Showing posts with label sketches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sketches. Show all posts

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Inactivity




I hope you forgive my inactivity. I was pretty active for a while, but I stopped updating due to my working a little too hard and being a little depressed. 

I hope you all have a great holiday season, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. 

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Same Love

If you haven't heard the song "Same Love" By Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, you should probably listen to it. I have been all sorts of busy since I got into the swing of things at work and there is a hefty amount of work on my plate previously and hence forth.

But I hope to post as frequently as I can, with little musings as I always do.

So I drew this, after watching that video. This painting is a technical nightmare, but it's what came to mind (without drawing real people.)

What really brought this up, was the realization that I am the only woman in the development team in a supervisor role. I don't know why that bugged me so much - but it's been eating at me for a few days now. But feminism in gaming is a big can of worms I don't want to open on this blog. But it's vaguely correlated to this, because it is a human rights issue - realizing that you're swimming in a sea of y chromosomes and you have to tuck your bottom two prongs in to make your X look more like a Y. What? Sorry that got strange fast.

It sort of degraded into this, after listening to Same Love on loop to the point of my (somewhat hypocritical) neighbours asking me to turn it down. As far as the painting goes, I tried to keep it simple - and  I didn't go for hyperrealism or any...technical boundaries. I just said, paint it and be happy with whatever comes of it.

Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for reading.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Jean Valjean Study

time: 2 hours, Photoshop CS5 w/ Intuos4

Another study, since I started doing some concept art and immediately lost steam. But I still wanted to paint. 

I'm off to Japan on Tuesday, so I can't guarantee any other artwork will go up before I go. Please like my facebook page for this blog! https://www.facebook.com/ArtOfLeishaRiddel

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Dr. King Schultz Study

About 2 hours

I tried to include more of the environment and lost interest. Eyes are getting easier however.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Django Freeman Study

About 1 - 1.5 hours

The history behind this costume is badass.

That's all I had time for today.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Quick Robb Stark


About an hour on an off on Wacom Intuos 4.

I diddled about in between. Likeness improving.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Quick Cersei Lannister Study


About 1.5 hours on Wacom Cintiq 21UX

Lena Headey's face is interesting. So much so that it made me mad. But it was fun enough. I had a Ned Stark one started but I left it on another machine - so I decided to just to start another one. Likeness is getting better, but still not there yet. Spoon.

Please check out mine and Voice of Reason's youtube channel, I'm not even gonna be subtle about it anymore: http://www.youtube.com/nextestrogen

Love u

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Joffrey Baratheon Study

About 4-5 hours using both Wacom Intuos4/Cintiq

I had a bitch of a time with his eyes.

Still don't like them. He also kind of looks like a lesbian.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Daenerys Targaryen Study

About 3-4 Hours using Wacom Intuos4/Cintiq

So I'm pretty shat at studies, and I'm totally jelly of my Concept Lead Abe, who is literally a painting machine

so I thought I'd do one of Dany, and especially since she's literally the most wonderful thing on prime time television at the moment. It was fairly difficult, but that's because I was swamped most of the day - didn't have too much of a break - then some stuff happened.

I was going to work on my youtube channel Next Estrogen that I work on with the Voice of Reason (Rosemary) of Guys with Pencils, and I forgot a bunch of files - so that didn't happen either.
So I Finished this. Enjoy!

(so much name dropping)

Sunday, March 31, 2013

WIPs



I would finish them except I have work tomorrow, and likely no free time hereafter.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Marius and Eponine

"Eponine! You are the friend who has brought me here! Thanks to you, I am one with the Gods and Heaven is near!"

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Sketch Dump

Javert

apparently drawing Alex in this view is therapeutic
I'd actually have more, except I left my USB key elsewhere.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

I don't like you

This was a genuinely awful scene in the movie, and her little mousey delivery made it for sure. I just felt like drawing it.

Look Down!


Monday, February 4, 2013

Cosette and Valjean


I can't promise that's the last doodle I'll do of Les Miserables. I just can't.

Jean Valjean

If you were not yet aware, I love Tom Hooper's Les Miserables. The musical has a special place in my heart anyway, but he did great justice to it. Here's Jean Valjean.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Too Much Guild Wars 2


QuAgGaN LoVe YoU~!

If you play guild wars 2, you know what I mean. You might be wondering why all the silly posts lately. I just wanted to prove to you that I'm not dead - but I'm not free enough to do good art.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Doodle

k. back to guild wars 2 lolz.