Today marks the last day of TMNT week (and the last day of the year, Happy New Year everyone). For the last day I have made the adoptive father and sensei of all four of the Turtles - Master Splinter.
Splinter is wise, mature, and highly trained in the art of Ninjutsu, he is also a giant rat, it depends on which story line you follow but he was either the mutated/reincarnated martial artist Hamato Yoshi, OR he was the pet rat of Hamato Yoshi. Splinter idolises the four turtles and occasionally comes to their rescue in times of crisis.
My version of Splinter was quite complicated to make, I'm not even sure if I remember how I made the body, the only parts of Splinter which are photoshopped are the pupils of the eyes and the background.
Have a great new year everyone
Rob
Hello everyone and may I wish you a very Happy National Bacon Day, I do hope you all have a wonderful day full of bacon galore. Today I am featuring the last of the 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael (Raph).
Raph is named after the Italian Renaissance artist Raffael and is the most aggressive of the four turtles, he generally wields his twin Sai as his primary weapon and is often very angry and sometimes rebellious.
The background of this weeks pictures has all been the same background but I have been able to change the colours of each background to make them all look slightly different, the eyes and mouth were photoshopped on and then I added some detail to his weapons.
Tomorrow I move away from turtles and we get to see another character. See you tomorrow.
Rob
Meet Donatello (Donnie), the tallest and most intelligent of all the turtles with a natural aptitude for science and technology. Donnie's primary signature weapon is his effective bō staff but he generally relies on his gadgetry rather than his combat skills. Donnie is names after the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello.
See you tomorrow for the final of the 4 turtles
Rob
So this weeks theme of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was suggested by my cousin Charlie, at first I had dismissed the idea as they are all very similar however once I had thought about it I figured I could make them all different enough. Today we have Leonardo, the oldest of the four turtles he is the commander and tactical advisor of the team.
The weapons that Leonardo uses are a pair of Ninjatos (a Japanese short sword), Leonardo is seen wearing blue and because he is the most skilled of the turtles he is names after one of the most skilled of the Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci.
The eyes and mouth are Photoshopped on plus I gave the sword a slight sharp edge, The background I made from scratch but I only had to work on this the once as I have adapted it and used it for all the images this week.
See you tomorrow turtle fans
Rob
Hello everyone, its been a bit difficult to find a national holiday of importance to celebrate today but thankfully after an exhaustive search (taking roughly 20 seconds) I have discovered that is is National Pumpkin Pie day.
Hello everyone and may I wish you a very happy national date nut bread day. We are half way through Christmas week and today I have made my own version of Buddy the Elf from the movie Elf.
Some of the most popular scenes in the film feature the exciting facial expressions of Will Ferrell who plays Buddy, translating those expressions into balloon/photoshop form was quite a challenge and I hope I did it justice. The face, jacket details and background is all made with photoshop, I also reworked the shape of the hat a little bit to get it looking more like the actual hat.
See you tomorrow for another festive photo
Rob
Today we have another Christmas movie, it is Die Hard, yes it IS a Christmas movie, even if Bruce Willis has recently stated that it is NOT a Christmas movie he is wrong, if a film takes place on or near Christmas then it IS a Christmas movie, Just like Ghostbusters 2 and Batman Returns.
I made this John McClane during a recent balloon event, the only additions I have made with Photoshop are the eyes but I did go to town with the background creating the Skyscraper and the explosion from scratch.
See you tomorrow my festive friends.
Rob
Hello everyone and welcome to a new week in my Take Five project, before I get to todays balloon I I would like to wish you a very happy National Sangria Day, I am pretty sure there are lots of people out there who would like to celebrate this important occasion.
This week I am starting Christmas week off with a very popular character, it is the Grinch from the 1957 children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr Seuss. I was never a big fan of the Grinch, we didn't really get Dr Seuss here in the UK when I was a child and I never really liked the early films however that all changed with the 2018 animated movie The Grinch starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the main character.
This balloon Grinch is made completely from lime green balloons (no surprise there), The mouth, nose, eyes and eyebrows were all put in using photoshop and I created the background from scratch. It was so nice to start the week off with such a jolly fun loving character.
See you tomorrow
Rob
I have really gone mad with the Photoshop with some of these sculptures this week and I have tried to pick a couple of lesser seen Characters too.
See you soon
Rob
Meet Gobo Fraggle, He is seen as one of the leader Fraggles, he is adventurous and loves to explore new parts of the Fraggle cave system. Gobo is also very brave being the only Fraggle brave enough to venture into the Captains lighthouse (or Docs workshop depending on where you live).
My Gobo Fraggle is made from a selection of balloons in lots of random shapes and sizes. Just like some of the other Fraggles it is just the pupils of the eyes which are Photoshopped on.
As this is my last Fraggle of the week I will do a recap tomorrow and announce my next theme on Sunday, ooo I wonder what the theme could be?
Have a good weekend
Rob
Today I have made a sculpture of Wembley Fraggle, when I was a child fan of the Fraggles Wembley was always my Fraggle, I loved him. Wembley is the youngest Fraggle and is always seen wearing his banana palm shirt, he hates arguments and really can't decide on anything (that is me all over). Wembley is a hard worker and has a job as the siren of the local Fraggle Fire Department.
This balloon Wembley was fairly simple to make from balloons however I then spent a very long time working on the extra effects in Photoshop. First of all I had to change the colour of Wembley's skin, he is actually a kind of yellow green, the next step was the banana palms on his shirt and his eye pupils, Just like with Mokey I used the same background and moved a few of the features around to make it look different.
See you all tomorrow
Rob
Hello everyone and happy International Monkey day, today my balloon sculpture is nothing to do with Monkeys, instead I am continuing the Fraggle Rock theme and we have the Fraggle called Mokey.
Mokey Fraggle is a bit like the mother figure of Fraggle Rock, I have always seen her as a bit of a hippy (which I love), she loves poetry, painting, meditating and writing in her diary, she also loves to mother the other Fraggles.
This Mokey is actually made up of lots of tiny bits of balloon, I struggled to find enough of the right colours so I pieced her together from all sorts of small bits. The eye pupils are the only part put on with Photoshop, plus I reworked yesterdays Boober background to create a new different background for Mokey.
Boober is a very serious Fraggle, he spends most of his life worrying about doom and disease, when he is not worrying about himself he spends his spare time warning others of the impending doom and disaster. Boober does have some hobbies, he loves laundry (hence the socks) and he enjoys cooking too.
This Boober is made from 6 balloons (all scraps from my scrap box), I obviously spent hours drawing on the eyes which are hidden under his hair. There is literally no photoshop work on Boober himself however I did create the cave and sock background using photoshop.
See you tomorrow folks and as the Fraggles say - Dance your cares away, worries for another day.
Rob
Hello Everyone and may I be the first to wish you a very happy International Carrot day. After a long break I am resuming my Take Five proje...
