Two of my favorite art pieces

[cowabunga14]

The first piece is from when I started doin' TMNT artwork earlier this year. One of my very first ones was an April Fools comic...believe it or not. The first one is a sketch of a Foot Ninja. I got the idea for him from an old TMNT target card game that has a boxin' glove gun and you hafta knock over the targets with it. I changed his arms, costume, and his weapons around a little bit. I have the three targets (Shredder, Krang, and Foot Ninja) but the gun is messed up. I dunno why I drew that chained weapon (anyone know the name of it?) I got it from the Artobiography and I drew it cuz I thought it looked pretty rad. This is one of my first black and white pieces.

Next up are the Turtles weapons. I colored 'em with colored pencils and I got the inspiration from...you guessed it...the Artobiography. I think the weapons look pretty accurate but the colors look different from the new toon. I'll hafta expand my mediums for colorin' things. I have the links for the weapons pages:   http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/TMNTguy/weaponspage1.jpg and [url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/TMNTguy/weaponspage2.jpg[url]

[Andrew Modeen]

Nice sketches, good attention to shadow.

Did you like the Artobiography? I haven't picked it up yet. Do you think it's worth the buy?

[cowabunga14]

Thanks for the comment. I really liked the Artobiography so much that I read it twice. I got it with some of my birthday money. I'd say it's really worth the buy. The art is great and I really liked how Eastman told about the comics he worked on for the Turtles and he really gets it depth with things. The book is kinda pricey (almost forty dollars to be exact) but if you liked what Eastman brought to the comics I highly recommend it.

[GreenWillow]

I dunno why I drew that chained weapon (anyone know the name of it?) I got it from the Artobiography and I drew it cuz I thought it looked pretty rad. This is one of my first black and white pieces.

     ~Nice action! I believe the weapon is called manriki gusari...or something like that.


                   ~GW

[cowabunga14]

You're right about that, GW. I ran a Google Image search on that weapon. I guess there's more than one version of it though. The first version I came across had nunchaku handles and a long chain in the middle of 'em. This is the version of the weapon that the ninja character uses in Tales of the TMNT #5 volume two. The one I got from the Artobiography had a handle with a blade on it. I found a pic similar to that version from the search. I velieve the Dark Assassin figure has a manriki weapon. Was the manriki gusari inspired by the nunchaku or vice versa?

[GreenWillow]

~Hard do say. As I understand it, the nunchaku were "created" as weapons in a period in feudal Japan when weapons possession by anyone but the samurai was outlawed.  'Chucks, I believe, were originally a type of grain flail; a farming tool secretly adapted for use as a weapon. Same with the sai. The manrirki gusari certainly looks like a farming scythe with a chain attached, doesn't it?


                        ~GW

[Mindy]

Nice shading and overall artwork! Oh, you might want to repair the HTML coding on the third image (remove the [url] from the end of the tag). I find sais incredibly difficult to draw, for some reason  

[cowabunga14]

I fixed the link for page two so it should work for y'all. All you hafta do is copy and paste it.