Welcome to May! Last month we tackled The Land of Eem, Fanstratics, Dark Souls, The Harbinger and Froglin Monsters, and just generally had a great time and a great month of painting! So good to be back!
For May we will narrowing our focus to really start making big progress on the Faerie Queen, while also continuing our work on the Monster of the Month series! 2021-05-01 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I have a hi-res and Process Guide for this month's pair of miscreants! The Harbinger and the Froglin Minion!
These were a blast to paint! I've been looking forward to these guys for a while now. They took about 6 hours total for the pair of them, (which is...
2021-04-24 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the final version of our Land of Eem illustration, commissioned for the Rickety Stitch series. (You can check the upcoming RPG game the image will appear in here!)
The process I used to paint this was my old watercolor and digital method, which is a little more complex t...
2021-04-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I have 2 brush sets for you! The first built around last month's Kakopire Bat Lord and the second built around this month's Harbinger monster. Both sets have been designed for opaque painting and are meant to offer a look closer to that of oil brushwork.
I will be using these brushes tonight at 5PM EST on our Twitch stream to paint the Dark Souls commission. T...
2021-04-14 19:17:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you everyone who joined us for this month's #LETSDRAWMONSTERS Creature Design Challenge: The Mantisquirrel
Here are the submissions for the vaunted Golden Sluglord Award:
2021-04-10 19:13:04 +0000 UTC
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This month's Monster is... "The Mantisquirrel"
PROMPT:
The mantisquirrel is a magical imp. It is a solitary creature, which is rarely seen today, but was common enough in the ancient world. While descriptions of it vary, it is said to have the mane of a lion, the body of a common squirrel, the tail of a scorpion, and bat wings. It can sp...
2021-04-07 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to April! March was a train wreck, inside of a car crash, inside of an active volcano for me. We lost a computer hard drive, 2 weeks of work, and we fell waaaay behind on everything. Thank you all for sticking with me through the chaos!
So while we recover from March, what can we expect from April? This month we are working overtime to make up for lost ground last month. We ...
2021-04-01 13:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is how "The Kakopire Bat" turned out! I went back to an older method for the painting for this one. It was the same method I used for the Rose Knight. I feel like it was simpler and more efficient overall than some of the methods I have been using recently.
In the Process Guide below you can get a sense of how it went. It requires me to cut a mask at the beginn...
2021-03-24 18:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
As I was without a computer this month, I have had a lot of time for pencil drawings! So today I have a trove of pencil drawings to share with you!
ALSO! We are mere weeks out from the Monster of the Month Sketchbook release! 68 pages of mayhem, terror, and imagination run amok!
The first is our Monster of the Month: The Kakopire Bat! I can't wa...
2021-03-17 20:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostThank you everyone who joined us for this month's #LETSDRAWMONSTERS Creature Design Challenge: The Terabit Byter
Here are the submissions for the vaunted Golden Sluglord Award:
The Winner will receive a free Rose Knight print!&nbs...
2021-03-06 18:17:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Monster is: The Terabit Byter
*Special thanks to Clayton_Creates and Matt2Dee on the Discord for the name!
Our stream this month will be much more informal. My computer is down and out (eaten by this month's monster) and so we will be running the stream via a hamster-powered toaster oven. Expect chaos today. Next month we should be back to norm...
2021-03-03 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
March has begun as a pure, unmitigated catastrophe. And I blame Baby Yoda.
My computer is right now a pile of smoldering, burnt toast. The hard drive has been fried to pixelated oblivion and the GPU tastes of hot magenta squares buttered in raw ascii code. The plane has crashed into the mountain.
This means 2 things:
1. I am going to be getting a big ...
2021-03-01 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Monster of the Month for February was The Kobold Reclaimer!
This month we are doing another Process Guide to share the steps we took in creating this creature. We also livestreamed the painting of it, so if you'd like to see these steps in gre...
2021-02-26 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We've got a lot of fun bonus drawings for everyone from our Twitch streams this month! First, we've got a character shot AND a vignette for Krumlock, our Unlikely Hero for the month. And since we finished our drawing of him a little early on stream this month, we snuck in a cheeky CHATDRAWSMONSTERS event, which ended with us taking home our very own Sealshroom....
2021-02-26 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, I've got a trove of new drawings to share from the Monster of the Month series. These are all sketches and drawings that will be appearing in our upcoming sketchbook (and hopefully the base for a few upcoming color images!). It features: 1 new item, A LOOT CHEST! (But I wouldn't touch it...)
2021-02-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Here are the entries for this month's #LETSDRAWMONSTERS creature design challenge! It's time for you as the community to choose you favorite! Write the letter and number in the comments below for your vote. (We got too many entries to do a standard Patreon poll.)
*Also, if you'd like to see these closer, check them out on the Instagram hashtag or on our Discord. I have also attached a hig...
2021-02-06 17:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Prompt for Today is:
"The Fox-Tailed Frostodile"
Backstory:
"The fox-tailed frostodile, hunter of the rare arctic fur frog, was a small, gregarious creature which once reportedly inhabited a small chain of islands along the arctic circle. Frostodiles were said to have been highly active, playful, and unafraid of humans. Sadly, due...
2021-02-03 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to February!
This month, we are going to be starting off right out of the gate with #LETSDRAWMONSTERS, Wednesday night at 5PM EST on Twitch! After that, we will forging ahead with our new BATTLES series, monsters, and more!
Monster of the Month: This will be the big focus this month, and to start off we are tackling the Reclaimer and his pet...
2021-02-01 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the first post in a new series for 2021: Classic Fantasy Fiction BATTLES! This series of paintings will focus on large-scale battles and epic mayhem from some of my favorite moments in classic fantasy fiction. Each image will feature dozens of pre-vis sketches, thumbnails, studies and color comps that I will be sharing with you before diving in. And each will be done...
2021-01-25 21:03:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We have an extra large Monster of the Month goodie bag for you this month! It includes Hi-Res files, extra brush sets, a process guides, even some bloopers. Speaking of bloopers, Thank you everyone who joined us for the livestream on Saturday! We developed all of this month's Photoshop brushes live on Twitch. (The VOD will be up on my Twitch channel for a...
2021-01-18 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
January is the first month working in a new format as we start tackling minions and henchmen alongside with our classic monsters! Based on our poll from earlier this month, we are going to be starting with the Whoolly Bookworm, The Magimoth and second bonus minion, The Carnivorous Book! These 3 monsters are all magic eaters, and will offer some fun new effects to try and captu...
2021-01-13 18:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the entries for this month's #LETSDRAWMONSTERS creature design challenge! These are INCREDIBLE everyone!! Choose you favorite and write the letter and number in the comments below for your vote. (We got too many entries to do a standard Patreon poll.)
*Also, if you'd like to see these closer, check them out on Instagram or on our Discord. I have also attached a higher-res ...
2021-01-09 19:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Prompt for Today is:
"The Lop-Eared Landshark"
Backstory:
This ugdorable creature is said to have been a truly terrible pest for farmers in the 4th and 5th centuries. Often cited as a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire during that period, they were a constant scourge in regions with sandy soil, through which t...
2021-01-06 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2021 we are going to be doing the Monster series a little different! Moving forward, each month we will be featuring a minion or henchman for each Monster. Our first battle features monsters from the Kobold, Frog, Slug and Miscreant factions! We will paint the winn...
2021-01-02 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post2020 was a wild ride! (...let's not do it again.) Last year we delivered a ton of brand new monsters, 200+ new brushes, The Dungeon Master Series, a pile of dragon landscapes, a new gold-plated sketchbook, a bi-weekly Twitch broadcast, #LETSDRAWMONSTERS, expanded mentorships, a new Discord (thanks Adriano!), and we even started an art cult dedicated the all-powerful Staedtler 925! ...
2021-01-01 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope your Holiday has been good! I have a present for you: A Krampus hi-res bonus monster!
This one was a ton of fun to work on and I'm glad we were able to sneak it in this month! Thank you to everyone who came to hang out with us on stream ...
2020-12-25 19:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Final Hi-Res for this month's Classic Fantasy Illustration The Emperor of the Forest from the Plague of Dragons Series.
We painted this image live for a few streams on Twitch if you'd like to see any of the livestreams. They showcase some spectacular livestream fails,...
2020-12-23 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Early Christmas! Here is a hi-res wallpaper of the Krampus drawing! We will be working on the color painting of this Saturday (tomorrow) at 5PM EST!
Also, a moment to mention that if you join the 10$ tier right now, I am offering the complete YEAR TWO set of the Monster of the Month brushes as a limited time holiday download. Today's...
2020-12-18 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the Process Guide for this month's monster of the month, the Dungeon Keeper!:
If you missed it, the VOD for the livestreams of me painting this guy will still be up on Twitch for another week or so!
Next, our U...
2020-12-18 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Meet the Dungeon Keeper! The one in charge of making sure the worst of our monsters stay locked away. Who knows what horrors lie in wait behind all those locked doors?
This monster was one of most fun to work on that we've done in a long time! We have been working on a lot of bug, plant and fungus inspired monsters for the past few months, and it has been nice to g...
2020-12-09 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post