Just for fun drawings

Pin Up Girl studies

I've been working on some Pin-Up girl studies. Here is some of my works-in-progress and illustrations from my sketchbook. Hope you all enjoy!

Some My Little Pony artwork for fun :)

Haven't been updating my blog as I should have so  here are some My Little Pony pieces I did for fun. Hope you all enjoy, more to come soon!

Sorry the lighting is not better on my watercolor here.
I only took a few photos on my phone before I gave it to a friend :)

Good Girl / Bad Girl Art sketchbook study

I feel that it's important to exercise my painting skills every now and then with a fun and quick sketchbook entry. Getting away from the computer and working with traditional painting materials is something I enjoy doing in my spare time.

This week my exploration focused on Good Girl/Bad Girl pin up art. I used classic photography of Veronica Lake and Betty Page as reference. I painted in duotone colors to help emphasis the good girl/bad girl personality.

After doing a few Veronica Lakes and Betty Page studies, I experimented with some Japanese Sumi-E painting sketch paper. I still am getting used to its organic texture but after a few test runs I created these two mermaid pin-ups. I'm somewhat happy with the results but I will want to explore this more.
Enjoy!

AUTUMN vs. THE RAT GIANT!

Here's a sneak peak of my in-progress artwork for the ONE TRIBE Benefit Anthology.
It's a Halloween Legion™  Fable entitled "AUTUMN vs. THE RAT GIANT!"
Enjoy all, I'll bring some more sneak peaks to KIDS COMIC CON!

Illustrated by myself and written by Martin Powell.
The Halloween Legion™ Diana Leto and Martin Powell.

Mermaid Watercolor

Bringing in the New Year with a fresh watercolor illustration. Here's to swimming into the first day of the year with hope, imagination, and adventure.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

—Hans Christian Andersen

For prints of this piece or more of my artwork please go to my store website here or feel free to contact me at diana@dianaleto.com.

Frogs!

You may have noticed, I have quite the obsession with frogs. Love me some froggies.

Here's a quick water color I did. It's loosely based on the frogs I used to read in storybooks as a kid.
And by 'used to' I mean I 'still do' read children's storybooks. ;)

Phoenix

Here is my most recent pin-up. Started in watercolor and finished with inking and some Photoshopping.
She certainly became quite the little phoenix. ;)