Pretty awesome Valentine's gift
 

So, this is what my girl decided to make me instead of a silly card/chocolates. :D She actually took the time to research about Eastman/Laird and found out what kind of paper they drew on, what kind of supplies they used and tried to get everything as close as possible. She chose the cover of the first graphic novel. She is working on two different versions.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps2af8bf7f.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps64f80b89.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps355d792b.jpg
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This belongs in the Fan Works section. Note the difference between first and First graphic novel, this was in fact based off of the very first (as in number one) TPB ever issued. The brick wall is a bit off as it loks like Raph is standing on a broken mattress. You could have added the city buildings above Mikey. Decent try, but I've seen better, but still a cute gift.

aww that's sweet~ :anime: I like it!

Well, my apologies for posting in the wrong section, I'm sure a moderator can have it moved. As I said, neither are done, and I never made a claim that it was better than any other TMNT art. I thought it was pretty good for someone's first try at drawing the TMNT. Just thought it was a nice/thoughtful gift.

art is always a thoughtful gift :D

man, seriously, I don't know whats wrong with some people here....why the **** are you pissing the man off like that?!?!he shares some very thoughtful and loving gift with us and you talk about 'its not the best turtles art Ive seen' and 'the brick wall is off'...I didn't have anything to do with this comment and yet I feel like apologizing to you, my friend...this is so sad that some people take notice of things apparently with their REAR end without even noticing it sometimes...and it happens so often on this turtles forum..man...

about your gift:wow!i can only be happy for ya.incredible how much work your girl put into that with all the research and the time it must have taken her to draw this..

Haha, it's all good. People love to criticize. I don't expect everyone to like it, and like I said, I never claimed it was any better than anything else. I like it, and I think they are good for a first and second try. I know I couldn't do any better. Any maybe one day if she keeps practicing drawing turtles for me it will be of acceptable quality! :P

Also, I hope you were claiming that the "brick wall" was in the copy that my girl drew, because Raph does indeed look to be standing on a broken mattress in the actual artwork.

first, First graphic novel cover

Pretty good! Lovely valentines gift.

Tough critics here... Nice gift...

What a sweet gift! That's such a nice thing to get and I'm sure it'll always be treasured. She's done a great job for a first go :tgrin:

That is very sweet.

I personally like the original, minimal version better than the one with added elements, but that's just personal preference. I like the simplicity of it.

Awesome! Very thoughtful :)

If you don't have anything nice to say, and all that. Yeesh!

That's a cute gift, I also prefer the 'minimalist' version!