TURTLES: Dawn of the Ninja - Painted Graphic Novel Progress - 50 Pages & counting!!!

**Ray Dillon** · December 11th, 2009, 10:29 PM

I'm illustrating a fan-based graphic novel and doing illustrations and paintings for the film concept. It's a gritty, dark, realistic. An Batman Begins approach to the Turtles; taking them seriously!

You can learn more here: http://www.DawnoftheNinja.com

CHAPTER 1 IS NOW ONLINE **FREE**!!!!

GO TO http://www.DawnOfTheNinja.com/Reader.php

30 pages of painted art by me! Plus, see a few pages of previews for Chapter 2!

More to come! Larger scale paintings, sequential pages, etc.

Thanks for looking!

**Victor S.** · December 12th, 2009, 08:22 AM

great style, turtles never been so seriously depicted

**KonnA** · December 12th, 2009, 10:09 AM

I too would like to see the "Turtles" more seriously depicted...

**A-Red** · December 12th, 2009, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Ray Dillon

It's a gritty, dark, realistic. An Batman Begins approach to the Turtles; taking them seriously!

The original Eastman and Laird comics did a really good job of this (particularly the City at War story arc), if you haven't read them. I agree, though, that they've been very kid-oriented ever since, and I'd love to see them handled in a darker way again. The art is fantastic; I especially like the way you handled Raph's physique--very fitting.

**PenDiablo** · December 12th, 2009, 03:15 PM

hey nice work.. one lil nit-pick though... Raph shouldn'y be so beastly. =D otherwise nice stuff =) Im an old achool TMNT fan

**MrMcPherson** · December 12th, 2009, 03:17 PM

The art is fantastic and I can't help but be excited for this. Finally the turtles are being taken more seriously, which I thought that's how they should have been all this time. I have to see your styles for Mike or Don, nice work!

**DannyT** · December 13th, 2009, 08:29 AM

Wow dude, I really love the sublety of Leonardo. Have been an fan of the turtles all my life! Love to see you take them to a more realistic level. One small crit: in my own opinion Raph is a bit overdone muscular-wise. But thats definite non-professional opion.

**Ray Dillon** · January 4th, 2010, 05:28 PM

Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate you taking the time to post.

Here's Baxter Stockman, the scientist who created the Mousers!

**luvazquez** · January 4th, 2010, 06:51 PM

I really like these interpretations; most especially the way you've individualized the different turtles, rather than making them cookie cutter specimens of the species.

Dunno if it's because I'm so sick of seeing Wolverine everywhere, but I think the image with the sai would be better if they were held by the handles. Just my own personal nitpick.

Good stuff..let's see more!

**Ray Dillon** · January 10th, 2010, 09:09 PM

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. And I totally get what you're saying about the sai. I really want to do poses that haven't been seen before (unlike this one). Make him really feel like a ninja master who prefers the sai, not just a ninja turtle posing with a sai. That's done so much. Didn't succeed here, but I'll get it.

Oh, and they'll be using other weapons besides their traditional ones, too.

**Ray Dillon** · January 11th, 2010, 02:39 AM

Here's SPLINTER!!

**Maelstrom78** · January 13th, 2010, 01:13 PM

oo I aboslutely looove Splinter!! Great job!

**Oritey** · January 13th, 2010, 01:36 PM

Shredder - is cool!

**Aetaveru** · January 13th, 2010, 02:01 PM

These are excellent! Especially love Baxter as the fly again.

**Ray Dillon** · January 15th, 2010, 11:40 AM

Thank you very much for the comments!!! And yes please give me all your opinions. I want to know if I'm ringing true with fans. It's supposed to be different, but still relatable.

Here is a young and younger Oroku Saki (Shredder). We'll see much more of his origins in Dawn of the Ninja.

And as always, check out more at http://www.DawnoftheNinja.com

**Lyle Moore** · January 15th, 2010, 02:11 PM

Wonderful work. I really enjoy the way you did Baxter Stockman.

**Ray Dillon** · January 17th, 2010, 07:28 PM

Thanks, Lyle! I really appreciate it.

Here's a Human form BEBOP & ROCKSTEADY:

http://www.DawnoftheNinja.com

**Lyle Moore** · January 17th, 2010, 07:42 PM

This is cool.

I would love to see you do Miyamoto Usagi and Krang!

**Max Pressman** · January 17th, 2010, 07:49 PM

Turtle Power!!

**Nobie** · January 17th, 2010, 11:17 PM

Looks great. Brings back old memories for sure. Good luck on this!

**j.s. sabastian** · January 17th, 2010, 11:52 PM

finally a remake of the true nature of the ninja.....turtles.
(the original graphic novels where dark...)
i've been really tired of that week a$$ Sh-t that's been put out since the second movie(the first movie rocked the house!)
thank you ray dillon! i can sleep easier tonight knowing that TMNT is in better hands

**MephistonX** · January 18th, 2010, 11:07 AM

TURTLE POWAR = awesome - fully looking forward to more of this

**ROCKNROLLA** · January 18th, 2010, 12:48 PM

These are great! I love BEBOP AND ROCKSTEADY

**Ray Dillon** · April 29th, 2010, 10:36 PM

APRIL O'NEIL RE-IMAGINED:

AND HERE...

IS THE FIRST PAGE OF TURTLES: DAWN OF THE NINJA! Learn more here: http://www.DawnoftheNinja.com

**Ray Dillon** · July 3rd, 2010, 12:08 AM

Page 1 of Chapter 2:

**Christopher Genovese** · July 6th, 2010, 11:18 PM

Some way cool work. I'm eager to see more. Always loved the ninja turtles, keep em alive!

**Ray Dillon** · November 17th, 2010, 12:34 AM

A new page from Chapter 2 of this massive graphic novel!

If you like what you see, please help us spread the world.

http://www.DawnoftheNinja.com
http://www.Twitter.com/DawnfotheNinja
http://www.Facebook.com/pages/Ninja-...8458058?ref=ts

We have the book in the hands of the people we need to to make it official and they like it, but hearing a LOT of fans backing us up would push us over the edge. Thank you for your support!!!

**Ray Dillon** · January 29th, 2012, 12:38 AM

CHAPTER 1 IS NOW ONLINE **FREE**!!!!

GO TO http://www.DawnOfTheNinja.com/Reader.php

30 pages of painted art by me! Plus, see a few pages of previews for Chapter 2!

**Ray Dillon** · January 30th, 2012, 12:18 AM

Whoops!! Just realized all the image links in here were broken. Fixed those and made them attachments instead. Sorry about that. And here are some more pages:

**JFierce** · January 30th, 2012, 02:53 AM

After trying just a few pages of a full color comic I can definitely appreciate this. Especially doing it alone, takes forever.

Fine work.

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