Animated .GIF TMNT vs Zombies: Raphael and Leonardo

In case you haven't had the chance to see my personal project: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs Zombies", just click on the links to see to an animated .GIF showing how I created Raphael and Leonardo.

Links:
Raphael .GIF Animation     

Leonardo .GIF Animation
 

Benthos the Water Bearer

Here's another illustration I did for Mystic Warlords of Ka'a [link]. As always I wish I would have had more time than just a day on these. There's so much more I wish I could have done but that's the nature of the game. I figure I'll show my work regardless of whether I like it or not...not every piece is always gold lol

As always I am available for commissions so if you are interested in commissions please private message me and we can discuss rates. Thanks!

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TMNT Page 1 Process

So if you're interested I put together a quick little piece showcasing my process for creating Page 1 of TMNT vs Zombies.

After the initial thumbnail stage (which is not shown) I went into Photoshop to do my rough layout. I found it to be really helpful because I could use the line tool to set up my perspective grid, something that is oh so tedious and ever boring done tradtionally.

I then used a light box with my rough layout to complete the finished pencils.

The next step involved scanning my finished pencils into Photoshop at 360 pixels/inch. From there I separated the line art and then began painting on a layer beneath the line art as well as above it. This helps to give a unique painterly colored look to it and a fun hybrid of traditional and digital art.

Finally I used Photoshop's shape tools to create the boxes and lettered them accordingly.

Hope you enjoyed looking at the process :)

TMNT Page 1 Colored and Text

As promised, I'm posting my final page that I created for TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...As if you didn't know) vs Zombies.

Here's the lettered version, hope you enjoy

If you're curious, it took me a total of about 30 hours to complete, from thumbnails, rough layout, pencils, digital paint, and lettering.

All work besides traditional pencils was completed in Photoshop CS4.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are Copyrighted to Mirage Studios and their respective owners.

TMNT Page 1 Colored

As promised, I'm posting my final page that I created for TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...As if you didn't know) vs Zombies.

This was a project for my storyboarding class, specifically our graphic novel project. Sadly I did not get to complete more than one page. However, since I wrote, illustrated, digitally painted, and lettered the story I think I'll be able to get away with the one page ;)

I was going for the feel that Christian Lichtner had in Ultimates Volume 3 when he colored Joe Madureira's work with a little bit of a blend of Danimation's work in Iron and the Maiden. While they inspired me I think I was able to bring my own feel to this project and I must admit I had a blast! Though I definitely admire all you people out there that do comics entirely by yourself! Man, it's a lotta work!

In the end I'd say this was crazy fun and if I could control a comic from the beginning to end like this, man it would be fun and rewarding! I gotta say too, just adding color totally takes some basic line work and brings it to the next level!

If you're curious, it took me a total of about 30 hours to complete, from thumbnails, rough layout, pencils, digital paint, and lettering.

All work besides traditional pencils was completed in Photoshop CS4.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are Copyrighted to Mirage Studios and their respective owners.

A Taste of Things to Come II

So what's been holding me up from finishing my first "A Taste of Things to Come"? Well, since the quarters coming to a close I've been swamped with Homework, especially since I'm learning Maya. Also Thanksgiving didn't help out much either since I visited family and didn't have a chance to get any work done, since I was without a computer . Mainly though it's been this piece for my story boarding class.

I've already posted the pencils and I'm almost finished with the colors. It's kind of my attempt at reproducing what Christian Lichtner did in Ultimates volume 3 and what Danimation did in Aspen's Iron and the Maiden.

Anyways, between homework for other classes, penciling this project, and painting it, I'm sadly only going to be able to one page for class. However, my teacher said I could go as detailed as I want So I figure between layouts, penciling, painting, and adding letters this one page will have taken me a total of 28-30 hours. So yeah, I don't think anyone else took that long so I should be able to get a good grade

I'll post the final tomorrow in all it's glory! Until then, I hope you enjoy this small little taste!