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:

http://i.imgur.com/U5eNnrJl.jpg
Inspired by the cover of TMNT First Graphics Novel Book III; I did this one fairly recently.

http://i.imgur.com/3rciVwTl.jpg
Some of my favorite designs from the Image TMNT run

http://i.imgur.com/2cvgny9l.jpg
Old Toon Rat King

http://i.imgur.com/3nCOODal.jpg
Mirage Shredder

From "Turtle Tracks":
http://i.imgur.com/1eQFQWrl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bjh3UXul.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/04uehDVl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QAiwJrFl.jpg

;]
 

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

i use that word allot , but really ..

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

>v<:D

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:
http://i.imgur.com/BS2ajcol.jpg
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.;)

http://i.imgur.com/QdK0FBIl.jpg
The Turtles investigate the sewers and stumble upon a nasty surprise.

http://i.imgur.com/me3ZY30l.jpg
Leonardo and Raphael are infected!

http://i.imgur.com/jGo4k9wl.jpg
Rescuing April from the Vampire (still working through what I wanted April and the Turtles to look like).

http://i.imgur.com/bxZSjJMl.jpg
The Vampire escapes into the night.

http://i.imgur.com/23IV2vWl.jpg
April and the Turtles plot to solve the Vamprie outbreak.

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

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).

Thanks to all who've left the kind words. While I may lack in proportion and technique, I try to make sure I always make my characters fun to look at and invest some emotion in the drawings. I appreciate you noticing!

Now if only I could perfect that line art...

More to come!

looks good

http://i.imgur.com/acHVZ8pl.jpg
Various Splinter concepts!

http://i.imgur.com/JnkcwXWl.jpg
Regular Turtle, Gamera Raph, April and Catwoman April sketches

Pretty kewl drawings dude! Keep it up:D Droodle some with shredder together with his two hench mutants:P

Here's one of those I did:
http://i.imgur.com/fTUm6f0l.jpg
Shredder is too busy to pay attention to his stupid but lovable goons.
[Little problem with Bebop's feet being on a level plane, but I was thinking about the right foot being further away from the viewer. Wish I'd done a better job of that]

You do a really good job with this sketches. Love all of them :D

expressive
 

i really enjoy your sketches especially the expressions of your characters, nicely done.

Irma
 

http://i.imgur.com/zarwcBxl.jpg
Not near as ugly as people remember!

Channel 6 Happy Hour News Crew!
 

Here's the rest of the Channel Six gang to go with that Irma!
http://i.imgur.com/UnkBN40l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xT4e360l.jpg
April is a little ticked at Burne for assigning her to those boring "human interest stories."

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

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

These rock
 

These rock

Some character sketches:
http://i.imgur.com/jFfZPQel.jpg
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.

http://i.imgur.com/8SPIRYZl.jpg
TMNT appendages

http://i.imgur.com/cRrfxEFl.jpg
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.

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.

http://i.imgur.com/Rm4OfC6l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/39soqOtl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eafpvFWl.jpg

Big Robot fight to come later!

The Reporter and the Robot Part II
 

The Super Foot Soldier design was one of my favorite looking characters from the Archie comics. How great would it be to see him rumble with Rex-1!

http://i.imgur.com/Cp6XswXl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tsX6YtZl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SDZvYtFl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vegv5ZCl.jpg
I hadn't figured out all the motivation of this particular scene, other than that I wanted a giant robot fight with April looking on. The best I could figure was that Shredder sent up the Super Foot Soldier to either steal or sabatogue the Rex-1 unit.

That's all I have for this particular sequence of the story. I moved on to some other events without wrapping up this battle. The evil Rex clones show up later in my "comic" so perhaps I would have created a plot line involving the Super Foot capturing Rex and taking him back down to the Technodrome so Shredder could copy his programming. April would have stowed away on the Drill module in an attempt to help Rex and expose Shredder's plans.

The Reporter and the Robot Part ?
 

Continuing my reinterpretations of the classic OT episodes, I had planned on incorporating some elements from "The Catwoman from Channel 6" into my existing story involving April and Rex. Sometime after Rex's fight with the Super Foot Soldier, Rex would accompany April as she tried to track down Shredder's plans.

This scene borrows heavily from the classic scene where April gets zapped by Shredder's matter transporter. In my version, the evil Rex clones created by Shredder ambush Rex and April in the transporter room, resulting in a ricochet blast hitting the control panel and kicking off a chain reaction which results in April getting harmed by a serious explosion. Fortunately, Rex-1 defeats the clones and carries her to safety... at least until the effects of the matter transporter kick in later on.:twink:
http://i.imgur.com/4JzwNcxl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Olmw7Fyl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Yce2zSGl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dY72qSBl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fUWeSeml.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tSCgzdwl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/r655WKPl.jpg

mabye you should make a porno scene next. my penis is feeling lonely.:lol:

no but seriously, i love those drawing. keep up the good work.

Uh... yeah... sorry, that's not what I was/am/or ever will be going for.:roll:

This one is clean and is an attempt to stay true to the look and spirit of the OT while taking some liberties with the plots.:tangel:

But thanks for the positive feedback. :)I have a few more pages to scan in but it may be a while before I work on new pages.

Archie misc.
 

Some group sketches I did of the Archie style:
http://i.imgur.com/9wW4820l.jpg
The coloring on April's face didn't work out like I had hoped here... old colored pencils... not recommended.

http://i.imgur.com/0oMRPzAl.jpg
"The Uncanny Trio" from Archie TMNT Adventures #27.

Sick work on Raphael in that one. Looks like an edgier version of Mitchroney's stuff.

Wyrm is also drawn to a T. Good details.

You guessed it. Yup, Mitchroney it is!
However, I took the pose directly from Mitchroney's own art. I believe it was a pin-up at the back of one of the Digests books.

Primitive Dribble....
 

I'm not proud of this one. I started drawing the turtles again for the first time in years when the 2k3 show came out and I started collected Mirage comics.

It was part of a story I started years ago about a Shredder War between Shredder and Karai (based more on the Mirage/Konami Tournament Fighters version than the 2k3 show):
http://i.imgur.com/AesKOmml.jpg

I haven't even scanned the rest of this little scene and don't know if I even want to... Ugh this is really hard for me to look at now.:tdead:

This one isn't quite so bad, but it looks flat. Raph is supposed to be walking forward although the flatness of the picture kills much of that effect.
http://i.imgur.com/Ut9BWhgl.jpg
An early attempt to render the Mitchroney style.

A bit more old toon/Archie inspired sketches:
http://i.imgur.com/qbNonjHl.jpg
Some turtle profiles, April in a gi, Cherubae from the Archie Digests #3 cover (hate that my Turtle heads look kinda lumpy here.

Loving your artwork! :)

It's Splinter, NOT "Spinter!"
 

Thanks, Buffy. Coming from you, that's a good compliment.

Here's a Mutatin' Splinter Mutation chart that I haven't finished.
http://i.imgur.com/YuHk6Udl.jpg
I did this without the reference chart from the toy, but I kinda like how it has turned out so far.

EDIT: HOLY COW, I just noticed I misspelled "Splinter." DOH!

Vanguard!
 

I picked up the first issue of Vanguard this weekend for a buck.

In honor of that accomplishment, here's my take on Vanguard and his girlfriend, Roxanne Wells as they appeared in Image's TMNT Volume 3:
http://i.imgur.com/X38GB68l.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...smus/4086f.jpg

I was watching "Leonardo, Renaissance Turtle" the other day and really enjoyed the Leonardo/April team-up element which is also seen in "Leonardo Vs. Tempestra" and "The Unidentified Flying Leonardo." Here's a quick sketch of both of them side by side. I admit Leo is pretty generic-looking in this pic and lacking his swords. I think this is a pretty boring pose and would like to try something more action oriented in the future:
http://i.imgur.com/fWzU9Xhl.jpg

Works in Progress
 

Some more WIP attempts to capture the Mitchroney style (which slight modifications), which can be difficult for his in-your-face action shots:

Featuring the "Uncanny Trio" from TMNT Adventures #27:
http://i.imgur.com/8RVmoWbl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Gh0NMLHl.jpg

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

Thanks, aden! But I don't think I've done Slash. Which one are you referring to?

daaah i meant to type splinter, late nite typo i guess.
i really like the rex 1 nd ot stuff!

Catwoman April
 

From screenpics from "The Catwoman from Channel Six":
http://i.imgur.com/i4xGFxGl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZDdAirkl.jpg

For comparison's sake:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3348/...612fb56a_o.jpg

Always loved that character design. Sometimes it fluctuates throughout the episode though, especially the nose design. I'd be great to see the original model sheets!