The Art of Alyssa Spector

Illustration, Comics, Storyboards & More

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Excited to finally share this! I had the honor of creating the New York Jets Gameday Poster for this Sunday’s home game! I had a lot of fun working on this, especially since the game falls on Halloween.🎃🏈✈️🍂

If you have the NY Jets app, you can download this poster as a wallpaper for your phone📱 http://nyjets.com/posters

A big thank you to the New York Jets and Jose Rey for the fantastic opportunity!

Happy Halloween and J-E-T-S, Jets!, Jets!, Jets!

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Dread Queen Persephone 👑🌹✨

A tribute to one of my favorite comic reads at the moment, “Lore Olympus” by Rachel Smythe.

All Hail the Queen of the Underworld! ✨

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Three Knight Moon 🌕🌌

I’ve had this silly idea in my head for awhile. Glad to finally get it out! 😂

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“I’m thinking Miku, Miku, oo-ee-oo”🎵

I felt inspired to draw Miku from listening to Anamanaguchi’s “Miku”✨

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“The North Remembers” 👑❄🐺

A tribute to one of my favorite characters in Game of Thrones, Jon Snow!

Who else is enjoying the new season so far?

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Masked Prejudice - A Superhero Anthology for Social Justice

A narrative superhero universe illustrating discrimination, bigotry, and social injustice.

Hey everybody! I’m very excited to announce that I am part of “Masked Prejudice” - A Superhero Anthology for Social Justice.

I’m so honored to be alongside so many other talented artists and writers on this book.

Please feel free to donate to our Kickstarter campaign and/or spread the word so we can get this thing funded!

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Storyboards -

Throwback Thursday: “Rally Tolara”: Pilot Storyboards.

Almost 3 years ago, I was hired to board the entire pilot of an animated series that was being pitched to Nickelodeon. Before taking on this project, I had absolutely no storyboarding experience! Well… except for a few assignments while I was at The Kubert School.

However, I couldn’t pass on this opportunity. I already had a comic book background, so I felt it couldn’t be that difficult to try my hand at storyboarding. While comics and storyboards are similar, I was aware that they’re fundamentally different beasts, so I buckled down and studied up on what goes into a storyboard.

I studied the storyboards for several animated series, including Steven Universe and Gravity Falls. I learned the terminology for camera angles, movements and transitions. I even took some online classes on the fundamentals of storyboarding.

Unfortunately, I also had a full-time job at the time, so it took around 10 months to fully finish boarding the entire pilot. I ended up drawing over 330 boards, which were 2 panels per board!! But by the time the pilot was finished, things had fallen through…

Although the series wasn’t picked up, I had gained a newfound love for storyboarding. I had always loved animation and had wanted to be involved in animation production in some way, but I was not an animator. However, perhaps I could be a storyboard artist.

Since then, I have done a few freelance storyboarding gigs and worked on improving my storyboarding portfolio. I had even taken a Digital Storyboarding class at the School of Visual Arts to improve at storytelling for animation and learn how to use Toon Boom Storyboard Pro. While my storyboard portfolio still has room for improvement, I hope to improve enough to storyboard for the animation industry one day.

Mikhail Schuyler, the creator of this series, has given me permission to post the storyboards.

I uploaded the first half of the boards on my site as the second half is not as clean as I would like them to be.

Looking back on these boards now, they could use some revisions. I should’ve added additional panels to some scenes to portray action, but you can blame that on thinking more like a comic book artist instead of a storyboard artist at the time… Maybe one day, I’ll go back and make some improvements.

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I can finally show off what I had been working on the past couple of months! I was given the opportunity to produce a set of storyboards based on a lovely short story a client had written about a young girl and her vivid imagination. Its purpose is to inspire girls to be creative and unique. :)

I’ve been very interested in storyboarding lately, so this was an exciting project to do!

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Here is a Spidey wraparound sketch cover I did sometime last year and forgot to post here.

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Throwback Thursday to some of my favorite pieces I’ve ever done, The Seven Sinful Ladies!

These were done, I think… 8 years ago?  I was still at the Kubert School when these were made, so it was definitely way before I started posting on tumblr. Wow, how time flies… I’m still satisfied with how they came out even though it was one of the first few times I experimented with vector art. Gluttony was my favorite one to do :D

Since these ended up being pretty popular at conventions, I’ve decided to offer them as prints, stickers and more on my Society6 shop. Feel free to take a look if you’re interested! https://society6.com/lyssaspex

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Hey everybody, I just opened a Society6 shop! While I don’t have much up on there yet, please feel free to check out what I’m currently selling!💖

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Hope everyone had a very Happy Valentine’s Day!!💕

💖D.va

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She’s pretty as a daisy But look out man, she’s crazy She’ll really do you in If you let her get under your skin

Poison Ivy!! I always have fun drawing her~

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Another sketch of my character. I’ve decided her name will be Keara.

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A quick Catwoman

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A tribute to two of my most played characters in Overwatch: Junkrat and D.Va!

This was a fun little experimentation in coloring and lighting~

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A quick sketch of an old original character. I hope to tell her story one day.