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 :)

NYCC 2015!

YAY! It's that time of year again when leaves are turning orange and red, spooky Halloween tunes are in your head, and NYCC is on the way! 
This year I have an exclusive #NYCC #ComicXposure #MyLittlePony Cover! YAYAY!

I especially loved creating this cover because I drew Zecora using a microscope! YAY science! 
 Here is my schedule and some of my art process below! 

I will be signing this exclusive cover for ComicXposure at Booth 562 on 

• Saturday (from 1-3) and 

• Sunday (From 10:30-12:30) 

at #NYCC! 

AND

I will be doing a live My Little Pony Drawing Workshop 

for Kids' Comic Con on Sunday 

from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM in Room 1C01

Come see the whole awesome KCC gang including Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Noel MacNeal​, Paul Castiglia​, Alexander Simmons​, and more! #spike #zecora #MLP

https://t.co/Dc1lE5TkLF

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!

&

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!