#donatello

They’re done!! They’re finally done!! I was so excited to draw these and I’m so incredibly happy how they turned out! 

I tried some new techniques with lighting and shading and I’m really satisfied with the end result. I used gradients of their colour schemes as a colour correction layer over the base shading and I feel like it gives the shading more depth without being too much. 

Just love drawing these guys! 

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[ORIGINAL] [UPDATE 1] [UPDATE 2]

Spent my afternoon refining sketches and creating a sort of cheat sheet for colors. Last time I shut down my Macbook and closed Photoshop properly, all of my recent color swatches got deleted… first time that ever happened and I can’t get them back… And those swatches all happened to be for the Turtles, April and Casey.

Anyways… An art update!!! So excited to line, color and shade everything!

Also… am I the only one who kind of ships April and Cassandra?

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I’m gonna be upset if these *ancient* sketches get more notes than my recent finished artworks, so here goes.

Since I was going down memory lane with my earlier post, I searched my old art folder for my TMNT drawings and actually even found one from as early as 2012! I had turned 16 that year. Lord… I turn 25 this year… 9 years… 

Around the time I drew Raph was when I recorded the 2008 movie with my camera from my computer screen and edited a video to each of the turtles to a Nickelback song. I was obsessed with Raphael back then. Watching it then was also the first time in English, because in the time between 2008 and 2012 my English improved enough to understand movies. Since English isn’t my first language and in Germany all movies come out German dubbed.

Absolutely loved Raph and Leo’s fight, the voice acting in that scene… so goooood. Love Nolan North and James Arnold Taylor = perfection! Also, Chris Evans as Casey?! Yess please!

I guess I really skipped the 2012 show… I saw some scenes of it and did like the animation and the voice acting, but couldn’t find where to watch it in English via German channels, only in German, and so gave up… so I never got into it.

And then came 2014… and oh boy… was I into it. Watching it for the first time I was super into Donnie, but then that shifted to Leo who used to be my childhood crush from the few episodes of the 2003 series I managed to watch as a kid at my grandma’s place.

The first drawing with Donnie… gosh, the girl… anatomy? yeah, we don’t know her.

[ORIGINAL] [UPDATE 1]

Completely redrew Mikey and April because I wasn’t too happy with their poses. They were the only ones who were folded in on themselves and not standing up like the others, and that kind of bugged me. 
I also might still change the leg positioning of Raph, because I’m still not a 100% happy with it, but getting somewhere.

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Finally finished this beast! I know I had asked for your opinion on shading and some had suggested I should add some, but I just wanted to get this done so I can start with the next project and not slip back into procrastination. 

I lined and coloured Mikey yesterday while streaming to a friend on Discord and he and I both kept gasping how cute Mikey is. And to be honest, out of the four he has turned out my favourite. This time at least.

UPDATE: 

Alt Version with drop shadow: Here

Alt version of the turtles from this post! 

[ORIGINAL]

Thanks so much for all your notifications on the previous post of these sketches. It really brightens my day, so thank you tons.

I had kind of a low energy day today, so instead of continuing the first artwork of the turtles brothers or starting to line these ones, I procrastinated and only managed to clean these up a bit in Photoshop and do some changes that were necessary to improve the overall look.

Lots of adjustments still required, but I’m so happy how each and every one of these sketches turned out! 

I wanted to draw everyone’s finale looks, because I absolutely love the black/T!color combination. April and Casey joined the party because Leo’s pose was giving me such a headache I had to draw something else before getting back to him. 

I’m especially happy with the latter four where I ran out of my sketch pencil and picked up coloured pencils instead to sketch. I wish I had done the same with Raph and Mikey from the beginning, but whatever.. not gonna redo something I’m happy with. 

I will still finish the other artwork I’ve been sharing, but I gotta say, I like these ones a lot better already. Comes to show what a week of daily sketching can help improve.

Turts in sweaters and vests

(Couldn’t decide which is a better background color so have both)

Some Donnie and Leo doodles

Baby turtle icons for you and your turtle loving friends

Halloween!

Donatello(1386–1466)

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Donato di Niccolo Bardi, called Donatello was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence Italy. Donatello took a fundamental step toward depicting motion in the human figure by recognizing the principle of weight shift or contrapposto. Greek sculptors in the 5th century were the first to grasp the concept. Donatello reintroduced this concept into Renaissance statuary.  Donatello’s Saint Mark (first image) is the first Renaissance statue whose voluminous robe does not conceal but accentuates the movement of arms, legs, shoulders, and hips. The Bronze David is Donatello’s most famous work. At the time of its creation, it was the first known free-standing nude statue produced since ancient times. The clergy regarded nude statues as both indecent and idolatrous, and nudity in general appeared only rarely in art—and then only in biblical or moralizing contexts, such as the story of Adam and Eve or depictions of sinners in Hell . (x)(x)