Pink Girl: Playing with Color

For this digital painting, I was inspired by a music video with the most lovely soft pink lighting. I wanted to play with color, & I love how it turned out! Painted on my Citiq tablet in Photoshop.

Hair-Takeover: Art-Wednesday

Ah what a wonderful & busy week it has been! I caught myself looking like this, and laughed in the mirror. A total hair-takeover! So frazzled & giant that it left me feeling a lot like Hermione Granger.

Original Artwork by Brianna Leahy, Photoshop & Cintiq

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just wanted to drop this here, and wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!

Original Artwork by Brianna Leahy, Photoshop & Cintiq

See the original post and more daily artwork on my Instagram, Here!

Lots of Art! Art-Wednesday

Hello!
First I would like to say Happy (Chinese) New Year!!!

Happily I can report that I have been successful in my 365 daily art challenge, so I want to share with you some of my more recent and favorite works!

  

Digital Doodles:  (Left) 90's Phone Game "Snake" Reimagined.  (Right) Wombat Wearing White Whale pants!

     

Digital Sketch:  (Left) Corgi Underdrawing/Work in Progress.  (Right) Corgi Finished Paint, clean-up & Color

   

Fan Art, Digital:  (Left) Harry Potter & Hedwig.  (Right) Wonder Woman on the way to save the day!

*All rights to these characters belong to their creators, of course!

   

Traditional Anatomy Studies:  (Left) Human Anatomy/ Gesture Drawings, pencil.  (Right) Skull Study, pencil.

Both used reference from 'Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist' by S.R. Peck

  

People Doodles:  (Left) Pencil drawings while watching the movie 'Stick it' (2006).  (Right) Pencil & Copic Marker Lady. 


That is all for tonight! Thank you as always for reading! See you next week.

Art-Wednesday: Birthday Edition!

Today is a special Art-Wednesday, because it is my birthday! So here is a silly birthday-doodle of a birthday pup as happy as I am. I will leave this post as a short one, and go back to celebrating! Catch you next week and thanks for reading!

Sketched in Photoshop on my Wacom Cintiq tablet computer:

Sculpting Mini-Elephants: An Art-Thursday

Hello! Happy Art-Thursday :)

I was recently reminded how much I love and missed sculpting! An old friend of mine visited, and we reminisced about how we used to make sculpted-creations for each other as gifts! So I was inspired to make her this little guy for old time's sake:

 

Baby Grizzly Sculpt

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I enjoyed the process so much, that I decided I would create more, even smaller sculptures! My first thought was of a tiny elephant, and how sweet he would be as an animal totem pendant! I thought it might be fun to see my process through the elephant's creation, so without further ado, here it is:

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1.  Concept 
First, I go on my trusty computer to look for reference, this time of asian elephants. I chose asian elephants specifically because I remembered loving their structure and colors. Based on my reference (pictured left), I came up with this quick pen and digital sketch (right) for my elephant pendant:

 

Reference & My Original Concept

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2. Sculpt
This little guy (pictured left) was my first draft. I used a small bunch of floral wire to bulk his body and give me a good handle to hold him by as I sculpted. I used Super Sculpey polymer clay and a myriad of wood and metal sculpting tools, and my hands to sculpt his body.

Once his sculpt was finished, it was baking time! The middle image shows him at the baking process, and the start of my casting a mold of him. I used Sculpey mold maker.

In the photo on the right, I have some of his family! It was my very first time creating a mold, so the elephant brethren on the right were very roughed out by the mold, and then I took over the rest of the sculpting by hand.

 

Elephant Sculpt Process

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3. Hook & Paint
For the necklaces, I add a hook to the raw clay elephants and bake them in the oven already intact. Then it is painting time! I use all acrylic paints, and the (almost) finished product can be seen below! The last finishing touch I'd like to experiment with is adding a varnish to protect the paint further and make him look A+

Elephant Pendant, First Draft

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4. Review
I am always looking for ways to improve my work, and these guys are no exception! I am pretty happy with how they are looking so far, but like I said, I'd like to give them finishing touches. I will definitely experiment with varnish, and I would like to make the next group a little more pudgy in the body, and work on an even smoother surface finish of the sculpt.

I will post an update later with my improvements! But for now, this will conclude our Art-Thursday!

Thank you for reading, and check back next week!

Art Wednesday: An Art Dump

Good evening Art-Wednesday readers!

Before I get too into all the details of my new adventures in artwork, I wanted to catch you all up on my work since I went blog-silent.

My last individual post was in honor of my Great Uncle. Needless to say this was a major factor in my time away from blogging. Since then, I am happy to say I got my art groove back and have worked even harder on my artwork in his memory. He helped (a lot) in funding my art education, and I was never able to express my full gratitude. So, without further ado, here are some of my favorite pieces I have created since then:

I worked on developing a mermaid like character for my science collaboration...

 
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I got back into more frequent doodling...

 
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I tried my hand at Copic Markers for the first time....

 

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And had fun with new ideas!

 
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Well that is all for this Art-Wednesday update. Catch you next week! Thanks!