My First Art Challenge! (DTWYOD)
Hello! :) Welcome to the first art challenge/contest/competition, I don't know what to call this LOL. XD
So I'm starting this and the deadline will either be May 31st or June 1st depending on the day this is posted if this is posted on May 1st then May 31st if this is posted on May 2nd then June 1st, or May 3rd to June 2nd. :) After the deadline I will pick a certain amount of submissions, maybe 10, maybe 12, maybe 26, I don't know I'm still deciding, and similar to those Showdown or competition blogs I will have people vote on which one is the best until there's only two left, and whoever wins out of the final two will get bragging rights I guess XD. This is just meant for fun so don't expect nothing out of this. XD.
Now similar to @sad-leon's 2K DTIYS :D (Deadline: May 15th, the challenge is redraw this but with your own original designs so it's more like do this with your own designs (DTWYOD). And the picture they're going to be redrawing is the classic pose on the front cover of the very first comic from 1984, that pose that's been recreated several times throughout TMNT because it's so iconic. The challenge is to create your own original TMNT designs based on the normal TMNT mythology, and draw them doing that pose.
I got inspired to do this from @battiegutz, when he redrew a official promo from 2012 with his designs as seen here.
Now with that being said here are suggestions, not requirements because that would be restricting creativity, essentially these are rules but if you don't follow them don't worry you're still going to be included, they are optional rules.
For the full details please see my writers guide for normal TMNT.
Their skin must be Green with no species markings.
They can have three fingers or four fingers or two toes three toes or four toes, not five & five.
They must be the same species as each other.
They must have their traditional weapons, two Ninjaken (two Katanas), one Bo, two Sai that have been sharpened, and one or two pairs of nunchucks.
They must have the same gear as each other
Their front shells must have one line down the middle, and two side lines with one of them usually being covered by the belt.
Now that those "rules" are out of the way, here's some stuff you can do, but it's up to you, these are basically suggestions/recommendations & options. You can either give them all Red masks, or all Dark Red masks, or all Black masks, or their traditional colors of Blue Purple Red and Orange. You can make them any species of Turtle. You can either use gear that is already existed before like their traditional gear, the gear they had in 87, the gear they had in 2012, any of the gear they've had in IDW, the gear they have in Mutant Mayhem, or if you can come up with something new go for it (more points if you come up with something new). Preferably no clothing. Preferably don't give Raph or Mikey a shoulder strap because it doesn't make sense for them to have it. You can either have the tie belt (mirage early on, 87, 2k3, 2007), or the strap belt (mirage later on, 1990, next mutation, 2012, Rise), or even normal belt like they do in Mutant Mayhem (or ERB's TMNT vs Artists video). Either the classic head Style (used in most TMNT) or the Bean Head style (first used in some guest issues in Mirage, but most notable uses are 2012, sometimes used in IDW, Rise, and Batman vs TMNT film), or the 2003 head Style, or the new Mutant Mayhem head Style. You can either have them all be the same shade of Green, or slightly different shades of Green, or drastically different shades of Green, and you can even have at least one of them be Brownish Green. Their front shells can be Yellow, Tan, Orangeish, Brownish, or any color that has ever been used for their front shells in any TMNT iteration, and they can all have the same front shell color or they can all be different. Back shells can be either Green or Brown, preferably Brown. They can either have nails, claws, or nothing. Tails are optional. They can be the same Turtle drawn four times, the copy paste/palette swap Style with the only way to tell them apart either being their weapons, mask colors, or skin tone, or maybe eye color, or front shell color, or some of the above or all of the above. Or you could do what's been done since 2012 and draw four unique Turtles. Or you could go halfway and have two Turtles and copy each one once, like Raph & Leo look the same, and Mike & Don look the same. You can have the gear match their masks, or you can just have them with Brown or Black gear, and they can either all be the same shade of Brown or different shades of Brown.
Now those were just "rules" and recommendations and suggestions are completely optional, and if you don't follow any of those "rules" like make their gear not match each other or you give them clothes or Raphael a shoulder strap or anything like that you will still be counted, I won't ignore your submission just because you didn't follow the "rules". These rules, suggestions, recommendations, and options are more like optional guidelines, not strict rules. Now in order to find the submissions you must have the tag #DTWYOD so I will be able to find it. :)
Now with that being said have fun and hopefully creating an original design will give you the drive and the inspiration to create your own iteration based around your designs. :) Have a Turtlely awesome day! :D TURTLE POWER!!!! :D
