Mary Poppins

Rewatching Mary Poppins and just had to try and capture the beauty that is Julie Andrews.

Medusirena Marina: the Sea Witch we all know and love

I love all things Medusirena Marina! So I created this illustration of her for MerMay! Enjoy!

Handmaids Tale Art

Created some illustrations of the great #madelinebrewer as #Janine in #TheHandmaidsTale. Hope you all enjoy. #DianaLeto #illustration #art #design 

MY LITTLE PONY EXCLUSIVE cover for SDCC 2016

Come see me at Booth number 5004 and my SDCC Exclusive My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #44 Labyrinth Variant! It was an honor to draw a Bowie Homage!

This will be available at San Diego and Pre Orders online with Comicxposure for those who can't make it!

#comicxposure#comicbooks #comics #mylittlepony #discord#fluttershy #mylittleponyfriendshipismagic #labyrinth#davidbowie #ncbd #newcomicbookday#newcomicswednesday #newcomicsday#igcomiccommunity #igcomicfamily

Just for fun drawings

Rosario Dawson Panel!

It can be revealed! Along side Mike Lopez, I will be moderating the #RosarioDawson Panel at Atlantic City Boardwalk Con next Saturday May 14th! You can bet I'll be asking #wonderwoman and #girlsincomics questions! Squeee! I can't wait! #DoACBC 

Quick mornin' coffee sketches

Some quick mornin' coffee sketches I drew up in about 20 min or so, just for fun.

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 :)

Sketches, just for fun!

Been pretty busy lately and haven't been posting regularly on my blog. So I thought I would quickly post some of my warm up sketches I draw before my workday starts.
These are just for fun :)

My Little Pony : Frank Frazetta The Egyptian Queen / Rarity Mash up.

Here's my Frank Frazetta The Egyptian Queen / Rarity Mash up. I had to cutes-ify it with Rarity and Spike.. and of course Opalescence. 
I posted this sketch a while ago and finally had a moment to finish it for the amazing Paul Lau and his awesome Core Games store up in Vancouver! If your up there, go and check out the original at his cool store!

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.

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/

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!