The Azzura

Hand carved, tooled and sculpted leather. Painted by hand with acrylics. 100% original.

Paladin of the Griffon


See those sketches down there....?



I dragged them into photoshop and tried my hand at painting them there.

More Sketches




This one I am currently in the process of painting in photoshop

New Sketchbook








... needs filling :)

Gawd its been over a year? Time flies....

I spent most of last year as the Art Director for a very nice magazine, good steady money, but it apparently sucked every ounce of creativity out of me. I stopped working for them in February.... and have been having one hell of a time trying to get myself back together. Slowly my muse is coming back....

I've decided to try my hand at mask making. I've ordered the materials I will need to create some leather masks. I'll see how I do with this, and maybe evolve on to neoprene or plastic molded masks.... I'll see. The latter definitely seems much more complicated, thus why I am starting with leather.

I will post my progress.

More doodles.... ... dunno what she is... she just popped out.. I don't usually draw sci-fi, and she seems sci-fi to me.... might add more detail later.... but I'm such an ADD doodler.... I have to move on to the next page ;-)


This is my kitty not being a very good model.... usually she is as mobile as a slug... not when I'm trying to sketch her... noooo....

Sketches....





A couple from last night...

Bought an absolutely beautiful hand made leather bound sketchbook at Megacon this weekend. A bit small for my taste but I just couldnt resist its rustic medeival almost steam-punk look..



The skull was drawn using missmonsters steampunk skull as reference.. such an inspiring piece of art to me.Got some new colored brush pens yesterday.... decided to play with them.... color is such a struggle for me.

Trying to force myself to sketch every night now.

Another attempt in Painter...


....well Painter Essentials to be precise... got it for free with my Wacom... and I am currently too poor to buy the full program. But from what I understand the only difference is fewer brushes, an no brush customization... which is fine by me, baby steps. I don't need too much info all at once!

This one was inspired by a challenge on Gnomon Workshop.... "Personal Transport". Lots of people submitted robots and such... but I'm more of an organic kinda girl. And I love me some snails.

Not quite happy with it... particularly the background... but then that is something I've always struggled with, even with traditional mediums. I am really fighting to get the brushes to behave naturally.... but I guess it all just takes practice... and figuring out which works best for my style.

Oh.... also finally bought a mac. =) I am now officially part of the Mac cult.... keeping my good ol Frankenstein PC for my gaming tho... built her myself.... she's 7 years old now and I keep up on her so she is always pretty cutting edge for gaming machine. =)

Anyhooo.... more later!

"Finished" Hushpaw


I figure I'm probably not going to finish this piece, as I am incredibly distracted by faerie heads. I also want to join in an illustration challenge... so... there you have it!! I fixed a couple things that were bothering me, such as crooked eyes... and added a pretty craptastic background. Hey... I'm learning!