New York Comic Con 2014!

NYCC 2014! 

I thought I would make a new post specifically for my NYCC events! Come see me at my 2 events at NYCC on Sat and Suday! 

I'm very honored and humbled to be a part of these 2 events: 

1. On Saturday, I will be on the "Creatively Energizing Your Students with Comic Books and the Arts" panel!

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2. On Sunday, I will be giving a live demo On the Cintiq of the MY LITTLE PONY artwork I created for BronyCAN 2014! 

Here's a more detailed look at what the events are about:

First on Saturday, October 11- I will be on the "Creatively Energizing Your Students with Comic Books and the Arts" panel.

From 11:15 am-noon in Rm1A05: 

I am looking forward to talking about working in comics and helping kids in the arts. Below are the other inspiring members of the panel that are joining me and some pics from my last event at the Ronald McDonald House drawing comics with the great kids there!

Included on the panel will be such Kids Comic Con luminaries as:• Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (puppeteer and voice of Sesame Street’s Abby Cadabby)• Noel MacNeal (Writer, Director, Puppeteer, voice of Bear in the Big Blue House)• Ray Felix (Executive Director of Bronx Heroes ComicCon, educator, Broadway/movie/TV art director, comics writer: A World Without Superheroes)• Diana Leto (Designer/Production Artist: Sesame Street, artist for Cave Girl comic strip and IDW’s My Little Pony comic book)• Alex Simmons (KCC co-founder, educator, playwright, comics writer: Archie, Tarzan, Scooby Doo)• Paul Castiglia (comics writer-editor-historian: Archie, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Mike Lopez (educator and moderator of the panel)

On Sunday, October 12- I will be giving a live demo On the Cintiq of the MY LITTLE PONY artwork I created for BronyCAN 2014! 

From noon-1pm at the Wacom Booth: 

I will show how I created the cover artwork (shown below- where the Mane 6 are fighting the changlings) and will describe my process from sketch, to inks, to final colors!

October Pancakfest! Diana Leto's upcoming October events!

This October I am a busy pancake! Starting tomorrow, my October Pancakefest events begin! Here are the events!

Saturday, October 4th: Ronal McDonald House Chararity Event! 
Tomorrow I am taking part in a great private charity event for the Ronald McDonald House!

I created this flyer for this private event that 

is being co-run by Kids Comic Con for NYC's patients and their families, as well as patients/families from other NYC-area children's hospitals/care facilities. 
I'm really looking forward to this fun event tomorrow and am bringing some fun artwork to hand out!

Here's the flyer:

The rest of my October Pancakefest includes:

New York Comic Con! 

On Saturday, October 11- I will be on the "Creatively Energizing Your Students with Comic Books and the Arts" panel. 

from 11:15 am-noon in Rm1A05: 

Included on the panel will be such Kids Comic Con luminaries as:• Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (puppeteer and voice of Sesame Street’s Abby Cadabby)• Noel MacNeal (Writer, Director, Puppeteer, voice of Bear in the Big Blue House)• Ray Felix (Executive Director of Bronx Heroes ComicCon, educator, Broadway/movie/TV art director, comics writer: A World Without Superheroes)• Diana Leto (Designer/Production Artist: Sesame Street, artist for Cave Girl comic strip and IDW’s My Little Pony comic book)• Alex Simmons (KCC co-founder, educator, playwright, comics writer: Archie, Tarzan, Scooby Doo)• Paul Castiglia (comics writer-editor-historian: Archie, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Mike Lopez (educator and moderator of the panel)

Also at New York Comic Con! 

On Sunday, October 12- I will be giving a live demo On the Cintiq of the MY LITTLE PONY artwork I created for BronyCAN 2014! 

from noon-1pm at the Wacom Booth: 

I will show how I created the cover artwork (shown below- where the Mane 6 are fighting the changlings) and will describe my process from sketch, to inks, to final colors!

On Saturday, October 25th: Jim Hanley's Universe Halloween Signing with Paul Castiglia!

I will be at Jim Hanley's Universe Comic book store to sign copies of THE HALLOWEEN LEGION (The Halloween Legion ™ Diana Leto and Martin Powell) and selling Halloween themed sketch cards including THE CAVE GIRL and MY LITTLE PONY! I will be signing my work alongside the great writer Paul Castiglia (comics writer-editor-historian: Archie, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)! 

More info to come on this event soon!

My Little Pony: Variant Cover made for Core Games exclusive for BronyCAN!

Very excited to fully display my first MLP cover that I created as an exclusive variant cover for BronyCAN!
SOoo much fun to draw! Hope you all enjoy!

It's an exclusive cover sold by Core Games but I am going to see if I can get some copies for some of my fans asking me about it! (and thank ye fans for asking about it, its very much appreciated!)
I will also be showing more original artwork and the availability for commissioned work on my site soon!
http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Comic_issue_22_Core_Games_cover.jpg 

RIP Robin Williams, 1951-2014

A quick sketch of Robin Williams. He brought so much laughter to us all. Personally, I always felt that you could see that he experienced pain and he often talked about sadness of life but he choose to bring laughter to our lives. Thank you Robin, you will be missed. RIP.

Diana Leto at San Diego Comic Con 2014!

Come see me at SDCC 2014!
I will be there for 3 fun events! 
Firstly will be the amazing Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc™ Panel!
Then afterwards I am giving 2 live demo's at the Wacom booth! 
The first demo is for Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse upcoming Jungle Tales of Tarzan! 
The second is for My Little Pony!

SeaBreeze, My Little Pony, says Do your work! Don't procrastinate!

Just for fun, I drew Seabreeze from My Little Pony. I thought it would be fun to draw her reminding me to do my work because I thought this character was so quirky and really well executed. I could hear her outspoken voice yelling at me as I drew it! Thanks Seabreeze, back to work for me.

Enjoy all, hope it makes ye laugh!

My new bio for ECOF and more!

This is me surrounded by my work and work that inspires me. I've also included my bio and my new CAVE GIRL POSTER!

I hope you guys will subscribe today to follow the Cave Girl and more ERB classic comics AND to enter the Cave Girl T-SHIRT RAFFLE!

http://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics/

Nadara, THE CAVE GIRL, wishes you a HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

NADARA WANTS YOU! 
Celebrating Memorial Day with an exclusive retro-styled poster for this week’s Cave Girl comic strip! Will YOU join the Cave Girl and be a HERO?!?
For a Limited Time, subscribe this week and be one of 3 lucky winners who WIN THIS EXCLUSIVE ART ON A T-SHIRT! 

To enter, forward your e-mail receipt from ERB Inc Comics to: NADARA@LetoStudio.com
Join the adventures at Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.™! Only $1.99 per month for ALL weekly series comic strips!
http://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics/ 

Diana Leto Sketchbook: THE APARTMENT with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon & BOARDWALK EMPIRE's Kelly MacDonald as Margaret Schroeder

Recently watched the movie THE APARTMENT and was charmed by it's story and style. I did this sketch and india ink washed inspired by the amazing performances from Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. I love seeing people with such character in films! 

 Also, Just started watching Boardwalk Empire and did a quick sketch of Margaret Schroeder here. Kelly MacDonald has such a wonderful look to her and she's a brilliant actress. 
Enjoy all!

THE CAVE GIRL, Episode #23: The Hero Rises!

Artists are often suspected of drawing their own image into their characters.
In this case, I admit using my own childhood photos as a model for the young CAVE GIRL Nadara.

Looking forward to diving in more to Nadara's past in next weeks episode entitled: THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVE GIRL!
Hope you will all join us at EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS INC.™!

KIDS COMIC CON 2014!

Thought I would share pics of this past weekend where I was hosting a drawing workshop at Kids ComiCon in the Bronx, NY. KIDS COMIC CON! 

I had a great time creating comics with the kids! 

There were some amazing young artists there!

 Here's a pic of me with my comic book artist team at KIDS COMIC CON! 

I was hosting a drawing workshop about creating comics in the Bronx, NY. These 3 girls where too cool and super excited about helping out! Thank you future artists!

Noel MacNeal with his fantastic drawings for THE HALLOWEEN LEGION comic! 

Showing some of my work, thanks to Lyntha The for the photo!

Here's Denny Daniel and I at his Museum of Interesting Things!  His antiques and inventions are so much fun and educational!

Little Spiderman here (though I'm so sorry I didn't get a full pic with him!) Did the coolest ending to THE HALLOWEEN LEGION™ STORY! I love the AUTUMN WINS illustration, too cool! The Halloween Legion™ Diana Leto and Martin Powell.

These girls had some amazing imaginations and great illustrations for the ending to this My Little Pony comic! Too much fun!

 

The amazing, engaging, and incredible Alexander Simmons shown with his amazing works! Thanks Alex for putting together KCC and for always being so inspiring! 

Kids Comic Con fun with Paul Castiglia and an Edison cylinder from the sublime collection of Denny Daniel's Museum of Interesting Things!

Some more fun pics of the kid's artwork and just fun comic times!

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.

Teen Titans Go!

Here's a fun Teen Titans Go! piece I did recently. Enjoy!

Raven is one of my favorite characters! And thank you to Martin Powell for the balloon text!

My Little Pony Sequential Art!

Here's a My Little Pony Sequential Page I worked on. I thought I would share with you all! Enjoy!

The Halloween Legion™ is in the new Kids' Comic Con Anthology comic book!

Excited to announce that The Halloween Legion™ is in the new Kids' Comic Con Anthology comic book! 

http://t.co/1IXAwkMfGT 



“The KCC Comics Funhouse is first-and-foremost a celebration of comics for kids and a way to offer children safe and engaging entertainment,” -Alex Simmons, KCC organizer 


THE HALLOWEEN LEGION™ (co-owned by myself and Martin Powell) are grateful to be a part of the book and hope all the kids enjoy!

THE MUPPET CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA! Signed by the great Craig Shemin!

Reading my personally signed copy of THE MUPPET CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA by Craig Shemin!
It's a fantastic read, taking me back to some of my favorite Muppet memories including the 7-ft. tall talking carrot from The Muppet Show!
Pick up your copy today!
http://www.amazon.com/Muppets-Character-Encyclopedia-DK-Publishing/dp/1465417486

Medusa sketch

I've always loved mythology (but how could I not with a name like Diana!),
so I took a little break from my work today to do this quick sketch of Medusa.

Hope you all enjoy, don't stare too long! ;)

THE HALLOWEEN LEGION is nominated for the Rondo Award!

Martin Powell and I are thrilled that our HALLOWEEN LEGION™ has been nominated for the prestigious Rondo Award, as "Best Horror Comic" for 2013! The Halloween Legion thanks you all!

The Rondo Awards honor the best in classic horror creativity, research, and film preservation.

Congratulations to Terry Beatty, Mike Mignola, Steve Niles, Craig Yoe and many more, as well!

http://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/?p=32

Lois Lane Pin Up

Just for fun I decided to do a fun illustration of Lois Lane - drinking some coffee and being sassy, of course. :)