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May Roadmap
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...
Harbinger and Froglin! Monster and Minion of the Month!
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 great considering it was 2 mon...
Land of Eem Watercolor Digital Process Guide
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 than my usual pencil a...
April Double Brush Set! Kakopire and Harbinger Brushes
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 to...
GOLDEN SLUGLORD Awards for the Mantisquirrel!
Thank you everyone who joined us for this month's #LETSDRAWMONSTERS Creature Design Challenge: The MantisquirrelHere are the submissions for the vaunted Golden Sluglord Award:Select the one that best captures the idea of "The Mantisquirrel" for you!And here are our winners from the lives...
#LETSDRAWMONSTERS12 PROMPT for April 2021
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,...
April Roadmap
Welcome 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 ...
"The Kakopire Bat" Final Colors : Monster of the Month for March 2021
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...
Monster of the Month Sketchbook Drawings!
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 Monst...
GOLDEN SLUGLORD AWARDS for March!
Thank you everyone who joined us for this month's #LETSDRAWMONSTERS Creature Design Challenge: The Terabit ByterHere are the submissions for the vaunted Golden Sluglord Award:The Winner will receive a free Rose Knight print!And here are our winners from the livestream and their categories! Congr...
#LETSDRAWMONSTERS PROMPT for MARCH 2021
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 toast...
March Roadmap : Crashed!
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 ...
Monster of the Month Rewards for February!
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 greater detail, the VODs will be up on my channel for...
February Monster Box!
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 CHATDRAWSM...
Monster-of-the-Month Sketchbook Drawings!
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...
The Golden Sluglord Award for The "Fox-Tailed Frostodile"
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 s...
#LETSDRAWMONSTERS Prompt for February 2021!
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...
February Roadmap
Welcome 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 st...
The WAR of the WORLDS
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 col...
Magimoth Monster Brush Set and Hi-Res Rewards!
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 l...
Hi-Res Monster Drawings for January!
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 mons...
Golden Sluglord Award for "The Lop-Eared Landshark"
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 the...
#LETSDRAWMONSTERS PROMPT for January 2021
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...
VOTE in the Monster of the Month 2021 Battle #1!
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 winning party this month, and then s...
ROADMAP 2021
2020 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 (than...
Merry Christmas!
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 while we pencilled and pain...
"The Emperor of the Forest" Hi-Res
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, like this guy: The Invas...
"Krampus" Hi-Res Drawing and Brush Set Preview
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...
"The Dungeon Keeper" Process Guide and "Weeds" Hi-Res
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 Unlikely Hero of the month is "Weeds" Agnes which we also finished live o...
"The Dungeon Keeper" Monster of the Month for December 2020
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 fungu...
