I ♥ TMNT

As made evident in the last few posts, I went off on my ♥ for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and specifically the disembodied brain, Krang, the villain from Dimension X.

In the newer cartoon, Krang has a weaker appearance
(and looks a lot like my recent herd of MACRODONS drawing)

But, let's not forget ♥ April O'Neil ♥ -who was probably pretty high up on the list in my 8 year-old brain, as a reason to watch TMNT (as if martial arts, weapon wielding, humanoid, wise-cracking turtles in battle with weird aliens and mutated monsters wasn't reason enough)

so... Halloween...? Yeah, you guessed it:

071 - DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

after completing this MACRODON, I envisioned him, more squat, shorter, and stockier, so I Photoshopped it some:



This is what I have been up to the past few days: paper-mâché He-Man Hair,
in stiff-looking, plastic-like, bowl-cut, page-boy fashion!



After all the fun with the PUMA shoes, I could not help myself,
this MACRODON's Halloween costume: HE-MAN!



and my wife's costume this year was Amelia Earhart, with some great vintage Wilson welding goggles, but in this case, visually perfect for an aviator costume, as fashionably sported by this Macrodon:



Okay, that was another, fun, ridiculous post.
I always assumed Macrodons had eyes, and well, really any other body part not previously represented in these illustrations, but putting goggles on it's "head", over it's "eyes" (and whose to say it's eyes are on it's "head"), a sword in it's "hand" (obviously gripped with fingers), etc., was a little disconcerting at the time... I prefer the vague anatomical visual description I have previously given them, so for now, I don't think we'll be seeing any paper-doll style dressing of Macrodons anymore...

070 - TRANSFORMATION

In this most recent phase of transformation the subject has developed 2 more additional appendages, and the "upper body" has been radically distorted, now leaving behind most if not all of its previous humanoid characteristics.

See illustration 013 for another MACRODON with significant cephalopod-like characteristics -potentially the next phase in the transformation of this MACRODON.

069 - TRANSFORMATION

TRANSFORMATION II: The subject Macrodon has developed 2 additional appendages. The appendages do not appear as rigid as in the earlier state. The subject is no longer clearly identifiable as humanoid, but is now in a state of flux, transitioning to a cephalopod-like appearance.

068 - TRANSFORMATION

Due to Halloween costume preparations I fell off the drawing wagon the past few days, so again, here are 3 drawings, for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

This drawing retains most of the previous linework from the underdrawing, with only some definition around the figure, and editing out unwanted marks.

I conceptualized these 3 drawings as the transformation of this particular Macrodon. Here appearing somewhat humanoid.