What are Mentorships?
Mentorships are a new program I am offering here on Patreon. They are a chance for you to receive personalized one-on-one coaching and guidance to help you build a stronger, more marketable portfolio, and help you find and take the next steps in your career as an illustrator...
2019-02-01 20:03:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This Month's Classic Fantasy Illustration is the "Fire Dragon" is an 8"x10" Original Oil painting made for www.everydayoriginal.com. It goes on sale February 19.
I also have a little process layout for you here as well! 2019-01-29 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here he is in all his Frankensteinish glory! Working on this one was perhaps the most fun I have had working on these little monsters so far. There was just so much interesting texture and lighting to play with on this guy.
Thanks for all your support everyone! Having you guys here has been a big motivator ...
2019-01-28 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out this amazing 3D model of the Sluglord by Patrick Danneker! For those of you who joined recently, the Sluglord was our very first Monster of the Month here on my Patreon. Patrick has been working on this for a little while now and recently finished it up. I am just so ...
2019-01-25 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We're doing a bonus monster this month! I've been saving this guy for a while and really looking forward to working on him. He's got a lot of different textures that we'll be tackling: dented copper, leather, skin, glass, steel, all kinds of good stuff. I'm looking forward to the challenge!
2019-01-23 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we've got a lot of textural brushes for painting frog skin! (Now if only our subject had skin...) The brushes did turn out very useful for making the texture for the bones and armor of the Skelefrog. <...
2019-01-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Vile Trickery!
This will be a monthly series of tips, techniques, and best practices that I have picked up over the years and will be sharing with you here. I have a notepad of several hundred of these that I plan to share... so let's get started!
For the first month I bring you:&nb...
2019-01-16 17:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Classic Fantasy Illustration for January will feature some burning, some destruction, and some chaos! But it will primarily be featuring a fire dragon enjoying the subtle ambiance of a city in flames.
This drawing is for a traditional painting I will be doing this month for Ev...
2019-01-14 20:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostThank you to everybody for voting in our 2019 Goals poll!
The results are in and Written Tutorials was the clear favorite, taking the #1 spot by a wide margin. #2 was a tie b...
2019-01-10 15:13:10 +0000 UTC View Post
As you can see, he ended up a little different than the drawing. I decided to add a few details as the rendering progressed that I think helped it overall.
The problem I had was that the overall shape of the figure just felt a little bland at first. I settled on the problem being the helmet shape because it just f...
2019-01-08 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI need your help! We reached our $250 goal, and now you will start to see tips and tricks posts each month. Now it's time to decide what to add next!
I have some ideas that I want to do, but I can only do a few at a time as we continue to grow. So I want your feedback to find out...
2019-01-07 20:12:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's re-animated monster is a foot soldier of a once proud race of pond warriors. High melee attack, weak to magic, usually encountered in watery dungeons...
The original drawing is 5" x 5" inches, and was drawn on Canson Multi-media paper in graphite.
2019-01-04 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This year we are evolving into our second form!
Starting this month you may notice some changes around here! There will be new tiers, new additions to existing tiers, new goals and a few visual upgrades.
So what's new? First, for simplicity sake, the Hi-res Draw...
2019-01-02 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas! And thank you all for the amazing support this year!
Also, I hope you have been good this year. I thought I was pretty good this year myself, I didn't kill or rob anyone, (that I could recall...) but then I got this letter from Santa's Naughty Department. (Weird department name by...
2018-12-25 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a Crocodile Santa for you! Hope you all are surviving the Holiday madness!
2018-12-24 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the finish version of the St. George painting! It has been great getting back into some classic fantasy. I've got a lot of fun stuff planned for next month. I'll likely be doing another from the St. George series next month to keep finishing out work for my 2018 Sketchbook (which as usual, is not going to get made unt...
2018-12-20 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Holidays All! This month I am launching a new brush set, The 2018 Dragon Brush Set and I am sharing a free demo with my Patreon subs before I officially launch it!
The Complete se...
2018-12-18 19:15:21 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's Classic Fantasy Illustration I am going to be going back to the St. George legend for inspiration. In my early work I always depicted him on foot, because let's be honest, horses are scary to draw.
I will be doing a few more St. George pieces in the coming year to explore other pa...
2018-12-17 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's video animatic I've uploaded an actual video instead of a GIF. Hopefully this will give us more accurate colors and smoother frames. Please let me know if it looks weird or doesn't play!
The monthly brush sets have been uploaded as well! You can access yours here:
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2018-12-15 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised! The backstory for the Wandering Jinglethorpe:
All Frost Giants are violent and dangerous. They are territorial, hunt in small parties, and live in small family groups or clans. The Jinglethorpe Giants however, are a quite peculiar subspecies of these ancient denizens of the high mountains. While re...
2018-12-14 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Initial layers of Multiply and Color laid in! All transparent Photoshop layers up to this point. No normal, screen or other opaque modes yet, only Multiply and Color. Today I'll be digging into soft light and screen layers!
2018-12-10 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So we have gone with "the Wandering Jinglethorp" for December's Monster of the Month! (And we'll be saving the Pygmy Yeti for a later post!)
Recently, I've been reading up on Latin naming, and realized that I've been doing it wrong with the last few monsters. The names, like the creatures, are of course...
2018-12-07 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Bonus Hi-Res for December!
"The Battle for Moria: Dain v Azog"
by Justin Gerard
2018
Photoshop color over traditional graphite under drawing.
Inspired by JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion.
2018-12-04 18:11:13 +0000 UTC View Post
As a reward for being a member of the Monster-of-the-Month Club, you now have access to special discounts on PHOTOSHOP BRUSH...
2018-12-02 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This month I am pleased to announce that we are officially opening a secret store exclusively for Monster of the Month subs. This will offer a number of new benefits for the 10$ tier.
First, members wil...
2018-12-02 05:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Quick post today to share a drawing saluting Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Spongebob. His characters were a big part of my life (and I imagine all of our lives). Spongebob was the first show that Annie and I bonded over when we started dating, (we were both re-watching the first few seasons at the time) so it has a specia...
2018-11-29 19:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostToday I am adding a new ongoing benefit to the Monster of the Month Tier! Patrons of this tier will now receive a discount code that will get them 50% off all of my Photoshop brushes in the Gallery Gerard store.
At the checkout, enter the code:
SLUGLORD
You can check them out her...
2018-11-26 15:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Bonus watercolor this month!
I recently finished a watercolor and ink commission that I wanted to share with everybody here. It was painted on Fabriano Hot Press and most of the work for it was completed last week at the One Fantastic Weekend Workshop in Nashv...
2018-11-25 18:59:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's process GIF didn't turn out as sharp as previous months. The darks in this one got kind of wonky when the Photoshop GIF machine converted it to 256 colors. I really like using GIFs to share the process for these because they are so easy to make from my Photoshop layers, but if this happens again next month I will pr...
2018-11-22 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
