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"Fire Dragon" Oil Painting Hi-Res
This Month's Classic Fantasy Illustration is the "Fire Dragon" is an 8"x10" Original Oil painting made for www.eve...
2019-01-29 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Monster! "The Homunculus" High-Res Final Art
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 li...
2019-01-28 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Sluglord" in 3D!
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...
2019-01-25 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Monster!: "The Homunculus" High-Res Tight Drawing
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...
2019-01-23 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary Photoshop Brush Set Link!
This month we've got a lot of textural brushes for painting frog skin! (Now if only our subject had...
2019-01-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostVILE TRICKERY #014 : Using Screen Layers to add lighting
Welcome 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...
2019-01-16 17:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Fire Dragon" Hi-Res Drawing for Every Day Original
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 sub...
2019-01-14 20:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostPoll Results and New Goals!
Thank you to everybody for voting in our 2019 Goals poll!
The results are in and Writte...
2019-01-10 15:13:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Skelefrog Final Art!
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 th...
2019-01-08 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post2019 Goals!
I 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!
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2019-01-07 20:12:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Skelefrog: Monster of the Month for January!
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 drawi...
2019-01-04 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to 2019!
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 exis...
2019-01-02 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas to All!
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 ...
2018-12-25 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostA Christmas Eve Present for You!
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"St. George and the Dragon: Confrontation" Final Illustration and Process Guide
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 fro...
2018-12-20 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post2018 DRAGON Brush Set : FREE DEMO!
Happy Holidays All! This month I am launching a new brush set, The 2018 Dragon Brush Set 2018-12-18 19:15:21 +0000 UTC View Post
"St. George and the Dragon : Confrontation" Hi Res Drawing
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...
2018-12-17 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJinglethorpe Animatic and Monthly Brush Set!
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 o...
2018-12-15 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWandering Jinglethorpe Hi-Res & Backstory
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...
2018-12-14 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostJinglethorpe WIP
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 ...
2018-12-10 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWandering Jinglethorpe Drawing
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...
2018-12-07 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"The Battle for Moria" Hi Res Illustration
Bonus Hi-Res for December!
"The Battle for Moria: Dain v Azog"
by Justin Gerard
2018
Photoshop color over traditional graphite ...
2018-12-04 18:11:13 +0000 UTC View PostSECRET DISCOUNT CODES for my SHOP
As a reward for being a member of the Monster-of-the-Month Club, you now have access t...
2018-12-02 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostJustin's Little Shop of Monsters
This month I am pleased to announce that we are officially opening a secret store exclusively for Monster ...
2018-12-02 05:00:54 +0000 UTC View PostSpongebob Hi-Res
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 Ann...
2018-11-29 19:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostLudicrous 50% Off Code for all PS Brushes
Today 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...
2018-11-26 15:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostDark Wizard Security #2 Watercolor and Ink
Bonus watercolor this month!
I recently finished a watercolor and ink commission that I wanted to share with everybody here. It wa...
2018-11-25 18:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostAnimated Process for "The Bog-Hoggle"
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 sha...
2018-11-22 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post