Welcome back to May! Here is the front cover for Jonathan K. Williams upcoming book, Elle of Yorn and the Dragon Kiln, drawn and painted almost entirely on Twitch last month. If you missed it check out the VOD section of my channel to rewatch the development. It w...
2020-06-02 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe survived May! Let's see what June throws at us....
May saw an incredible launch for our Plague of Dragons Sketchbooks. Thank you everyone who picked up a copy or helped spread the word about the release. We can't wait to ship them out (very soon!!) to ever...
2020-06-01 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the animatic for the Kobold Warlock! As you can see from the frames, there was a lot of back and forth in the painting. I wasn't really sure if I wanted to go dark or light with him, and eventually went with a compromise of going dark, but then light the face a little. (The perils of working with no color comp!) I like where he and the Archer ended up, bu...
2020-05-27 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We finally finished the Kobold Double-feature for May!
I confess, I had hoped that by painting them side by side I would in fact save myself a great amount of time. It turned out to not be the case AT ALL. The total time for these 2 new monsters was about 16 hours of work time... far short of my 5 hour target for each figure. Ahh well, I learned from the expe...
2020-05-26 17:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Classic Fantasy Illustration is the book cover for Jonathan K. Williams forthcoming novel Elle of Yorn and the Dragon Kiln. Today I have the drawing to share with you, as well as the color comp!
The drawing was rendered in graphite on Strathmore Smooth Bristol at 11"x...
2020-05-22 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
At long last, Annie and I's 2019 Sketchbooks have gotten back from the printer and are finally available! It has been a long wait for us, but tomorrow, we are launching pre-orders for the open edition and the COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS, 10AM EST, Tuesday May 19th on ...
2020-05-19 02:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I am happy to share 2 members of our little Kobold army! The Kobold Warlock and the Kobold Archer!
The Warlock was the more popular of the 2 little miscreants when I did the drawings on Twitch, but I am still going to try and offer both in color this month for the Monster of the Month Tier.
I have 5 Kobolds planned for the series right now, the ...
2020-05-15 16:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
🔥Bonus video post!🔥 Here is how the Majestic Mer-Mule watercolor turned out! We did *almost* all of it on camera. There were a few tiny little bits we tightened up after the stream, but for the most part, we were able to get the whole creature done on c...
2020-05-11 20:19:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We are back with another #LETSDRAWMONSTERS vote! As with last time, our creature submissions exceeded the number of slots I am allowed for voting on Patreon, so you will need to enter your top pick in the comments and I will do the tallying manually. (and as with last time if you'd prefer to PM me your...
2020-05-07 19:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you everyone who joined us for #LETSDRAWMONSTERS Today! The submissions were AWESOME!! We had a great time with all of you!! Here is how our Mer-Mule turned out!
Also, I put together a little time-lapse video from the stream.... complete with machine ...
2020-05-06 20:20:22 +0000 UTC View Post
*This post was supposed to go up tomorrow morning, but.... there were leaks. (From a source that shall remain unnamed...) So now you get to see the prompt early! :) -jg
Welcome to #LETSDRAWMONSTERS creature design challenge for May 2020! This month is #MerMay, but instead of a lovely mermaid for our creature, we wanted to do something a bit more interest...
2020-05-06 00:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to MAY! It has been a crazy time, but it has been blast hanging out with you all during the lockdown here on Patreon and on Twitch!
We did a LOT in April! We had a full month of streams and got affiliated on Twitch (Wooo!), we finished a new Plague of Dragons wallpaper image, finished 2 new monsters and did a lot dr...
2020-05-01 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I have 2 scheduled streams this week to round out the month of April! For the first, we'll be drawing and designing some kobold characters (we've got an archer and a warlock!) in preparation for May's Monster of the Month.
Then for Saturday I have a commissioned illustration for a fantasy novel cover that I will be doing the tight drawing for on stream. It's a compl...
2020-04-28 03:58:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the brush set and animatic for this month's monsters! The brush set is primarily Goo-related, but there were a couple of really nice Rabbat brushes I added in as well.
Also, if you are interested, both monsters were pa...
2020-04-27 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For all of you who voted for "Drawing Dragons" (which lost out by only a single vote in our recent poll!) we are doing a bonus stream tomorrow at 10AM EST. We are going to be doing a traditional pencil demo on drawing dragons. We'll be doing studies from life, talking about technique, and just having some fun drawing together!
Here is the latest Plague of Dragons image, From Ruins. We painted this image almost entirely on stream live on Twitch this month. (It was about 20 hours of painting, 15 of which was painted live!) If you'd like to see any of the video process you can check out some of the 2020-04-23 23:13:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Guys! We did it! We made affiliate on Twitch! Thank you everyone who has been coming to hang out with us on stream!!
For this Wednesday's 10AM EST stream we will start out by talking a little about what we should do for emotes, badges, and all the rest of the new community options we have on Twitch. (#Bucketpuppy anyone??) I hope to have some fun options for your c...
2020-04-20 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We are doing a BONUS livestream tonight at 11PM EST! on TWITCH I will be be continuing work on From Ruins and hanging out with anyone in the chat. I will be discussing a lot of the process we've done on the painting so far and then going through what tricks and techniques I am using to smash and batter through the opaque rendering on t...
2020-04-18 18:55:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In these dark times I am back to the Plague of Dragons Series for a bit. I could use some tranquil peaceful little landscapes (with just a few dragons in there). Enjoy this hi-res version of the From Ruins drawing!
We are going to be painting this landscape LIVE on TWITCH next Wednesday. Tune in for some "happy-little-dragons...
2020-04-14 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you to everyone who came to paint with us this week during our #LETSDRAWMONSTERS Twitch event today!! It was awesome! Here is how the hi-res of the Rabbat turned out. It took about another half hour of touch-ups to get it to this state, plus another half hour of clean-up work. We did almost all of it live and in record time for the series at about 4 hours of painting!! WOooooooo!...
2020-04-11 20:24:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the hi-res drawing prepped and ready for color! If you missed Wednesday's stream, you can watch the VOD here! We are doing a bonus stream this week, Saturday, April 11th at 10AM EST! I will be colorizing my version of the Rabbat, and Annie will be sharing a video of her painting (fro...
2020-04-10 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI need your votes! Which "Rabbat" drawing best captures the essence of Halloween On Easter for you? Vote by writing the number below! (*Sorry I can't do normal Patreon voting this time since Patreon's voting system is capped at 25. I will be manually tallying the numbers Friday night! And if you want to cast a private ballot please feel free to message me your vo...
2020-04-09 17:35:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Bats have invaded our Easter this year! So in honor of Halloween on Easter, the Mystery Creature for today's Twitch stream is "The Rabbat."
Here is my reference material:
If you join in please share your drawing and hashtag i...
2020-04-08 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sharpen your pencils! Tomorrow, Wednesday April 8, 2020, we are announcing a COMMUNITY CREATURE PROMPT at 10AM EST on TWITCH.tv/justingerardillustration
So what's the event?
It's a 3 hour creature design challenge! At ...
2020-04-07 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you to everyone who came to paint the Goo with us on Twitch last Wednesday! It was a great stream and we made it through about 95% of the Goo. If you missed it and would like to see it, I have made the VOD from available here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/58258...
2020-04-06 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to April! Last month was a wild month for all of us. I hope you all are staying safe! With the lock down in effect, I am going to be mixing things up a bit here on the Patreon for April. I will be sharing a lot of new bonus content, launching a new tutorial series, and we are going to be doing something new each week on Twitch. Let's all stay inside and paint til this whole thing blows ...
2020-04-01 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the Dungeon Master Series illustration for March! I have also included a Process Guide for the image below.
In the Process Guide you will notice that the image changed a bit from the initial concept.
Originally, the figure in the cage h...
2020-03-30 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I had meant to paint the Grundhound earlier this month live on Twitch, but just couldn't bring myself to do it. Our little french bulldog Dakota passed away right before our scheduled stream, and I just had to put this aside for a while. As much as I hadn't meant for this creature to be a caricature of her, it really was. She was a crazy little demon, but she was our cra...
2020-03-27 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Twitch Streams are back! We'll be streaming live from our fallout bunker at 10AM EST tomorrow! We'll be digitally painting the Gooooo from the Holiday Feast Series. Brushes, techniques, zombie-apocalypse survival and cooking tips, we'll be covering all of it. Hope to see you there! -jg
2020-03-24 18:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Around this time of year, one of my favorite spiders start to show up in the evenings here in Georgia: Wolf-spiders! If you go out at night in the summer with a headlamp on, you can see their tiny little eyes in the grass. Flipping the light on and off is like revealing blue and green diamonds in the darkness. It's spooky and surreal. Anyway, here is my tribute to these little night...
2020-03-22 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post