A little treat from the Turtle Documentary guys

When I got up this morning and checked my email, I found one containing the following link:

http://blip.tv/fauxpop-tv/chasing-turtles-ep12-sneak-peeks-peter-laird-6432339

It leads to a short clip which may or may not make its way into the TMNT documentary. Isaac and his crew taped it in my office at Mirage Studios in Northampton, and it's basically me talking about Graphix Duo-Shade (the special paper Kevin Eastman and I used when we drew the first bunch of issues of the original TMNT comic books), and -- in penciling, inking and then toning a drawing of Donatello -- giving a demonstration of how it works. That was a fun afternoon, hanging out with a nice group of people.

If you have ever wondered how the Duo-Shade paper makes its magic, you might want to check this out. -- PL

Blast from the Past #282: Early Duo-Shade drawing

I think this may have been my second attempt to employ the Graphix Duo-Shade art board -- the stuff Kevin and I used for many of the early TMNT books -- to create an illustration back in the early 1980's. I'm pretty sure it was done for Hampshire Life.



I'm showing this one in its "raw" form, just at it looked in the photograph I took of the original, so that the odd contours of the piece of Duo-Shade are clearly visible. I do this to reiterate how -- because this stuff was so expensive -- I would try to maximise the use of every single square inch of a sheet of it. -- PL

Blast from the Past #253: My first Duo-Shade drawing (I think)

I'm pretty sure this was the first illustration I ever did using Graphix Duo-Shade board, the paper on which Kevin and I would later draw most of the early TMNT comics. The tones -- especially the light ones -- on this particular drawing have faded somewhat, as they sadly tend to do on Duo-Shade originals. I think it has something to do with the nature of the chemicals which combine to make the tones.



I think this was probably done in the late 1970's, and quite possibly for "Hampshire Life". -- PL