What if?: Raphael as TLR

I asked Freddie to share this with everyone about this piece!

Freddie:

"I’m also a big fan of Raphael, he’s my favorite of the turtles to draw!

Some backstory on that collaboration piece:

In 2023 we were in Australia for two back-to-back conventions Sydney and Perth. We were there with John Sommariva, Kevin Eastman, David Yardin, etc. a really fun trip.

When we travel with the Australians (Jon & David), we usually hang out in each other’s hotel rooms, drawing and just hanging out- sometimes we do collaboration pieces, so while Jon was doing the pencils for this Leonardo 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CuDJL08S92B/?igsh=MTd1dnJwc2o0eHJ2OA==

I was penciling for the Raphael piece, which I thought of “What if Rafael was the last Ronin.” Where he was the last of the brothers to survive

After he was done penciling Leonardo. We swapped pieces for him to Ink, the Raphael for me to Ink his Leonardo. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx_7pcES4Jv/?igsh=MW4zYm00Mjh3cmFpZA==

There was a third piece we did where we split it up even more -I did the under sketch for Leonardo, and he did the sketch for Raphael and then we swap that piece back-and-forth. Jon was now inking my Leonardo and I was inking his Raphael."