Leia Haglund Illustration

Processes

  • Waiting – Process

    Waiting – Process

    I wanted to make an illustration depicting a contemporary subject this time, since I made fantasy and historically inspired ones previously. Sketching I am currently reading Figure Drawing by Jake Spicer. In his book, Spicer mentions that blocking out the model with simple straight lines makes subsequent sketching a lot easier. I used this technique…

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  • The mercenary – Process

    The mercenary – Process

    I wanted to make an illustration of a lady warrior with a lot of pride and truly focus on her pose and character. Inspiration This piece was inspired by the outfits of the German mercenaries called Landsknecht that were prominent during the 15th century and forward. I wanted to make something bright and fun to…

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  • Changeling king’s warm welcome – Process

    Changeling king’s warm welcome – Process

    I started this illustration with lots of thoughts of where to improve my process; Ideas of new constrictions and a lot of wisdom from reflections I have made after abandoning certain illustrations. With this in mind I want to preface this by saying that I am still experimenting with what works for me, as every…

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  • Waiting for the bus – Process

    Waiting for the bus – Process

    I had a lot of troubles finishing this piece for some reason. I had the concept nailed down, but each part of the process came with challenges that I didn’t expect. I’ll discuss these as I show the process of this illustration. What you’ll notice is that I cropped the final illustration, because I thought…

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  • Shallow waters process

    Shallow waters process

    The process of this illustration was quite straight forward. I didn’t need to do any research and could just dive into the process itself. As always, I first sketched a few primary thumbnails and chose the one I prefered. After that I made a preliminary sketch (Which changed quite a bit once I did the…

  • The guard – process

    The guard – process

    My rough sketch shows a half-elf with long flowy hair in a side view. Considering the scene is inside and he is supposed to be wandering the setting as a guard I wanted him to wear lighter armor that would be able to take blunt hits that gives him enough endurance to move about for…

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