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August Roadmap and LETSDRAWMONSTERS Returns!

#LETSDRAWMONSTERS SEASON 2.  

We are BACK! New schedule, more streams, more traditional art, and more monsters. COME JOIN US! 

Here's the details:

WHAT:

LETSDRAWMONSTERS is a community event where I provide a prompt for a newly discovere...

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Sketchbook Pages for Cichlidian Scavengers and Scorpidile Marauders

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This month for the Martian of the Month I have a couple of new pages of a raider faction made up of scavengers and marauding pirates. These opportunistic hunters are designed with a blend of crocodiles, scorpio...

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"Dawn's Truce" Card for Magic

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Recently, several of my Magic the Gathering cards were released! I have secretly been working on the Bloomburrow project for Magic for almost a year now, and it has been KILLING me not to be able to share them. It has been such a great experience working on this one! So today, I'm going to start sharing ...

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July Roadmap and A Mid-Year Direction Shift

June brought about a number of truly unsettling developments in the art world, and like many other artists, I didn't feel like posting much throughout the month. I spent much of that time reconsidering my relationship with the technology that I have taken for granted as being a natural part of my career all this time. After t...

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Pencil Pests, Bounty Hunters and Terrible Betrayals

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Recently, I have had a bit of a crisis in regards to my digital work. For anyone who has missed it, Adobe has betrayed the art community by first launching its own AI art software, then changing its Terms of Service to allow it to train that AI art software off of its user's data without their c...

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A Hippo Hero, A Wizard, and a Manticore Step into a Bar.... Traditional Work for May 2024!

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This month I have 3 characters to share with you! The first is from the Monster of the Month series, and for the first time in the series, one painted traditionally.


The Hippo Hero started primarily...

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Martian Brush Set and Hi-Res Creature Layout

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Today I have a few creatures from our recent poll! The Barnacle Spike (#5) took first prize with 8 votes, and so is the first to get the color treatment. He felt too alone on the spread here, so I ended up finishing 2 others to aid him in his pestilential quests, "The Hermitworm an...

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"The Dragonslayers" Hi-Res Drawings and Color comps

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Today I have some drawings and previews for you for some upcoming traditionally painted work I have on the easel right now. The first is "the Dragonslayers" for the Dungeon Master Series, which I will be painting in...

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CREATURE POLL for May! Choose your favorite design:

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This month we are back with a new poll and a pile of martian pest creatures. Unlike last time though, w...

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MAY ROADMAP

Welcome to May! FIRST! A POLL is going up in an hour to choose which monster will be next for the May Martian-of-the-Month.  

These creatures and drawings will be the big feature here ...

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"Crabrat" hi-res Spread & Process Guide

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Since I began work on the Martian of the Month series, I have worked to try and find a purely digital way to concept, sketch, draw, and paint the characters. This decision, to make the whole Martian series without the ...

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Martian of the Month Sketchbook Spread Hi-Res Download

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Today I have the hi-res spread to share with you from our recent drawing streams on Twitch! These feature a menagerie of pestilential martian miscreants drawn purely from imagination. Like the previous spreads from this series, these are for the upcoming sketchbook and creature guide from the Martian of the Month project. View Post

Monsters and Martians Hi-Res Double-Feature

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Today I have a pair of creatures to share with you, each painted in very different ways (which I will cover later). First though, I'd like to share the Kobold Murmillo warrior! It has donned some classic gladiatorial armor, (and a somewhat anachronistic shield) and is for mayhem. I had a lot of fun with this one, diving into ...

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"Eye of the Beholder" Dungeon Master Illustration and Animatic Hi-Res

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Today, I have a hi-res final for you for the Beholder image we have been working on all month! The drawing for this one went very smoothly, ...but the illustration process was quite chaotic!

Rather than try to explain how messy the ...

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March Roadmap

This month, I'm excited to share a preview for the new Dungeon Master Series image we will be working on for the month: #43: "Eyes of the Beholder."

It's got a lot of figures, a lot of chaos, ...

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Martians and Monsters for February 2024!

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This month I have a few horrible little villains to share with you, one from the Monster of the Month, and four from the Martian series! The Monster for this month is the Trundlefoot, which should have been a nice, easy little lay-up. It somehow ended up being a slog where I got stuck in a loop. I think it wa...

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February Roadmap

Welcome to February! Last month we shared a ton of new work from the Martian series, along with a tutorial on how I create the backgrounds for the game, as well as a new Dungeon Master Series painting "The Dungeons of Death". This month I will be following that up with Part 2 of the T...

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"Bloorguhl has uhhpgrades, if yoou have coooin..."

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Today I have a fun little trader from the Martian of the Month series to share with you. These would be the characters you would encounter in game that might upgrade your gear, sell you illegal plasma canons, or scam you out of all your credits. 

There are about 12 of these planned, but this was th...

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"King Rat" Martian of the Month #22 and #27 Spread, Brush Set, and Bonus Previews!

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This month I've got a pair of little horrors for you! First, "King Rat, lord of the space fleas!" which was top pick in our poll this month. While painting his horrible coat of matted fur, I kept wondering what on earth must live in that? So I added #27, the Malignant Space Flea into this mon...

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POLL: Choose the Next Martians Creatures!

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Last month I shared the "Station Pests" spread from the Martian Series. This faction has creatures who are a genetic mash-up of rats, roaches, grubs and spiders. (Ahhhh! What a lovely bunch!!) While they form the lo...

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"Dungeons of Death" Dungeon Master Series #16 Hi-Res

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Today I am happy to finally release the "Dungeons of Death" Illustration! This has been in the works for far too long, but I was having a lot of fun with it, so I ended up spending longer than I should adding details to every last little nook and cranny. 

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Roadmap 2024

Happy New Year everyone!  2023 didn't go *exactly* as planned, (it never does...) but overall, I'd still say it was an amazing year! Apart from getting to work with a few dream clients this year and ge...

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The Long-Promised Year-End Martian of the Month Update

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"Eventually, you do plan to have Martians in your Martian tour, right?"

Today is the long-promised update on the ...

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December Roadmap

Well folks, November got away from me. I had a lot of BIG plans involving zombie minotaurs and legions of the undead. But sadly, the new DungeonMaster Series image remains languishing on the easel... 

But...

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Happy Thanksgiving! Bonus Monster

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I've got a bonus entree for you this Thanksgiving! The "Undigestible Gruel," which lost out to "Chef Surprise" by 1, still managed to slime its way into our line-up this month. 

While this one seemed really simple, it act...

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Monster of the Month: "Chef Surprise!"

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Today, I have finished art from our poll earlier this month! "Chef Surprise and Mushroom Stew" took top place, bumping out "Undigestible Gruel" by only 1 vote. (It was so close in fact that I may still try to get some gruel served up by Thanksgiving...) For now, here is Chef Surprise! 

2023-11-19 16:35:31 +0000 UTC View Post

November Roadmap & a Holiday Feast Poll

Welcome to November! This month (and hopefully more often going forward) we are going back to an old tradition of conducting a POLL at the start of the month to choose what we will be working on during the month.  And since November is the start of a season where we serve mysterious and disgusting foods ...

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Happy Halloween Hi-Res Images!

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Happy Halloween! Tonight I have a hi-res final for you of "the Scarrot," hunter of the Fanged Crabbit! 

But before we get to that, it is the night before Halloween and it seems fitting to also share this recent image a Banshee for Fanstratics:

2023-10-30 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Monster Drawings: "Dancing Marionettes", Ents & Orcs, and a Banshee

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Today, I have a final drawing to share with you for "Dancing Marionettes," which we have been streaming on Twitch this month.

The wolfspider was a ton of fun to work on, but I also had a lot of fun working on the little rabbit...

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Frog Minions and Denizens Poster Update!

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Today I have Update #2 for the month on our Denizens poster series! And for this one we turn now to the Sunken Dungeons and three little minions who will be filling the last few awkward spaces on the poster.

The first is the Toadguard:

2023-10-11 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post