I've been a Turtles fan since the original Eastman and Laird days. To this day I remember Being at the Quo Vadis Theater watching the movie, and feeling my first pangs of nerd-rage as the incognizant masses raised on the cartoon or the Archie's comic said things like, "That's wrong, Splinter was Hamato Yoshi, not his pet rat..." Still makes me a little twitchy.
That said, I've been drawing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since the mid 80's. This is my first one in probably 15 years though. It was mostly an excuse to use some new marker colors I picked up at the art store that day, but the 11-year-old in me was also really anxious to see how cool it would end up.
I realized two things in this venture:
1. I need to get back to figure drawing, my anatomy has gotten weak.
2. I have no idea what the actual anatomy of a mutant turtle is...teenage or otherwise. I was just making stuff up.
kind of hazy but I think I was there at the Quo Vadis
ReplyDeleteI'd say it's a pretty safe bet you were. And chances are you were sharing in the seething.
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