Welcome to 2023! 2022 continued the long, unending train wreck that started in 2020. At the start of last year I had a dozen big, amazing, starry-eyed plans in 2022 of which I finished maybe one. The first half of the year was spent catching up from the disasters of 2020 and 2021, and then the second half of the year was a floating dumpster fire of non-stop school sicknesses. (They called it a tripledemic, but it was more of a decademic for us...) So for 2023, I hesitate to promise any New Ye...
2023-01-01 13:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Today I have a rare holiday Fruitcake for you, and the final brush set for 2022! The brushes in it were instrumental in the recent Martian painting "Waiting For Pick-Up".
Click for BRUSH SET FOLDER
Thanks t...
2022-12-15 06:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Today I am pleased to finally present the first full color splash image from the Martian of the Month series. "Waiting for Pick-up" is the menu splash image for the game at the moment, and is the first of several splash images planned for the game. The image also offers a great chance to explore the world and get to know the inhabitants a little better. The main goal of the image was to create something that invites the viewer in, and makes them want to play it. (Which I hope is working!)&nbs...
2022-12-14 14:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to December! The holidays are upon us and things will only be getting crazier until the whole 2022 train comes crashing into the station this New Year's Eve. On the way there though, we will have a lot of fun stuff to share with you. For fans of traditional oil painting, this month I plan to start a larger oil painting which we will be live-streaming on Twitch throughout the month. It is based on one of our rejected sketches from the Dark Souls ...
2022-12-01 13:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Today I've got a little drop of hi-res drawings for you! The first is the "Fusty Musty Fruitcake" from today's stream! It goes out to all those kids who spend holiday dinners in terror of what horrible traditional holiday concoction that is going to be foisted upon them!
Congrats to LynnLarson for winning the original during our livestream on Twitch! I'll be doing a color trea...
2022-11-25 18:57:02 +0000 UTC
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Today I have several hi-res creature design pages to share with you! These are in watercolor and pencil and many of them were created while streaming live on twitch where the audience offered many constructive and helpful tips. "Stop stealing our ideas!", and, "Do your own work!" and, "This is classic Justin, first library books, then bank pens, and now martians. Is nothi...
2022-11-18 15:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Today I have a secret, behind-the-scenes character from the martian game to share with you. These images are not for social media at this point, (I'm still keeping the game under wraps at the moment,) but I am really excited about this and wanted to share it with you today here on Patreon.
The image ...
2022-11-18 14:47:05 +0000 UTC
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I hope all of you had a pleasant Halloween! We survived October (barely) and are limping our way into what I hope will be a much more chill November.
Last month we finished our third Halloween Battle scene, "The Gloomwald Swamp" and we released it along with our previous battles as a print and sticker set!: 2022-11-01 13:00:00 +0000 UTC
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This month's Tutorial is available as a PDF attachment below!
The Brush Set for this month's painting can found here:
THE GLOOMWALD PHOTOSHOP BRUSH SET
2022-10-26 13:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Today, I am happy to share the hi-res final for our 2022 Halloween Battle, "The Gloomwald Swamp." I've been excited about this one for a long time, and working on all the zombie trees and medieval chaos turned out to be every bit as much fun as I had hoped it would all be!
Do the kids make it out of this one? I don't think sharp and pointy weapons ar...
2022-10-25 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Final Color (Digital in Photoshop on a Wacom Intuos Tablet)
Original Drawing (Graphite on Strathmore Smooth Bristol)
"Queen Lucifera and the House of Pride" from the Faerie Queene. This is the first of our bon...
2022-10-03 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to October and our Annual Halloween Battle! This year, we leave the pastoral fields, and the desolate peaks, and journey now to a forgotten swamp, and a cursed, ancient ruin that should have been left alone...
Each week this month we will be working on this Halloween battle scene, live on twitch, including some bonus streams (likely on F...
2022-10-01 11:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Some great news! This month I received clearance to post work from my time working with Riotminds on the Trudvang series. Specifically I am excited to be sharing my work for "Jorgi's Bestiary." There is a LOT of work to share, so I am going to be releasing it in chunks like this one over the next few months. I hope you enjoy them as much as I've enjoyed making them!
"Hyd...
2022-09-20 17:58:28 +0000 UTC
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Today, we have officially finished our contract for the Faerie Queene. What a ride!! However, before the book goes to print, we are going to take some of the drawings to full color as bonus illustrations for the book. And YOU are going to choose which ones!
What would be the most interesting to see in full color? What would add someth...
2022-09-15 15:37:36 +0000 UTC
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Today I have a huge batch of Book six illustrations from the FAERIE QUEENE! Book six is the final book Edmund Spenser finished before his death, and is the last book I will be working on. I have loved working on this project and can't wait to see how the final book series turns out when it is printed.
TODAY'S BONUS ILLUSTRATION POLL:<...
2022-09-15 14:34:52 +0000 UTC
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By Justin and Annie Stegg Gerard
Note: A PDF version of this article has been attached below for your convenience.
Artists are peculiar creatures, and no two are created alike. They often have vastly different goals and ideas for the same image, and will pursue those goals in wildly different methods. One may esteem classical beauty as the ideal for an artwork, while another may see anarchic cultural rebellion as the highest form of visual expression. Because of t...
2022-09-03 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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It's Day 1 of DRAGONCON! And today I have a preview of some new drawings made for the show to share with you. It's a little mini-series of Dungeon Master Series portraits I've been working on here and there for a while. It's essentially a police line-up of the usual suspects, classic fantasy edition! They are all 5"x7" inches, Matted and framed in gold. They are al...
2022-09-02 13:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to September! DRAGONCON month! You can expect a bit more mayhem than usual, more content, more VODs, and more traditional art. (And hopefully no con-crud...)
I have a lot of new work to share with you and hopefully some fun convention stories and updates. If you are attending ...
2022-09-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Today, I FINALLY have a proper Martian of the Month post for you! (It's a return to the good ol' days when I actually stayed on target month to month!) To make up for it, I have a triple-feature this month with Menial Globster, The Titan Globster, and The Globsting. In the game world, these would be seen alone, or as part of their hunting party group:
I love making these littl...
2022-08-14 13:57:31 +0000 UTC
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The Fire Wyrm, otherwise known as the Fire-breathing Garden Snail, is based upon a curious sketch in a long forgotten manuscript where it is seen looming on the edges of peaceful fields, or stalking along the roofs of quiet cottages. The fire wyrm is a large, fire-breathing gastropod boasting a heavy shell, with the hind body of a snail, but the front body of a dragon with prominent, spiked horns. In its various depictions, its size ranges from that of a tiny...
2022-08-03 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to August! I have a lot planned for this month, so let's dive in:
#LETSDRAWMONSTERS will be back this coming Wednesday. (We are 99% finished with the book and will be sending it off for proofs this week!
We will be Streaming on TWITCH every Wednesday throughout the month. BUT, my kids are also starting school for the first time today, sooooo.... the first few weeks might get bumpy as far as times...
2022-08-01 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Today is my birthday, and so, in classic Hobbit-fashion, I have a present for YOU. First, here is "The Miscreant Gnasher," born of a throw-away sketch from a cancelled client job. (Can't see why they would have passed on this lovable creature.)
And also the Hellion from our recent Fanstratics livestream on Twitch:
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2022-07-26 13:41:18 +0000 UTC
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This month I have a LOT of cool stuff to share with you! First, we've got the new monster, "Shaz'ral". I painted this character because I felt like the monster of the month series lacked something genuinely sinister, something that you'd want to fight, rather than maybe adopt as a mildly-destructive pet. I wanted more, "Kill it! Kill it with fire!"
Also, I just wanted to paint some vipers with a new brush I designed earlier in the month for the Faerie Queene. And ...
2022-07-21 15:10:12 +0000 UTC
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The following is a selection of artwork that I recently completed for the ongoing Faerie Queene project. I hope you enjoy them!
Here is my rough thumbnails for this one. They are extremely simple and straight-forward, (I won't show the previously batch, because they are actually unrecognizable as mar...
2022-07-11 13:00:01 +0000 UTC
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"The Jeweled Snapping Birdle"
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Professor Feazel Van Dorf, often called the most unreliable expert in his field by his detractors, and discoverer of the now debunked "Mothcow", recently made a discovery which, if true, will shake the paleontology world to its geologic foundations. His fossil discovery, which he has named “t...
2022-07-06 12:51:55 +0000 UTC
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JUNE was a magnificent disaster. I had an absolutely wonderful time in Europe. I got to hang out with some of my heroes and old friends, met a bunch of awesome new people, and had an all-round incredible time hanging out in Copenhagen... but then I got back and felt like a train had fallen on me. I was a wreck for the last 2 weeks of June, and am only now picking up all the pieces again. Now it's July, I'm back on my feet, and finally ready to get back into the ring again. I le...
2022-07-01 13:00:01 +0000 UTC
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This month I have 2 interesting creatures to share with you! First is a surprise #LETSDRAWMONSTERS creature that Annie and I never streamed as it was part of a live, in-person event. It also features prominently in this month's tutorial on THE CYCLE.
Next, we have the "Krasadox Vulturian" for Fanstratics, which was drawn live on stream.
I hope you've enjoyed these!...
2022-06-08 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! I am on a secret mission in Europe at the moment. I cannot say where or with who, but it is awesome. I look forward to sharing everything with you when the NDA lifts. Because of this, most of our monthly Patreon and Twitch festivities won't begin until later on this month. #LETSDRAWMONSTERS, the Martian of the Month, an absolutely BONKERS monster confrontation from the Faerie Queene, new Fanstratics, and a new
2022-06-01 13:00:01 +0000 UTC
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This month I am sharing 2 new characters, one from space, one from the dungeons, both sinister!
"Crasgar" Captain of the Guard from the Monster of the Month series, is also the subject of this month's tutorial, where we go in depth into the 3 main stages I cycle through when rendering.
Next, we have Vorschagal, from the Martian of the Month series. I mea...
2022-05-25 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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This month, I'm pleased to share a bonus character from the Monster of the Month series! The monster project is on the back burner for the time being while we get this Martian game off the ground, but I still plan on dropping in every now and again to do the occasional character. I just really love painting these little medieval fantasy dungeon monsters.
2022-05-10 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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