tmnt Young Altered Karate-like Reptiles (TMNT)

[R2ED]

I did this for my friend's xmas gift this year.  He's a big 80's kid, too.

 

 

 

Battle report!

 

The challenge here was trying to make them all individual more than just their head bands.  I wanted to differ their greens a little between them. I also wanted them to look sewer-ridden and dirty, but still hold contrast.  Came out pretty nice.  

 

Highs:

*Donatello was easily my favorite that came out of this batch.  His purple was a great mix and stood out. 

*Leo had a fun blue that was brighter than expected and gave me the idea to put their respective colors in more areas on them. 

*eyes were simple and effective. 

*use of washes and lining came out good.

* muscles all have strong definition (no pun)

 

 

Lows:

*bandages look grungy as intended, but did get a little too bright in the edges. 

*absolute fail in trying to base with green on airbrush.  I may need to resign myself to simply saying i suck with an airbrush. 

*shell colors needed a little more, but i couldn't figure out what's going wrong. 

*i wanted to push the greens. But needed more something to push the values.  Yellow? White?  What do you raise green with?

 

 

 

 

 

[Glitterwolf]

Cowabunga!

 

Good job!

[Othikent]

Love them!

[R2ED]

@Othikentrighteous, dude! 

[Darcstaar]

I use clear yellow or lemon yellow mixed in to the highlight for a little extra punch.

 

These are great.  I loved TMNT growing up.

[R2ED]

@Darcstaari have lemon yellow, so I'm going to give that a try.  

 

Agree on the tmnt. I thought about doing them all in red like the classic 80s, but thought I'd better go with punchy for this gift. 

[Ganryu Kojiro]

2 hours ago, Darcstaar said:

I use clear yellow or lemon yellow mixed in to the highlight for a little extra punch.

 

These are great.  I loved TMNT growing up.

I agree. I've had the best luck adding in yellows to highlight my greens.

[Chaoswolf]

Very cool Christmas gift!