Something new… kind of.

Leanne — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:08:04 +0000

Worked on this during the trip to Las Vegas for NeonCon – more on that in a bit, been insanely busy since the show. Thinking of doing something with it, probably a digital painting, after this round of projects wraps up in the next couple of weeks.

Speaking of which, I should get back to work : )

@#$%.

Leanne — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:45:33 +0000

Nevermind, should be working now : )

~~…gah.~~

Found out the hard way that my contact page is nine kinds of messed up since I last upgraded this WP theme… I’m working on fixing it, but I have a lot to work on over the next few days, so for the time being – If anyone needs to contact me, feel free to use info at leannebuckley dot com.

Apologies!

Chicago Comic-Con

Leanne — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:25:53 +0000

Had a brilliant time last weekend. Had a great spot in Artists’ Alley, and the prints ended up doing phenomenally well. Actually sold out of two by the end of the show on Sunday, with only a few of the third left. Actually thinking of revising the background on that one… People actually stopped in their tracks on seeing the artwork, and when it’s so easy to lapse into tunnel-vision in a place like AA, that was really saying something. : ) It was incredibly humbling to see the response to the prints. Will have to make up more for the next show!

There were a ton of requests for other characters, and there are a few of my own I’m looking to work up in this style, updates will be coming : )

Poison Ivy

Leanne — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:20:56 +0000

Another of the prints for ~~Wizard World~~ Chicago Comic-Con. Zatanna was kind of the grand experiment, ended up doing a lot of separate elements that came together later. With this piece, it was all drawn out and inked as a whole. Here’s the blue line as a preview:

Kind of going for a 1960′s Brigitte Bardot vibe. The face ended up being a little too wide, I narrowed it slightly and tweaked the neck a little. Anyway, back to work.

More to show later! : )

Eclipse Phase – Sunward

Leanne — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:49:39 +0000

I was lucky enough to provide artwork for Eclipse Phase, a brilliant role-playing game that’s doing an incredible job at defying genre. Sunward is the latest supplement, the PDF of which was released today. With thanks to Rob Boyle and the team at Posthuman, I was given the okay to post a couple of Sunward pieces that were created for the book:

Had a blast working on these. It’s not every day you’re asked to paint an androgynous transhuman character having a masturbation session with a virtual reality sim of the Venusian clouds. How awesome is that? It was very cool to see that piece included as cover art for Melt, a stand alone product released as a kind of preview for Sunward.

Eclipse Phase is fun : )

Zatanna.

Leanne — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:57:04 +0000

So.

I’m setting up in Artists’ Alley at Wizard World Chicago next month. For the first time in three years. Can’t even believe it’s been that long. I’m working on a whole lot of whatnot for the show, part of which is a (kind of?) series of four Art Nouveau prints. The first of which is of:

The figure is inked, working on the design and layout of the piece now, I’ll have more to show soon : )

The Queen of Crows

Leanne — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:44:45 +0000

I recently had the pleasure of working with Monica Valentinelli and Shari Hill on THE QUEEN OF CROWS – a digital release short story for which I provided the character illustration. It was definitely an interesting piece, I don’t even want to get into how long it took to get the hair right, must get better at inking curves : )

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The project has garnered several positive reviews across the board, I’m presently working on a new illustration of Mahochepi, I’ll have blue-line pencils posted when they’re finished. Last week, Monica created a trailer for the project (I have a hard time calling it an “e-book”, it really is so much more than that), with music provided by James Semple, both did amazing work on this:

This was a blast to work on. Planning on working up some prints for Wizard World Chicago, along with some other stuff I’m presently working on, pics to come : )

Welcome!

Leanne — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:20:13 +0000

Greetings, programs : )

This has truly been quite the project. I’ve had sites over the years, but never under my own domain. I had no clue as to how to go about having a website made. I knew I wanted something that I could update easily, and I like the blog format that WordPress provides – it’d be fun to post random sketches, or pieces where I could write about the process behind them or the technique used or whatnot. This site is definitely a work in progress, I’m really looking forward to expanding with sketches, photos, and all kinds of craziness.

Should be fun : )