Between Two Turrets - Chat with IronStylus on 6/17!

Riot·6/16/2015, 12:23:04 AM·7 votes·15,095 views

Introducing Between Two Turrets, a new Q&A series from the NA Community team in which we’ll connect you with various Rioters to chat about League, life, and…other things that start with ‘L.’ You can expect an installment every couple weeks or so, with Rioters from all over jumping in to spend some time with you on the boards.

First up, we’ve got concept artist (and lover of all things parrot) IronStylus - come chat with him on the boards June 17 starting at 1 PM PST!

106 Comments

Praetor Don6/16/2015, 9:15:36 PM16 votes

"and other things that start with an 'L'" Lore :D

Rhalasong6/17/2015, 5:13:21 AM7 votes

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Now I'm not alluding to the Lusterless idea that I'm Lethally Livid or Anything, I'm actually more on the side Lethargic really, but a dragon-Loving Lady Like me yearns for the Laudable Level of Loveliness in the Lightning Lizard that is Ao shin. As it stands, I'll Leave you with that Last thought and Leave, Lest I Lose my normally Level tember and Lash out by Limitlessly Lavishing a Lot more Time on this Lovely Topic than even it's Luck has Earned.

OfficerVakarian6/16/2015, 9:14:50 PM7 votes

OH MY GOD YES PARROT SENPAI NOTICE ME

SomethingUnknown6/16/2015, 9:35:08 PM6 votes

If you could be any animal, what type of parrot would you be?

patuitar6/16/2015, 9:17:44 PM4 votes

Who is IronStylus?

SlyFireShark6/16/2015, 9:37:53 PM4 votes

You just have to love that Riot actually cares about there community's thoughts and wants to be involved with there players. Always nice to see rito doing stuff with the community.

Pÿrö6/16/2015, 11:20:23 PM4 votes

When is the League of Legends movie coming out?

Playedstation6/17/2015, 7:35:05 PM3 votes

Any chance of Diana getting a new skin in the near future? Blood Moon Goddess Diana?

Tryhard Mittens6/16/2015, 9:21:49 PM3 votes

Is this going to be like 'Between Two Ferns' where we just troll him the whole time?

LongHair Fox6/16/2015, 11:53:37 PM2 votes

Please do tell me "Lunar champions" counts as a topic in this Q&A

Momobami Kirari6/17/2015, 2:13:46 PM2 votes

Anivia Zac LeeSin

Embertine6/17/2015, 3:40:10 PM2 votes

Hey Ironstylus. Leona is my second favorite champion and by far my go-to for support laning. Without her, I can honestly say my experience playing league starting back in mid season 2, and up to now, would be completely and utterly different.

So what I want to know is, what do you think would be the future for Leona? How do you see her evolving in LOL as time goes on and where do you think she will end up? How do you imagine her lore expanding in the future? Please do not give anything away yet if it has changed in any way! Simply share your thoughts on how you see her standing in the world of Runeterra and where you imagine her to be in the future. Do you think she will get any cool new skins in the future? Again don't spoil anything, a simple yes or now will do. Something like a "Super Nova" skin would be excellent for her. Where her abilities would look super charged, and she would have some cool golden armor. Okay enough about skins lol. I don't want to be the guy who pesters Riot all day about skins.

I guess the last thing I have to say really is this. If you really did base Leona/s looks off of your wife, well then you are one lucky man.

FuryofThornsRedo7/21/2015, 7:55:55 PM1 votes

As much as I took the time to consider involving myself in "Between Two Turrets" discussion you were involved in I did not.

I value all of your time in the valuable craftsmanship relationship with Diana , while also reading you attend to other female Champions. I am beyond owning the capacity to design sentences any further in reference to the artistic relationship involved to help embrace the final presentations of the Champions you coordinate Teamwork and Time towards.

This is off your subject, and I will call myself out for this. I know of no other way to learn if I was wrong with my conscience or not for speaking the analysis of the actions I witnessed in reading a comment reply thread inside of another discussion with some other Riot people.

Specifically, because I know you allowed yourself to be known as a Human Being surviving from a line of classified mental illness, Truly the tears were there that day as I try to hold them back today while typing this to you. This discussion of thoughts is closer to me than you might first read. I continue to be hesitant to share what HiPAA Rights protect. Though in another board discussion I created I mentioned how I was a victim of therapy counseling. More of anything I could share was to live as close to my grandmother portrayed to me when growing up. She was not only a special education teacher, but helped to make sure North Shore Special Education District and North Shore Special Recreation Association were established and maintained from some of her efforts while she was alive for the portion of her life I was allowed to live in and near for that period of time.

Due to the fact that I wanted to be more of a family mediator and an advocate for my peers {whether we will ever be friends or never be friends}; witnessing the social bullying some of them had to endure in school in the 70's, 80's, and 90's pained me too much far in the depths of my core lacking empathy to stand and fight on their team. So, after college and obtaining my Bachelor's of Science in Speech Communication with a Minor in Health Education I owned a fast stream of thoughts intrapersonally to the corner of my hometown childhood house location and will never forget the ancestors of elders in my life side-barring a counsel advisement where my instincts were told to not allow the people to label of judge me medically. Since I know of those military veterans {World War II = Blood/ and World War I = More than close family friend} the family conflict and being only homeless at the time was where the mental illness state facility coordinated in pruning new growths for new clients for their pools of nourishing more Rx clients into states of medically forced fed addictions. {Nope, refuse to believe any symptom is a life long infliction} )in most cases, and happy to be a part of the movement in Illinois where Illinois believes people are human beings and can recover from a mental illness}

I am close to where you are there in the medical terms. As for the Artwork, far from you REALM of expertise. I spend some time with watercolors because I believe I can own the skill in almost making artwork look as the value appearance I search for. In one of my first pieces, the perception in my mind changed. Usually, I am in a two-dimensional perception glance with my mind and eyes teamwork. Then when taking the time to envision myself as a bird on the outside of my presence as a human being artist trying to paint a water color art piece, the perception allowed depth to exist inside of my sight. Nope! 20:20 vision. Thinking more with the head injury concussion before second grade would be why there is not only the learning disability I had to grow with in some subjects in school, but also with my artwork.

As for the victim of counseling and being homeless, well going of a 15 year as homeless, and owning more than a dozen mental illness medical hospital scars; no, the truth is obstructed from the medical staff of claimed experts which {if you can tell me when I am going to throw up or when my next headache is then maybe there could be a line of expertise, but until then medical doctors are only expert reguritators}; continues to undermine my validity in a court of law. I have been told my assessments are maybe borderline, and most of the initial history were conclusions of my presence of a human being then as a Victim of family violence. I could Best Book court book Oath connect a quote, but I do not want to get caught for Quote preaching. As for those social workers trying to claim they are ending homelessness, no, they are the expert enablers in making sure they have homeless people for their next season and ensuring they continue to own a job as a social worker helping the homeless. Since I boycott Lake County, I attend McHenry County PADS. No, across illinois PADS appears to fall in their mission statements when they state they are there to help end homelessness one: women, child, man and person at a time. But, when they make sure their homeless people are not without tents from one summer to the next, and then most definitely make sure the Church Staff volunteers have their support but more important to them is the homeless people they can continue to look down onto and also state in Church those more inferior to their level of existence, contradicts the clean communication process ethical Facility code of conduct hygiene I continue to battle on a daily basis. Try to look for an apartment, but the level of homelessness is already frowned upon and judged. So, build out from where society dictates to me in how I am suppose to function and live in their lives, No the Tenacious level of the Oak Tree and The Strength of the Rose Tree connected to my bloodline are those Experts Ancestors in my life, Both Jewish and Christian!

This first comment is more for the appreciation of the time you took to talk and chat with those people who decided to share. Please excuse my length in what I have shared. I know one is your while the other is not, but the partnership of the Champion Art helps me to self-counsel and cope. Have already stated to another Riot in an earlier comment reply of mine: I game at Networx Gaming in Crystal Lake Illinois/ McHenry County Illinois (more inside of the illinois homeless season of October 1st through to April 30th), and board at public libraries. Without Riot and the time I spend in their League of Legends online video game I am not too sure of how my self-designing levels of inspiration would be at a more lower quality of artwork exposure, as in the art time when spending time confined inside of an adult psychiatric unit. My artwork is far from the art I game with.

Thank you for your time! If you could help me to review my conscience, or help me to call myself out from a comment inside of another subject discussion, your help would be appreciated. Need not a lot, but maybe to be told I was wrong. However, with empathy and the 5 steps of empathy, there concludes to be Truth in All Perspectives! "I/Truth will be heard Diana!" and "The stars will heal me Soraka !"

Thank You! From: FuryofThornsRedo item 3751 item 3105 "Follow No False LIGHT!"

Teslablade6/17/2015, 12:19:46 AM1 votes

Also, can we get a samurai Ekko skin?

Totalwanabe6/17/2015, 4:08:39 PM1 votes

wonder who will get the terminator skin since we got jurassic world release

Emotes Only6/17/2015, 4:58:17 PM1 votes

Will there be riddles? :D

Solari Fortune6/17/2015, 5:35:47 PM1 votes

Will there be any other champs from Targon? We only got 3 (Leona, Panth, and Diana.) Other places have a broad selection of champs to choose from but Targon is very few.

WarWork6/17/2015, 7:09:13 PM1 votes

i hope i'm not too late, but can u geive any update on poppy, warwick and yorick updates

Raxistaicho6/17/2015, 8:02:51 PM1 votes

Do we post the questions here?

NemeBro6/17/2015, 8:09:58 PM1 votes

Is Diana in lesbians with Leona?

Raxistaicho6/17/2015, 8:12:06 PM1 votes

Well, assuming we ask here, I've got two questions:

  1. Can you tell us about any champion projects you might be working on at the moment?

  2. Is there any chance for another female tank (We've only got Leona and Sejuani as far as true tanks are concerned) in the near future?

Panda Protector6/17/2015, 8:15:53 PM1 votes

More leo skins pls?

Burn Hazard6/17/2015, 8:39:05 PM1 votes

I have a question- In terms of your previous statements about Riot wanting to expand the diversity of the body types presented, have you given any thoughts on continuing that trend? I'm okay with not seeing any barbie dolls for a while, but what about more voluptuous figures? Or even somewhat plump ones? What about muscular amazons? Diversity doesn't just mean lanky stick figures.

KronosCifer6/17/2015, 8:52:39 PM1 votes

Hey Stylus! Told you I'd bombard you with questions, but one at a time... or maybe two. :]

First off I'd like to know what got you into drawing and what made you become a concept artist. Just curious. c:

I'd also like to know what your day looks like at work, what do you do there regularly, what's the process behind concepting a skin or champion and how many are involved in the actual concept?