how you added the details of having each book have a title, and Michelangelo waiting at the balcony.

01-22-2009, 08:15 AM	#1
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	Sketches I do like to hone my style every now and then. Most of these are things I've done in the last 4 years or so. These are some various takes on the Turtles I've tried to emulate: Inspired by the cover of TMNT First Graphics Novel Book III; I did this one fairly recently. Some of my favorite designs from the Image TMNT run Old Toon Rat King Mirage Shredder From "Turtle Tracks": __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items! Last edited by oldmanwinters; 07-03-2017 at 11:53 AM.

01-23-2009, 06:49 PM	#3
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	Shell of the Vamprie Fish Thanks, tOkKa, I really appreciate your feedback. Here's some pages I threw together for a story I had in mind regarding Vampire Fish.... (yeah, I know, too many Joker episodes of Batman: The Animated Series). I was going to try a toon/Mirage hybrid style using the Vampire villian from Volume 1, #29. He poisons the city's water supply and turn all the fish into carries of the vampiric virus. Maybe the whole concept just got too zany for me. But like all my "fan comics" they have no dialogue and remain just isolated pages: Donatello works to find an antidote for the city's water problem. Much to his chagrin, Raph and Mikey are too busying beating a very hard Konami game. The Turtles investigate the sewers and stumble upon a nasty surprise. Leonardo and Raphael are infected! Rescuing April from the Vampire (still working through what I wanted April and the Turtles to look like). The Vampire escapes into the night. April and the Turtles plot to solve the Vamprie outbreak. __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items! Last edited by oldmanwinters; 07-03-2017 at 11:57 AM.

01-24-2009, 01:52 PM	#5
cowabunga14 Lover of Weird Things Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4,014	Nice stuff! I like the fact that your drawings have a bit of an old toon influence. __________________ How can something so beautiful shine on something so dreadful?

01-24-2009, 10:33 PM	#6
Voltron Handsomest Boy in School Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The Realm of SJW Posts: 4,642	The more you go, the bigger a fan I become of it. The second batch are very fun to look at, which is difficult to capture in art (I feel, at least). __________________ I AM FOR ACTUAL! . . . and the White Savior. . . and the Right Hand of God. . .

02-06-2009, 09:00 AM	#8
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	Thanks, Sage Ninja! I plan to upload a few more I have laying around! __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items!

01-22-2009, 09:38 AM	#2
tOkKa tOkKie-Pokie,puddin'n PIE Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Pajamas out of the water on the elephant was sweating a lemon. Posts: 1,729	;] -->> ..aww dude, those are so charming .. i use that word allot , but really .. god man .. so cool.. cute in a way too. >v< __________________ 666 !!terrible2z /GGM!!/T.G.R.I./ ..モンスターのカメを解読しなさい。

01-23-2009, 08:15 PM	#4
Nickokapo Emperor Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Argentina Posts: 5,768	Good job i like how you did the expression of the turtles' faces and the vampire in the last ones you posted, they look funny.

02-06-2009, 09:26 AM	#9
Original TMNT Cartoon Fan Overlord Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sweden Posts: 10,154	These rock These rock

02-07-2009, 02:05 PM	#10
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	Some character sketches: April is drawn in the "Retro" styles posted on Murph's blog a while back. The Turtle styles are from the "How to Draw TMNT" comic. TMNT appendages Quick sketch in the Dan Berger style. I'm not quite satisfied with that eye on the right (which I guess would make it the Turtles' left eye), though. __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items! Last edited by oldmanwinters; 07-03-2017 at 12:08 PM.

02-11-2009, 03:52 PM	#11
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	The Reporter and the Robot Here's one of my classic OT reimaginations. This starts out with the familiar "New York's Shiniest" storyline but quickly starts to incorporate some other elements of TMNT lore. It starts with April sneaking into the police warehouse to check out the Rex-1 robot. These are the very early sketches, still trying to figure out April's appearance. Big Robot fight to come later! __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items! Last edited by oldmanwinters; 07-03-2017 at 12:13 PM.

02-28-2009, 12:23 AM	#12
shuriken Second City Shinobi Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chi-town Posts: 4,182	Nice sketches. My personal Faves are the Image Turtle Sketches though. They look really good. I also think you do a good jod with OT April. __________________ Some things are better left unsaid. This isn't one of them

03-22-2009, 08:11 PM	#13
notebook Hench Mutant Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 275	whoa, these are great. i really like the first one and slash. the toon inspired ones are very nice.

06-28-2010, 08:13 PM	#14
Granitor Thug Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Ohio Posts: 73	great work man but you should sign your stuff at the bottom

03-01-2011, 02:25 PM	#15
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	Something I threw together last night because I thought it would be neat mix of creepy and humorous! "Splinter's Worst Nightmare" http://oldmanwinters.deviantart.com/#/d3aoq8r I'm thinking of making this into a short story comic, but time will tell. __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items! Last edited by oldmanwinters; 07-03-2017 at 12:36 PM.

03-31-2014, 10:36 PM	#18
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	April's Day Happy April 1st! April's Day by ~oldmanwinters on deviantART Seems like it's become an annual tradition of mine to upload an April O'Neil specific piece on April 1st, though this year I avoid the internet cat memes. __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items! Last edited by oldmanwinters; 09-18-2019 at 09:11 AM.

07-22-2014, 10:17 PM	#19
oldmanwinters Overlord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Between yesterday and tomorrow! Posts: 14,920	"I fear we are about to join our ancestors!" My tribute to another classic first season episode: Special thanks to Ulisses31 for help with straightening some of my background lines! __________________ Experience the TMNT Fan Commentaries! Check out my TMNT fan comic, "Nothing to Fear"! View my sketch work! I'm selling some of my hard-to-find TMNT items! Last edited by oldmanwinters; 07-03-2017 at 02:26 PM.

07-22-2014, 11:31 PM	#20
Refractive Reflections Mad Scientist $Refractive Reflections's Avatar$ Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 2,371	Great stuff oldmanwinters! I like how you added the details of having each book have a title, and Michelangelo waiting at the balcony.
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