Fan Comic [Roughs]- Dooney style!

[oldmanwinters]

Here are some comic pages I drew a while back. I wasn't trying to make a full story, just trying to emulate Dooney's art in Archie's TMNT Adventures Mini Series.










Somehow I accidently made the far left panels flow together to the extent that it looks like the plot of TMNT Adventures 25!




I'm not surewhat I was emulating here. Just trying an old toon style on the plot of Mirage vol. 1 #2.

Giant Size:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...oneystyle1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...neystyle2b.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...neystyle3b.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...oneystyle4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...oneystyle5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...oneystyle6.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...oneystyle7.jpg

[shuriken]

Cool pics. But just a little bit of a suggestion here, try to reduce the size of 'em cuz they are a bit too big to follow and see the whole thing. I must say you did an awesome job with April and the punks. Everyone else looks good as well, it's just April and the goons were my faves, very Dooney.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by shuriken

Cool pics. But just a little bit of a suggestion here, try to reduce the size of 'em cuz they are a bit too big to follow and see the whole thing. I must say you did an awesome job with April and the punks. Everyone else looks good as well, it's just April and the goons were my faves, very Dooney.

Thanks, it's funny that as a kid I always used to draw the Turtles and never humans. But now I'm much better at humans than Turtles! I love Dooney's version of pre-mutated Rocksteady and April.

I'm still not satisfied with my Turtles. I've seen so many styles of TMNT that I just can't decide which way I like them best. Their hands and feet usually give me no end of frurstration! Also among my artistic peeves... forearms!

[shuriken]

Ha yeah as a kid I hated drawing humans I always drew their legs too damn small. Especially women, I never know how to go about their um, assets. As for the Turtles, I like to mess around with different styles, but I usually draw them as a hybrid of OT and 2K3 turtles. My peeves are the feet, because they're so easy to screw up and distort.
thanks for the size reduction, it's a lot easier to see now.

[Tony Day]

Very good Adam Luv it, I think you should do your own strip! Dooney Style
Btw, when did April talk to Baxter? That wasnt in the pilot.
Personally I dont find the Turtles forearms the worse to draw. Their heads are hell to draw!, as in they dont make any sense. especailly when your looking up at them from a worms eye view.

[Nickokapo]

Good job, i agree it's very dooney-ish (i'm not so familiar with his art but i recognise his turtle's heads), love the krang in page 6 too.
I'm not really one to be saying this, but if you want a suggestion you may want to try making the lines a bit more smoother & loose

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Tony Day

Very good Adam Luv it, I think you should do your own strip! Dooney Style
Btw, when did April talk to Baxter? That wasnt in the pilot.
Personally I dont find the Turtles forearms the worse to draw. Their heads are hell to draw!, as in they dont make any sense. especailly when your looking up at them from a worms eye view.

Ha, a strip sounds interesting. I think comedy would be my thing. Maybe I should revive the TMNT daily strip tradition?
Reference:
http://www.gocomics.com/teenagemutan...ef=tmnt_gce_b5

April never talked to Baxter in the pilot. That page was my attempt to reimagine the second issue of the Mirage TMNT series with an OT style. (I took the rat from a page in the Archie comic)
Original reference:
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/two/pg05.htm
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/two/pg09.htm
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/two/pg10.htm

Originally Posted by Nickokapo

Good job, i agree it's very dooney-ish (i'm not so familiar with his art but i recognise his turtle's heads), love the krang in page 6 too.
I'm not really one to be saying this, but if you want a suggestion you may want to try making the lines a bit more smoother & loose

Thanks for the advice, Nick. I wish I could develop a looser style. But the journey from the mind to the hand sometimes feels more like miles than inches.
Got any visual aids that could help me?

[Nickokapo]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

But the journey from the mind to the hand sometimes feels more like miles than inches.

That's true, i know this all too well ops

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Thanks for the advice, Nick. I wish I could develop a looser style.
Got any visual aids that could help me?

No problem, what i do personally is i just draw a bunch of circles and lines to get more relaxed a whole lot of them...and then maybe try making sweeping lines in the direction each one in the drawing i think would be going (just 1 line from start to finish, if it doesn't come out right i delete the line completely and redraw, but never halfway thru)
Here's my attempt at visual aid




Just look for gesture drawing in google and that should probably bring up better stuff than what i can explain.
There's a thread in this forum full of tutorials so you might want to check that out too for useful info
Edit: that's just what i keep in mind when trying to get smoother lines tho, usually my drawings look really chaotic

[Samhain]

great work

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by samhain88

great work

Thanks! I have some more doodles laying around (not necessarily Dooney style). Maybe I'll post a few more sometime.

EDIT: I've added some new stuff (non-Dooney style) on this thread:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sho...568#post664568