Meet the Werelizard! Our monster for this month. He's a crazy, deranged and ravenous. And because of this, he is in more of an action pose than most of the other monsters. I typically prefer to show the character in some kind of repose for these shots, but the natural scientists who studied him explain that once changed into his half-animal form, this were-creature is constantly in ...
2019-08-12 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Today I'd like to share some landscapes I've been drawing in pencil for DragonCon next month. They are small, 4"x6" pastoral scenes drawn on bristol, featuring moments from my Plague of Dragons series. I love little landscapes, and I have been having so much fun doing them in graphite recently. (It just goes so fast!) I work very slowly when I work in c...
2019-08-08 20:13:33 +0000 UTC
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I know it's August, but here is one of the paintings I started in July (that took a bit longer to dry than expected) It was a lot of fun to work on and was painted in a method I rarely use.
Last Month, Jerry's Artarama was kind enough to send me a set of Turner Acryla-Gaouche paints to try...
2019-08-02 14:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to August! This month we are going to be focusing on new work for DragonCon, which is happening September 5 in Atlanta, GA! And I am NOT READY for the show!! The plan this month is to do a lot of new original artwork for DragonCon, and share it with you guys here throughout the month. We will have a few monsters, some randoms, a few oils that a...
2019-08-01 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Today I've got a Mummy Minotaur for you! This guy was one of the absolute MOST FUN monsters I've worked on so far, and best of all, I actually hit my 5 HOUR GOAL! (For the first time ever!) He just came together very quickly. In part this was due to some new brushes I've developed that saved me a lot of time. It all went so fast, even with all the extra mummy cloth strips...
2019-07-30 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Guys! it's July 26, my birthday! (Wooo, I'm 3,000 years old!)
To celebrate this year, I have a Hobbit-style birthday present for you: A high-res Mummy Minotaur Drawing with a video of the drawing process!
I hope you like them...
2019-07-26 21:41:23 +0000 UTC
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This month's brush set is a larger one! It offers 11 total brushes which include a high texture blender brush and smudge brush. All the brushes, with the exception of the "Snapping Watercolor Brush", are high texture brushes, designed especially to be used on creatures with rough skin, and to give your drawings a distinct, natural media feel.
The "Hyr...
2019-07-19 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hi Guys! Today I have the final painting for The Turtle Hydra Monster of the Month for July 2019! This has been one of my favorite characters to work on in a long time. I love painting snapping turtles :D They just have such interesting faces.
As for the time it to...
2019-07-15 13:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Today we are celebrating my wife Annie's birthday!
For her birthday I've done a drawing of 2 of her favorite creatures: A French Bulldog and a little Toad!
We have a little french bulldog named Dakota, and in this illustration I show why I believe she goes bonkers sometimes. I don't think she means to be bad, I think she probably has the heart of an angel, but sometimes...
2019-07-11 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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This month's monster is The Turtle Hydra! He was the runner-up in last month's vote, and I have been eager to take a shot at this guy ever since. Turtles are such fun creatures to draw, and in particular, snapping turtles are my favorite! They are such wild and monstrous looking creatures when you really start to look at them closely. I had a lot of fun just adding a head here an...
2019-07-10 02:09:35 +0000 UTC
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Happy 4th of July! (unless you are from the UK, in which case, Happy Ungrateful Peasants Day!)
Today, I present to you: GARBAGE ROYALE!
Who's going to win?? I've got my money on the Trash Panda, but the rat with a spork is a real wild card.
This month we hit the
2019-07-04 15:49:51 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to July! I've got a lot of exciting stuff planned to share with you guys this month!
First off, our Monster of the Month for July is the Turtle Hydra! He was the close runner-up to the Ghostfish in last month's Monsters of Jekyll Island series and I am really looking forward to working on him this month.
2019-07-02 13:59:59 +0000 UTC
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Here is a Hi-Res Drawing for The Trash Panda. A character I designed for a short series of paintings I started in 2018, but never had a chance to finish. Next month I am going to be working on a new painting for DragonCon 2019 that will feature this guy. I will be sharing the progress with you guys here before the show.
Here is a behind t...
2019-07-01 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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This month has been a whirlwind! First up, Annie and I are now sponsored by Jerry's Artarama. So in the coming months I will be sharing some product reviews as well as some high res art made using some of the goodies that they've sent me as part of the program. You'll hear more about this in the coming months, but for today, I have a Dragon Head Study to share with ...
2019-06-29 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! Today, I have ALL the rewards for the Monster of the Month tier: a Hi-res Wallpaper, a Brush Set, and a Process Guide for The Ghostfish! Thank you everyone for your help in choosing him! He was such a fun monster to work on!
For the Process Guide: I painted the colors in Adobe Photoshop ...
2019-06-25 12:59:59 +0000 UTC
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The results are in! And the Ghost Fish just barely slipped past the Turtle Hydra in the poll to become this month's Monster!
I just finished the drawing today and have to say, this will probably be one of the more creepy characters we will have in the series. Can't wait to start painting! I am starting the color work right away and will be trying t...
2019-06-22 21:59:21 +0000 UTC
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Last week I spend some time with family at Jekyll Island. While there, Annie and I did some exploring and on location studies of the flora and fauna of the island.
Today I return to share with y...
2019-06-19 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Today I have a drawing for the Instagram hashtag #junicorn to share with you! Not sure if this counts as a unicorn, or more as a mermaid? or a monster from the black lagoon? Anyway, it was fun to work on for the prompt and I am sharing it with everyone today as a freebie.
The drawing was done as a demo for one of our Mentorships this mon...
2019-06-08 19:03:39 +0000 UTC
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A few quick updates as we get rolling into our rewards for June 2019!
The Mentorships Schedule has just been posted! Our available dates for June are:
Wednesday the 5th
Thursday the 6th
Friday the 7th
We have only 1 spot remaining for June! If you are cons...
2019-06-02 18:56:53 +0000 UTC
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Here is the 5th image in the series A Plague of Dragons.
I had a lot of fun working on the castle for this one. It's been awhile since I've gotten to do some nice architecture, something I don't usually love doing, but was really enjoyable here.
The most challenging aspect was using the linework in the drawing as a guide for brushwork in the opaque color phase....
2019-05-28 13:53:05 +0000 UTC
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2019-05-22 12:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys! Today I have the drawing for an image from my upcoming sketchbook "A Plague of Dragons" that will be our Classic Fantasy Illustration for May.
This drawing was drawn on Strathmore 400 Series Smooth Bristol using Kimberly's pencils and a Staedtler 0.5mm 925.
Here is a shot of my initial thumbnail:
2019-05-21 10:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Step-by-Step Tutorial will be available tomorrow! :D
2019-05-20 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Here is the finished Caput Mortuum Stump!
While I was working on this one, I had one of my kids with me, and he kept pointing at it and calling it a "Meepee." I'm not sure exactly what Meepee might really mean in toddlerspeak, but he was pretty convinced that is what this monster was. I had planned on naming it a Caput Mortuum Stump (after one of my favorite water...
2019-05-16 15:02:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! I've got a drawing to share with you today!
We are just $5 a month away from achieving the Bonus Content goal! (...And as I mentioned earlier, I hope I'm not jinxing myself by already starting on content for the month.)
For this month I will be sharing a bonus image of an Uruk-Hai warrior painted traditionally in Acryla-Gouache...
2019-05-10 14:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The Monster of the Month for May is... the Caput Mortumm! The corrupted Ent won by a shocking landslide of 95% in our poll! 95%!! The Terror from the Sunken Depths is off licking his wounds the poor fellow. Maybe we'll see him in the future? We'll see.
So tha...
2019-05-06 13:00:00 +0000 UTC
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I need your votes!
The poll is between these 2 monsters:
The Horror from the Cursed Depths, an unnatural octopus-thing that has crawled up from the underworld, versus a Caput Mortuum,
2019-05-03 13:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to May!
Last month, we launched the new Tutorials Tier, we sent out the free Sluglord sticker, we grew by an amazing 25%, and we had an awesome time painting. It was a banner month and I want to thank you guys for it! It's so exciting to see how far we've come in just 6 months here on Patreon!
First off: Both Tut...
2019-05-02 13:00:00 +0000 UTC
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2019-04-29 18:59:25 +0000 UTC
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The brushes this month are focused on painting scaly hides!
The Soft Pastel Scales Brush was the workhorse of the set for me. I used it for a large amount of shading and general brushwork. The most fun to work with was the Jubjub Carcass Brush, (which just goes mad when you start to layer with it as it's blending mode is set to Screen.) <...
2019-04-29 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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