Lesley Sierra Steady as She Goes

Zatanna and etc

2011-10-16T10:45:00.000-07:00

Made another Zatanna using a bit more coloring than the last one I made. After staring at her for a while, her face seems very Disney-esque... How I love using those cute sparkle brushes. Still more DC girls to come!

Poison Ivy and other DC girls...

2011-10-14T18:18:00.000-07:00

So I've been in a DC girls mood. I finally set up photoshop and my scanner on the laptop, so I have no excuse to scan my work in now. I've also been attempting to mess around with colors and painting speed.

Barbarian Age

2011-01-09T01:10:00.000-08:00

Upon the request of my boyfriend, I tried my hand at barbarians. I ended up making this one, who I call Age, and paired her up with a robot named Gelgran for a scifi/fantasy kind of thing, somewhat like the Herculoids or even Heavy Metal.

I made sure to use plenty of Franzetta references for the anatomy, and some of the concepts for Diablo for the outfit. I've done so many sketches of the two characters now, I think I'll go ahead and color one of the pair and post it as well.

Mild Cheesecake

2010-12-18T21:29:00.000-08:00

I don't think I have ever colored a blonde before...Anyway, this was a request back on my devinatart page. It was just going to be a quick sketch in the beginning but once I scanned it I couldn't put it down until it was fully colored. The tattoos are all based off of the good ol' Sailor Jerry designs. I had done a background for it as well, but I opted for the single color fill instead to keep the focus on the pinup.

Love that Guy

2010-12-06T21:17:00.000-08:00

I feel like I'm finally getting over the drawing block I've had for a long time. I decided to mess around with using textures and multiple line and colored layers.
My boyfriend requested I draw him his favorite green lantern, so I tried my hand at Guy Gardner. I loved this initial sketch I did of him so much, I decided not to change anything, even the fact that I ran out of space for his feet.

I feel like getting in more pencil sketches now, and not so much doing my line-work initially in digital like I used to...

Karen Starr

2010-10-10T11:46:00.000-07:00

I finally got around to drawing a proper Power Girl. For my first try I just wanted to get her facial structure, hair and outfit right enough. Next time I'll try for more of an action pose.

A Boy and his Mustache

2010-07-20T01:19:00.000-07:00

My cousin asked me if I could be his illustrator for his English's class's final project. They had to write a short childrens story. I tried a new way of doing backgrounds, just trying to make them different from the main character. Doing all 8 pages was surprisingly quick too. I had so much fun doing this, plus the story was so silly, I loved it.

Real World Pt1

2010-04-29T13:44:00.000-07:00

I've been looking up studios in the LA area to try and find work. So far got a few, but I MUST beef up my portfolio, so I've been doing the work using the advice given to me by Sang-Jin Kim during the Disney Inspire days portfolio review. I even found a place near me to do some figure drawing. So much work to do, so, so much....

Also here's my pirate queen. I ended up taking off more of the details I had for her, to give her a more animate-able look.

Graduated, now to work!

2010-03-28T19:51:00.000-07:00

So I've graduated from college, HURRAH! Now to rework my portfolio to be amazing so I can go out to the real world and try and find work. I'm going to add more variation in my work so I've been practicing the same theme in different styles. I've been doing SPACE recently, like this boy and his robot, think I'll go for pirates or monsters next...

Wolfman

2010-02-21T13:27:00.000-08:00

I wanted to try something different, so I did a non-human. I'm a fan of the classic horror films, so I felt I'd give a pass at a were-wolf. He ended up being pretty toony, which is what I unintentionally intended XD

Juan Colorado

2010-02-06T14:25:00.000-08:00

Been working on my character designs to add to my portfolio. I didn't know what to come up with for a while, so I did characters based off songs I know. Here's Juan Colorado and Night Nurse. Wanted to do something more stylized this time.

Rockette and retrofuture junk

2009-09-15T20:21:00.000-07:00

I've been getting into retrofuture lately. I've always been a fan but never made a piece about it. I wanted the girl to have REALLY big hair, guess it's because I was feeling like Barbarella. The trouble I had where with the colors. Wasn't sure what would go with what. I also tried using as many layers as possible, though around the end, I forgot that rule, so a lot of the little details got put in the same layer as the line-work.

Animations of old

2009-06-13T18:51:00.000-07:00

Dead Ed and Tiff from Lesley Sierra on Vimeo.

Look what I found! This was my first real animation project ever, I always wanted to finish it, and I have to update it now since the character design has changed since I made it.

Story time

2009-06-08T21:46:00.000-07:00

I had been pondering this idea to practice a simpler style. I'll be making a short little storybook about my dog. I have here the final design of my sweet and funny little Cheva, I think I'll add myself in it too. I'll be working, and hopefully finishing the book during my summer break.

2009-05-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

Girls, girls, girls. Just getting ready for comic-con and making giant sketch compilation pages. I'm thinking of compiling a second page of girls, since I just have too many of them that I like. I'm also thinking of placing each sketch in chronological order, just to show my progress over the years.

La Llorona

2009-05-14T13:12:00.000-07:00

I've been wanting to do a series of images using the mythological characters of my culture, for now, the only one I've done is this one of la llorona......

First post

2009-05-08T08:35:00.000-07:00

So this is my first post, I'm gonna try to get some work on here soon....