Monday, May 23, 2011

Turtle Power!


Well, here it is! My piece for the Shell Shock TMNT tribute show next week. You'd better believe this was a lot of work! Please click on it for a larger view.

Of course I had to pay homage to the 1989 cartoon, as that was the version I and millions of others were obsessed with in our youth. I tried to include as many key characters and iconic visuals as I could, and threw in some stuff that I remember particularly fondly like the arcade game. (Speaking of which, the title of the piece is "Big Apple, 3 a.m." Some will get it!)

What can you say about the Ninja Turtles that does any justice to how much they took over our lives? It was THE show and had THE toys, everything else was secondary. I really wanted to dig out some of my old turtle drawings from when I was a kid to post along side this, just as a cool reminder of how far I've come with my drawing and yet how little my choice of subject matter has changed. I haven't had a chance to search them out though because they're rumored to be in a remote corner of my parent's attic. However, on my way home from picking up this print I came across a turtle in the middle of my street, so I stopped the car and moved him to save him from becoming road pizza. I suppose that's fitting enough.

8 comments:

GOGOPEDRO said...

AWWWWW YEAH!!

PLANET-PULP said...

Beautiful color pallet!

Steve Dressler said...

Goddamn! Unbelievable.

Juan Bauty said...

mind-blowed

~ tOkKa said...

-->> Way to go, Glen !! !!

craigp said...

i wish you drew more characters in there. i'm kidding...seriously, this is beautiful (maybe the first time something TMNT related has been called beautiful?)

pw! said...

totally tubular dude

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