This is a recreation of one of the shots from the original 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Intro. Hand drawn by me using wacom tablet and photoshop. digitally drawn and painted.
When watching Rise, you can tell that these turtles are, different, than the other iterations. From their inception these boys were created purposefully as opposed to accidentally.
Likewise, the turtles are different from every other mutant created in the show. The other mutants were made by chance: a random human with whatever animal or living creature (or plant) that human just so happened to interact with last. As a result, the possibilities are endless, but non-specific.
Yet, the turtles were created with a purpose: not just to be mutants, but to be weapons of mass destruction designed to carry out Draxum’s master plan.
All he had to do was to train them: to train their bodies (and minds) to be the super soldiers he had destined them to be.
But there was a hitch.
With no lab, and with no turtles, his plan had ended in failure...
That is until some troublesome turtle teens stumbled into his rebuilt lab thirteen years later.
And just like that, his plan was back on.
But time and time again, the turtles chose to refuse him. So to Baron, what good are weapons he cannot use.
Someone else had tarnished his weapons by teaching them to think for themselves and by allowing them to be themselves...
So if the turtles didn't become the weapons that they were meant to be, then what did the turtles become? Tomato-I mean, Hamatos.
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making a challenge for myself where i find vintage items and design the rise boys based on them. i guess ill call these vintage series? this is just for fun and a coloring warmup. ill do the twins next!
Finished the first series I had for @tmnt-event-blog 's winter bingo, so I decided to do a more rendered piece.
New Card, and even! New turtles!?
I figured an episode where they build a fireplace (in a place there. Really shouldn't be one) so Santa will visit them is very much in line with the kinda shenanigans I remember from watching 80s cartoons as a kid.
i've previously gone insane over NFC stuff and 2D barcodes (amiibo tech and QR code tech, basically) so now i have a plethora of leftover knowledge and also a few nfc tags i never got around to giving a purpose.