JJ Leigh

The Artwork and Thoughts of Josh Leigh

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This is an old one I did as a weekly challenge a few years back. The theme was movies. Go figure. There’s 50 movie references in the picture. Can you find them all?

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Found my old illustration sketchbook from 2010. Seems like my influences haven’t changed much.

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It’s amazing what redoing a crappy drawing 2 weeks later can do.

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A Birthing announcement I did for my wife and I.

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Hey, it’s Halloween! So I drew some of Marvel’s darker superheroes. Some of them even fight demons!

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In honor of Luke Cage coming out this weekend on Netflix, I thought I’d draw the Power Man himself. Along with the other Heroes for Hire and some street level heroes.

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The original Ninja Turtles show was never my Ninja Turtles. I grew up on the awesome 1990 movie. But regardless here’s a Rocksteady I did a few weeks ago. Maybe one day I’ll get around to doing Bebop as well. One day.

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While rummaging through some old things, I found an old flipbook I did. Now it’s probably not my first animation ever, but for whatever reason I decided to keep this for my future self to find. I can’t be certain how old I was when I made this but I’d wager 12-13 based on the blatant Dragonball Z and Xiao Xiao references.

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Some more from Spidey’s oh-so-huge rogue’s gallery.

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This week I watched the 1919 film Broken Blossoms. It was pretty good despite it’s simple plot and now controversial casting. I couldn’t get the villain out my head though. Battling Burrows the abusive father and boxer had such a distinctive look. Here’s a quick sketch I did of him today.

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Some quick sketches I did of family at my nephew’s first birthday party this weekend. Wasn’t really strong on likeness today.

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Had a chance to see Suicide Squad early this week. DC’s gotta get their act together. But Will Smith was a saving grace of the movie, and it was cool to see DC characters running around Toronto. Here’s a quick sketch I did today of Deadshot.

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Got a chance to sketch at our Bible study’s year end barbecue tonight. Wishing I had a better scanner though. 

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I’ve been really busy with work lately so I haven’t really had a lot of time to do some extra drawing. But I found some small gouache layout paintings I did last year under the tutelage of the great Peter Chan. If you don’t know Peter’s work, I highly recommend checking out his art at;

http://peterchanart.com/

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Here’s some Spidey villains for ya.

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Went a little Trek heavy in my sketching this week.

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A quick sketch I did while watching Daredevil this weekend. Basically Season 2 in a nutshell. Sort of.