Vegging Out This drawing was started back in late 2003 while I was sitting around in the piano lounge at college doing a sketch in my notebook. I finished coloring it in July of 2010. Don Picasso, Halloween 2005 I got the idea for this picture during my psychology class when we did an exercise where we had to copy a picture by drawing it upside down. The image was of Igor Starvinsky as portrayed in a painting by the world famous Pablo Picasso. I decided to trace the picture onto computer paper and draw in three of the original toon TMNT, with Donatello's cheek sticking behind Igor's face like it was a Halloween mask! One With Nature Having been in the mood to do another comic short, I was planning to draw the TMNT in the distant future looking over some friends' tombstones, when I got the urge to do a light-hearted image of Leonardo enjoying a peaceful day in the wilderness with Master Splinter, who decides to point out something rather funny to his son. This manip started out as an idea for a cross-over image with Bart Simpson and one of the Ninja Turtles, but while looking for some background images I came across this beautiful image of a park bench with the word "RESPECT" in big capital letters. This gave me an idea to do a motivational collage of some of my favorite television characters from when I was a kid! Bart Simpson - property of 20th Century Fox (now owned by Disney) Punky Brewster - property of Columbia Pictures Garfield - property of Jim Davis Chip n' Dale - property of Disney Kermit the Frog - property of Jim Henson Alf - property of NBC Ren & Stimpy - property of Paramount Bugs Bunny - property of Warner Bros. Back in 2012 (4 years before that crazy goober became our president), I was messing around on Google, when I came across a picture of Donald Trump and I got a hilarious idea! Originally, I was planning to put the Trumpster's hair on Raphael's head, but then as I went through my collection of various TMNT images, this picture of Splinter seemed to be a perfect match. This photo was a labor of love. I was originally planning to do a drawing of Fugitoid, but instead I chose to take a photo of my Fugitoid action figure. At first I thought it'd be cool to prop him up against my new laptop, but then I figured it'd be even better to see him with a living thing, so I put my dog Rusty up on my parents' bed with the toy. With a little coaxing and a lot of patience, I got this adorable shot! At the time this picture was taken, Rusty's health was already fading and he was in a lot of pain. We weren't sure how much longer he'd last, but he managed to hang in for quite a long time. On August 20, 2012 he was put to sleep. We don't know exactly how old he was, especially since we adopted him in 2005, but I'm guessing he was atleast 15. At any rate this image is now considered a memorial to my furry little buddy. While playing around on Google, I came across this beautiful picture of an ancient Japanese temple. As you can see I had a little fun with it and put three different iterations of the TMNT in the foreground. This was a fun manip to work on! It started simply with the idea of having a cute girl in a sexy Michelangelo costume replace 4Kids Mikey in a group shot with his brothers. Then I put them in this backdrop of the sewer. A mistake with the ribbons on Fem-Mikey's arm was what lead me to put the image of Master Splinter in the picture frame on the far left, as a sort of manip within a manip! The beautiful lady between Michelangelo and Donatello is Abby Dark-Star, a cosplayer from San Francisco. The Turtles appear as depicted in the video game Out of the Shadows. This was an awesome manip to work on! The screenshot of Donatello is from the shopping mall scene at the beginning Secret of the Ooze, while the image of Barry Allen (as played by Grant Gustin on CW's The Flash) was taken from a generic promotional poster. Sadly I'm not very certain where the background image of the speed force originates from, though I assume it's taken from DC's online gaming community. Even before writer/producer Ciro Nieli came up with the interspecies relationship concept now deemed "Apriltello", I've always thought Miss O' Neil had a special connection with good old Donnie-Boy throughout the different animated shows, and this new iteration of the collage shows that well! Fred Wolf (1987 - 1996) episode: "Pirate Radio" 4Kids (2003 - 2009) episode: "The Shredder Strikes Back" Part One Nickelodeon CGI (2012 - 2017) episode: "Showdown" Part 2 A silly manip/comic that I did using a screenshot from the opening scene of Turtles in Time and an image of pornstar April 'O Neil (yes, there is a woman who goes by that name and does adult film) I decided to have some fun with this screen shot from the 1989 episode "The Big Break In" and show Raphael taking his cool-but-rude shtick to a more adult level in comparison with a certain foul mouthed mercenary from Marvel Comics! I thought I'd take a crack at a popular meme about people who do nothing but complain when their favorite fictional characters get rebooted and altered in ways they disaprove of! A few years back somebody on the Technodrome Forum had a photo-shopped image of Krang with a new android body disguised as the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. I thought that it would be fun to do my own version, using different screen shots from my DVD collection of both shows. I even threw in Bartman and placed both him and Krang-Book-Guy in the dimensional limbo. More fun with manipping screen shots of Raphael. This time I took a scene from the episode where he did stand up on live television and threw in an advertisement for an episode of South Park! Note the long forgotten character Chef in the background as this particular ad was from the very early days of the show. Now just imagine if Viacom had gotten the rights to TMNT about a decade sooner! NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR SUITABLE FOR LITTLE KIDS!!! SURE YOU WANNA SEE 'EM? THEY'RE PRETTY RACY... OKAY... DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YA. JUST MAKE SURE THERE ISN'T ANYBODY BOTHERED BY NUDITY AROUND. |
Slightly inspired by the famous dream sequence in the beginning of the classic 80s movie Risky Business |
Upon discovering some of the late Tanya Roberts's film history pre That 70s Show, I thought it'd be funny to see what she might have looked like as a live action version of Irma in the New Line films from the 90s. Of course, what I have her and the TMNT up to here wouldn't be appropriate for a kids' movie. |
This is a manip of Jagwar and Dreadmon of the Mutanimals from back in the good old days of Archie comics. The girl is Barbara Nedeljakova as seen in the horror film Hostel |