How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Draw

Just trying to push some poses tonight

2012-01-22T22:03:00.001-08:00

Just dropping this here

2012-01-19T13:30:00.000-08:00

Just dropping this WIP here to say I love how Jocelyn is turning out. If I can just get all my other Psyche characters up to this level... then you all can see the entire cast finally heh.

Rogue WIP

2012-01-10T18:36:00.001-08:00

A Rogue piece I've been tweaking with for the past whole, I'm trying to figure out best shading for it. Although I'm still not satisfied with the face. It's been the most troubling part of the piece for me so far.

Christmas Card Sketch

2011-12-23T06:02:00.000-08:00

A successful time

2011-12-23T04:27:00.001-08:00

The Child's play auction was a success. A kind soul bought my finished girls of gaming piece and I feel like I did my part in helping sick kids out there. I've been working on getting Indigo and Pinion comics and concept up to date and print ready this month. Here's some sketches here and there and a bonus Christmas themed art piece featuring characters from the awesome comic Reed Gunther

It's been quite a crazy month

2011-11-19T21:52:00.000-08:00

So this past while I've been busy with NYCC and Youmacon in Detroit. I had good times at those conventions, thanks to everyone who came by and said hello. I've also been busy with some big projects. I started a Bayonetta piece at Youmacon to combat how females are always hanging off of powerful men.
I've also been working on a huge piece to donate to the Child's Play charity ball next month. Featuring classic ladies of gaming.

Chrono Trigger WIP

2011-09-28T03:29:00.000-07:00

Trying to get an Urban high contrast feels to give the game I love some style.

Successful Avatar series

2011-09-14T16:24:00.000-07:00

http://chicochan.deviantart.com/art/Firebending-Masters-243635550?q=gallery%3Achicochan%2F728572&qo=12

finally finished my Avatar, the last air bender series, check them out on Deviantart. They seem to go over really well with kids at conventions!

Indigo Kali

2011-09-14T15:52:00.001-07:00

New WIP image. Trying to capture the feel of Hindu religious art and push myself into doing something I don't normally do.

Started this at Dragoncon, hopefully I'll have it as a print at AWA in a few short weeks.

Paint it Black

2011-06-24T15:13:00.000-07:00

Working on a new painting, some concept sketches and the flats!

More Updates on creepy painting

2011-06-14T08:42:00.000-07:00

Another WIP

2011-06-03T10:08:00.000-07:00

Trying to do a creepy Indigo painting here.

Just some Poses

2011-05-30T19:45:00.001-07:00

To the Skies and Beyond

2011-05-17T19:14:00.000-07:00

I've never been real good at stopping my workflow to take progress pictures, but I tried a ,ittle harder on this piece. I wanted to do a marker sketch since I really love working with copics. I love how colorful I can get a page with them and I knew I wanted to do a Skies of Arcadia piece.

More Previews

2011-05-13T12:10:00.001-07:00

Preview sketch of the Avatar Fire Nation piece I've been promising everyone. I will get done by Acen folks and it will be amazing! I've also go the first sketch for my space channel 5 piece I didn't end up using. Streaming the new version live now!
http://www.livestream.com/thesaltfalls

Space Channel 5

2011-05-10T02:52:00.000-07:00

Very Rough Sketch of my next piece. One of my favorite old time Sega games! I should just make my whole booth at conventions SEGA prints hahaha

2011 Sketchbook cover

2011-05-05T13:56:00.000-07:00

This year I finally put together a collection of my work to release in a small sketchbook format to sell at cons. Now I'm working on a cover for that sketchbook, and I decided to feature my characters Katze & Perrin. I rarely draw her anymore (Pinion project is on the back burner) even though I love the design and she always gets a positive response from people. Anyways I drew the initial pose and decided I didn't like the expression and overall it just felt "flat" & "dead" so I redrew it again and I'm much happier with the result!

Very much looking forward to painting this later!

Working on this gem for Anime Boston

2011-04-20T00:42:00.000-07:00

Trying to finish one last print before leaving for AB tomorrow night!

Stages of Zuko

2011-04-12T21:46:00.000-07:00

I worked on these three Zuko marker drawings today that will be part of a mixed media piece I'm working on. They're supposed to represent to three most important stages of Zuko's life and how he changes as a character. Now to take scissors to them...

Convention Season is in full force

2011-04-08T11:10:00.000-07:00

C2E2 went great, and I also attended Megacon afterwards. Now I'm gearing up for Anime Boston in a few weeks. Been doing many print layouts and marker sketches to hone my skills.

Static Shock done for SkratchJams

Venture Brothers Piece I finished.

My Convention banner, used to help people find my table!

Some WIP for upcoming print idea I have in mind.

Working my butt off for C2E2!

2011-03-01T23:13:00.000-08:00

Sucker Punch Sketch WIP

Happy Holidays and Merry Yuletides to everyone

2010-12-27T14:31:00.000-08:00

My holiday card for this year and a large alice in wonderland commission that I finally finished up

Pick a Cat, Draw a Girl

2010-12-22T11:04:00.000-08:00

My entry for Harvey James' annual community piece.
I also did some gesture sketches and practices and one happen to turn into Faith, Hurray for Mirror's Edge.

Black Swan

2010-12-21T13:17:00.000-08:00

I was very impressed by the film so I saw fit to do this sketch when I got home. I need to do more quick stuff like this.

Child's Play painting

2010-12-20T10:59:00.000-08:00

Working on a large painting of classic gaming ladies alongside all my current jobs to auction off for Child's Play charity. It's been so long since I worked with acrylics.

Challengers

2010-11-14T00:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.challengerscomics.com/

Today I went to challenger's comics with some friends and drew Indigo on their community sketchpad. It was a pretty awesome comic shop. I also did this sketch on the livestream tonight and I'll finish it up on another session tomorrow: Check out my livestream channel:
http://www.livestream.com/thesaltfalls

Devil Summoner

2010-11-12T23:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.livestream.com/thesaltfalls

Some more random fanarts. I've been trying to be more confident and paint on the Livestream more regularly.

Livestreaming Indigo pages now

2010-11-10T17:42:00.001-08:00

Painting my comic, Live streaming now if anyone's interested:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-salt-falls

A Charming Man

2010-11-09T19:15:00.000-08:00

Two Simple commissions I finished up today. Simple cell shading, tried to push the poses further than I usually do for commissions.

Dia de los Muertos

2010-11-02T23:49:00.000-07:00

Sorry all, I haven't meant to neglect this blog so. NYCC definitely went amazingly. I had a wonderful time and sold alot of work. I was working myself trying to get Indigo up and running around Halloween time. I missed my own deadline, but I managed to finished this ballin' creepy promo image. Here's the final along with the sketch and some of the ink blowing my BF did.

Happy day of the dead everyone!

New Drawing, Bayonetta

2010-09-28T23:48:00.000-07:00

iNew drawing I'm working on inking of Bayonetta and her rival, Jeanne. On 11x17 Bristol so inking is coming along slowly by surely. Eventually will paint it and keep the B&W&Red motif.

The B.P.R.D Agents

2010-09-27T16:22:00.000-07:00

Finally finished this Hellboy pieces I've been tweaking for a while. I liked how the lineart came out so I decided to shade it. I'll have this as a print available at NYCC!

Non Stop until NYCC

2010-09-24T21:16:00.000-07:00

I've been drawing up a storm in the past while preparing for the upcoming NYCC, but I haven't had much to post here. I did manage to push out a Barbara Gordon maker drawing that I'll have on sale. I really like how the pin-up pose came out.

Practicing old Dudes.

2010-09-12T00:29:00.000-07:00

Sketches and rough character designs for a bar scene in Indigo. Everything else I've been drawing lately is related to the comic and I can't show it yet, but it's coming out great! Guy in the lower right corner done by Ais. I had lots of help from him with wrinkles and age lines.

Puppeteer

2010-08-27T23:01:00.000-07:00

Some Indigo images I have to upload. The first is a painting I finished up tonight and the second is just a small doodle from a few months back of Indigo sipping on some tea.

Concepts

2010-08-24T18:57:00.000-07:00

Realized I never posted these concepts I did a few months ago. Some copic sketches of my game character Katze, and my comic character Indigo.

They call me, Mr. Riggs

2010-08-24T00:16:00.000-07:00

Not too much to upload for now. I just got back from Wizard World Chicago and haven't had the chance to draw for awhile. I did get to meet a ton of really awesome artists and get really inspired. I picked up some sweet copics at the show as well, so I can't wait to draw more with them in the near future.

The Baroness is Back bitches

2010-08-02T23:23:00.000-07:00

Sketch of the Baroness from G.I. Joe. One of my all time favorite characters, I'm just a sucker for Badass beauties with glasses. Done in between work on cardstock with copics.

Terry Mcginnis

2010-07-13T16:41:00.000-07:00

Minus the royally screwed up hand, some more painting practice from today. Done while watching Batman Beyond, it's my favorite series don't shoot me!

The opening is still one the greatest and most stylish animated openings of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlobFExM-UM

Pin Up Practice

2010-07-09T10:29:00.000-07:00

I decided to work on a Doronjo piece while watching the Evo streams this morning. Practicing my painting/rendering skills.

Stand up and RIOT!

2010-07-08T23:02:00.000-07:00

Trying to get a fresh start with this sketchblogging business. My former one wasn't updated so readily:
http://piniongame.wordpress.com/

Hello, I'm Ashley Riot, and I want to be an artist.