http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/ Emerlee's Portfolio on Artician en-us Copyright 2009, Artician LLC Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:20:46 -0500 Artician http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.artician.com/images/default/feed.jpg http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Contrasted-colour/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Contrasted-colour/ Thu, 28 May 2009 15:29:43 -0400 Contrasted colour A mock-vector image made in Adobe Photoshop. Underneath the shape layer was a photo with contrast set to maximum. I had a hand-drawn sketch as a guide for the many touch-ups on the hair.]]> colour, photo manipulation, levels, contrast, mischievous, cheeky nonadult Image/Digital Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Noelle-in-a-cave/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Noelle-in-a-cave/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:42:02 -0400 Noelle in a cave Image to be cropped down to a comic cover.
The character is from my Webcomic, Corner Alley 13.]]> modern fantasy, corner alley 13, speology, spelunking, lake, stalactites, underdark, elf, cave nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Panda/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Panda/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:29:08 -0500 Panda I did this a while back, but I was quite pleased with the result. (This one is unrelated to the comic theme).]]> nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Folkdress-4/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Folkdress-4/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:28:44 -0500 Folkdress 4 This is from a school project on modern takes of tradition folk clothes. Don't bother with the full size, it's huge (because I had it printed).]]> nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/A-vampires-qualms/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/A-vampires-qualms/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:28:01 -0500 A vampire's qualms If you haven't noticed yet, this is supposed to be funny.

The idea is derived from (I can't say inspired by, because my contribution was not all that great) a comment made by Jazhara7 in my Webcomic website's shoutbox: "Maybe the vampire likes his food kosher, no wait, that wouldn't work".
I have their permission to display this image.]]> cartoon, humor, gag, kosher, vampire nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Calais-and-Zetes/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Calais-and-Zetes/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:27:09 -0500 Calais and Zetes These are the twins Calais and Zetes from Greek mythology. They inherited their wings from their father Boreas, the North wind. Although they were among the heroes searching for the Golden Fleece I haven't been able to find much information about them. I suppose it is partly because they disappeared before the quest was completed. When the heroes were making a quick stop at one of the local king's dinner table they were attacked by a flock of harpies. The winged brothers pursued them. Neither the harpies nor they were ever seen again.

Media: Ink on paper, coloured in Photoshop]]> twins, harpy, wings, angel, mythology, greek, zetes, calais nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Cover-for-Selma-comic/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Cover-for-Selma-comic/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:26:55 -0500 Cover for Selma comic This is the cover for a comic about Selma Lagerlf which I illustrated. Selma Lagerlf was a famous Swedish author who had an eventful childhood and went on to become the first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The script was written by Maria Bergstrm and the comic was printed by Kulturpoolen.

English version: ISBN:9789197752220
German version: ISBN:9789197752213
Swedish version: ISBN:9789197752206]]> biography, history, author, peacock, mårbacka, cover, comic, lagerlöf, selma nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Highlight/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Highlight/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:26:09 -0500 Highlight Doing the highlights in hair is my favourite part of colouring a picture, so this time I left it at only highlights and removed as much other information as possible.

Media: Original Sketch on paper, mock vectorized in Adobe Photoshop]]> 1800, cameo, manga, medallion, portrait, hair highlights, profile, b&w nonadult Image/Digital Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/The-Matriarch-and-Drel/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/The-Matriarch-and-Drel/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:25:26 -0500 The Matriarch and Drel These two are characters from my Webcomic, Corner Alley 13.

Media: Ink on paper, coloured in Adobe Photoshop]]> d&d, lifting, drow, matriarch, drel, corner alley 13, underdark nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/A-cat-in-Venice/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/A-cat-in-Venice/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:25:14 -0500 A cat in Venice The cat is my own design, but inspired by Martin Toonder's work. The background is based on a photo of Venice by Carlo Ponti.

Media: scraperboard]]> b&w, scraperboard, architecture, tom puss, toonder, cat, venice nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Olympian-family-tree-v2/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Olympian-family-tree-v2/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:24:13 -0500 Olympian family tree v.2 A touched up version of my visualizarion of the Olympians' complicated family tree.
Please note that the ancestry of many of these is ambiguous, for instance some say Aphrodite was born out of the sea. Greece is a country of islands, and sometimes different versions of the same story vary between the islands. As with all myth, it was originally kept alive by oral re-tellings only, with no version being more official than another. I have endeavoured to find reliable written sources, but even in these there are disparities.

My principal sources have been, in descending order of magnitude;
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Relevant works of Roger Llancelyn-Green
Pantheon.org]]> heritage, hera, athena, zeus, greek gods, olympus, olympian, family tree, mythology nonadult Image/Digital Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Cole-or-Khohl/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Cole-or-Khohl/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:23:58 -0500 Cole or Kh'ohl A character from my Webcomic. This piece started out as an experiment with digital inking but the colours came to grab all attention.

Still struggling with realistic fire. I may edit this piece later.

Media: pencil sketch on paper, digitally inked and coloured in Adobe Photoshop.]]> corner alley 13, cole, fireball, mage, drow, magician, fire nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Super-Scary-Monster-1/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Super-Scary-Monster-1/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:23:49 -0500 Super Scary Monster 1 We were asked to draw monsters for a school assignment. I never draw monsters so this was difficult for me. I sat down and tried to design a horrific monstrosity, but the more I sketched the more I felt that small, slimey things are often more frightening then big things. Things that you can't see - but you still know that they are there hiding at the bottom of the lake ready to pounce and bite your toes.]]> nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Super-Scary-Monster-2/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Super-Scary-Monster-2/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:23:32 -0500 Super Scary Monster 2 This time I felt I should take the horror theme seriously and do something that could really cause nightmares. I don't know if it turned out quite that scary, but it's better than my previous attempt.]]> nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Indy-Olympics/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Indy-Olympics/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:23:18 -0500 Indy Olympics Athletes are amazing in many ways, one being that they can put up with all the interviewers.

I didn't mean to do this experimental clean style colouring, but it just so happened that my regular computer (with the wacom) doesn't work. So this is my lazy version of colouring, using only the magic wand an fill tool.]]> nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/X-men-parody/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/X-men-parody/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:23:12 -0500 X-men parody This won't make sense unless you've seen the X-men 3 movie. If you haven't seen the movie yet but want to, then avert your eyes quickly from the following! Throughout the last battle I kept thinking that Rogue would jump out from behind Phoenix and stop her. Considering the destruction she was causing this would probably have been impossible though. Still, I couldn't help being disappointed at Rogue's choice. My brother and I discussed alternatives and came up with this. Admittedly, it has some flaws.

The characters in this comic are copyrighted to Marvel.]]> cure, bobby, rogue, parody, fanart, fancomic, marvel, x-men nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Detective-Conan-Parody/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/Detective-Conan-Parody/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:23:03 -0500 Detective Conan Parody I can have such a bad sense of humour some times.

This comic will not make sense unless you have read the Detective Conan manga. If you haven't, then you should! It is truly great. One thing that annoys me about this series however is when there are codes to solve and as a reader you sit for hours trying to figure it out only to find that it is impossible unless you know Japanese.

Conan, and all other characters are copyrighted to their creator Gosho Aoyama.]]> murder mystery, manga, doujinshi, fanart, conan, detective nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/What-Drow-ought-to-look-like/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/What-Drow-ought-to-look-like/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:22:56 -0500 What Drow ought to look like To my mind, it would be logical if the Drow were all albino, as many cave-dwelling creatures are. In my comic Corner Alley 13 ( <a href=""></a>]]> nonadult Image/Digital Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/HunterxHunter-Parody/ http://emilyryan.artician.com/portfolio/HunterxHunter-Parody/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:22:50 -0500 HunterxHunter Parody Fanart/parody comic of the manga HunterxHunter. Characters are copyrighted their creator Yoshihiro Togashi.]]> parental, hunter, fancomic, doujinshi, parody, gon, hunterxhunter nonadult Image/Traditional Art Emerlee http://uc.artician.com/members/0/3/3762/avatar.jpg Copyright 2009 Emerlee