Alex Ledante

@ledante (1086)

Taipei, Taiwan

Joined myLot 6 years ago

Alex Ledante was born in Taibei but banished to the states for a crime he did not commit. He is now a freelance illustrator, utilizing both 2D & 3D apps

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A Certain Sense of Liberty

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 9 Dec 18

More fun with origami. I told you I've done a lot of these things, but this one was the first. Like @iridion9, I have also lifted my title from New Order lyrics...

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Attention - WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 8 Dec 18

Just some cadet saluting for no particular reason. I expect they spend most of their time saluting, but I have no actual basis for that assumption Perhaps I will have her standing in front of a giant robot...

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Heavy Rain omake

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 7 Dec 18

Origami is deeply significant in my personal mythos, and so features prominently in my artwork Once I read a book on philosophy, which suggested that we are born "Tabula Rasa", a blank sheet of paper. As we begin to experience...

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the battle continues for Net Neutrality

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 6 Dec 18

If you live in the states and have been following the battle for Net Neutrality, then you know that ISP lackey Ajit Pai repealed Net Neutrality last year and has been under attack ever since. Many states instituted their own...

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tone study for White Russian

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 5 Dec 18

Since it is winter, I tend to do soviets in snow. I don't know why I do this, but that well never runs dry for me. I think it has something to do with those cool Russian hats... I like my work to have strong rimlighting and this...

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study for a chibi cthulhu

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 4 Dec 18

Chibi is a Japanese word that doesn't translate well into English. It literally means small or tiny, but the more important connotation is cute or adorable. You might understand it better if I said that a puppy is a chibi version...

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Kokoshnik

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 3 Dec 18

Once again, I'm experimenting with Russian headdresses. They're just so much fun... This one has plenty of lost edges, as she emerges from the background http://www.mylot.com/post/3230367/girl-with-an-ornate-headdress-wip

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study for a background

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 2 Dec 18

Sometimes I am experimenting technique and I will just create a background without even considering what might be in the foreground. This is one of those times... I was thinking about the ruins of Angkor Wat

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Where all the Lovecraft fans at?

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 1 Dec 18

I've been a huge Lovecraft fan since High School, his work and mythos related stories have influenced my work ever since. My favorite thing about Cthulhu is that I never have to draw him the same way twice Do we have any other...

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Offline

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 28 Nov 18

My production system committed seppuku, so I need to fix that before I do anything else. It will be business as usual when I get it back online but until then you won't be seeing much of me. Nothing personal...

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girl wearing a turban - WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 24 Nov 18

When I was a child, I used to love reading 1001 Arabian Nights. Then the Harryhausen Sinbad films just etched that into my imagination, so my earliest ideas of exotic are centered around asia minor

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Belly Dancer - WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 23 Nov 18

Sort of a rough sketch of a belly dancer. The background is a placeholder but she will most likely be in the background of another piece, as opposed to being the subject of a stand-alone work

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Manga WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 22 Nov 18

Interesting color choices here, almost looks cel shaded. I am concerned that the darks are too uniformly dark and all blend together, but otherwise it has a lot going for it..

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Devolution - WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 21 Nov 18

Recently I posted an alternate version of this piece, which I felt was a little too dark. This version has an additional light source and a different camera angle, what do you think now? By way of comparison, here is a link to...

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Girl with an Ornate Headdress - WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 20 Nov 18

This is mostly indicative of me putting strange hats on girls, which is something that I like to do but I can't really verbalize why I feel the need to do it. I don't like tiny hats, but ginormous ones are fun...

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Descent - WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 19 Nov 18

I wanted to do a gothic girl at the bottom of some stairs. This isn't done yet, still a work in progress but it seems like I've caught most of the idea already...

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Moody Girl - WIP

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 16 Nov 18

Who can say what she's brooding about? This was a study to see if I could capture the look of a girl who is pouting without being too overt about it

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White Russian

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 13 Nov 18

I tend to take things literally; so while listening to Marillion's White Russian, my imagination conjured a pale Soviet. Not only is she engulfed in a blizzard but also by her protection from the elements, symbolizing how easily...

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big brother is watching

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 12 Nov 18

I rarely get political in my work, but I couldn't stop thinking about how important net neutrality is and how big brother might be showing up a few decades late if our ISPs became content aware. Such a blatant violation of our...

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Study for a Pictish Warrior

Alex Ledante @ledante (1086) • Taipei, Taiwan 11 Nov 18

Back in the Hyborean Age, the Cimmerians had a sworn foe to the south- the Picts! So here I have done a very manga style Pictish warrior...

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