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 portf...
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 Febru...
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.
Than...
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...
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, st...
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...
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 t...
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...
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, takin...
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 b...
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 onl...
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 Mult...
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. 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 t...
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 finishi...
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 d...
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 w...
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 br...
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 qui...
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 i...
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...
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 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 o...
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 w...
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 ...
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 wo...
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 ...
2018-11-22 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post