Cow-a-bunga, Righteous, and Pizza

So for some reason I had flashbacks today to a happier time, a better time, a simpler time. When all one cared about was highlighter colored clothing, pizza, and the thrill of kicking some good old Foot Clan butt. I was born a short year after these Turtle dudes were, and I was in that prime moment of my life when they surged onto the scene riding skateboards and wielding the ninja's tools of destruction. My parents hunted down the last 6 action figures left in the state of Utah one year, for my older brother and I, for Christmas. We had the pizza launcher tanks, all the bad guys, and we had dreams my friends, dreams.

SO today 2 triggers launched me on memory lane.

The first came from Joe Olson's hyper stylized and gracefully executed Donatello posted here. http://joeolson.blogspot.com/

Then right after in the completely opposite style the legendary Dave Rapoza put this Leonardo up on CG hub. http://cghub.com/images/view/138397/

So I felt a need to draw a Raphael. It was done in a total of 3 ish hours on breaks throughout the day, and its the first ninja turtle I have drawn since 1996.

Enjoy.

drawings in church

I have been swamped with work lately. Half of which I cant post or even talk about. But I did get permission the other day to start posting the comic that I am working on so look for that soon. Until then here are some touched up sketches from church the other day. This lady had some things to say that cast women in a poor light. My sweet fiancée sitting next to me was shaking her head and heating up over some of her thoughts with good cause.

a few character wips

3D model WIP

I have been working on this guy for 2 days. I think after having rebuilt the facial topology several times I have fount the theory i prefer the best. I have also become very familiar with several ways of redirecting my edge loops to accommodated fusing different topological areas of varying detail. Look for a dresses guy soon.

Chow

village wip

Working on this village. It was part of the goblin animation, but I didn't use much of it. I am trying to map it all now. I still need to replace my super temp windows and get my lighting the way I want it.

Isles D' Honig "we want you" poster wip

I might give this sea elf a more gruff look and add some facial hair and scars and tattoos. I am not sure yet. plus an Iris and so forth of course. Thoughts?

the captured maiden

tree WIP

The giants chest

jack and the giant

concepts for jack and the beanstalk