Justin Gerard
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September Roadmap
🕑 Added 2021-09-01 18:31:03 +0000 UTC
Welcome to September!
Today, we gear up for an onslaught of orcs, mandalorians, wizards and jokers in the mayhem, madness and excitement of Dragoncon in Atlanta September 2-5! Come see Annie Stegg and I at booth 108 in the Art Show. (Air hugs and fist bumps only, and make sure you’ve got your shots.) Annie and I will be doing demos and talks during the show and with any luck we will do some livestreams as well. If you missed it, check out the VOD from our last Twitch stream, where we went over our Convention Survival Guide.
The main event for the show will be #LETSDRAWMONSTERS LIVE! Sunday night 5:30-6:30PM EST. It is going to be absolute chaos!
Because of all this, There will be no normally scheduled streams this first week of September. If we can get the wifi working at the convention, we plan to have some Twitch streams from our phone of booth tours and interviews throughout the show. Dragoncon is a major event for us, and so the rest of this month may be a bit quieter than usual. But we promise to make it up to you in October as we go all out for Halloween. We will be diving into our second major Monster of the Month Halloween Battle illustration, which I hope to stream throughout October. In preparation for that, we will be tackling a new Halloween themed creature for the Monster of the Month to prepare for it.
This month you can expect more work from the Faerie Queene including a battle scene involving Arthur fighting a man on a tiger, as well as the color work for the sea monster battle, both of which we plan to stream later this month.
TUTORIALS: I am going to try to do a basics tutorial this month. If you have any suggestions for something I’ve never covered before but you would find helpful please let me know in the comments!
Mentorships are limited this month due to the show, but if I have promised you a spot and you can’t get in please message me. We will be conducting the calls nearer the middle of the month to give me time to unpack after Dragoncon.
Mentorships are available on the following schedule:
- Monday, September 13, 4PM-5PM - TAKEN
- Monday, September 13, 6PM-7PM - Available
- Monday, September 13, 8PM-9PM - TAKEN
- Tuesday, September 14, 4PM-5PM - TAKEN
- Tuesday, September 14, 6PM-7PM - Available
- Tuesday, September 14, 8PM-9PM - TAKEN
- Thursday, September 16, 4PM-5PM - TAKEN
- Thursday, September 16, 6PM-7PM - TAKEN
- Thursday, September 16, 8PM-9PM - TAKEN
- Friday, September 17, 4PM-5PM - TAKEN
- Friday, September 17, 6PM-7PM - Available
- Friday, September 17, 8PM-9PM - TAKEN
If you've signed up, please message me with which spot you'd like! They are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis.
A Note on Limited Availability of Mentorships: Mentorship spots will be limited this month and next due to all the behind the scenes chaos. If I promised you a a spot and there isn’t space please message me and I will make sure to work you in! Things should open back up again in October.
Thank you all for your support and for making this possible! -jg
Comments
Justin Gerard
Hey Joseph, Thanks for the ideas! And actually, if you dig back through the tutorial posts on "Drawing Dragons" you will find a lot on pencil and drawing focused instruction. I planned to do a lot more on the subject, but I had to take a break from the series due to the pandemic. I'm hoping to dive back into it soon though!
Joseph Kulits
I know Lance Red mentioned a drawing tutorial and I feel the same way. I absolutely love your drawing and am always searching for drawing technique nuggets you share. So could you please, please do a drawing tutorial? Anything from getting better at life drawing to making quick studies to creating those beautiful little rough or finished landscape sketches you did for Plague of dragons or getting better at reading and rendering light and shadow. Really anything about drawing would be incredible. I’d hope too that maybe you’d be interested at some point in releasing regular tutorials or posts focused specifically on drawing. That would be super awesome.
Savina Francisco
I know you've covered some of these before, but I'd love to see tutorial topics on how to add weight/volume to characters (especially fat animals, characters who are sitting, etc.); how to create in different, interesting perspectives (specifically how to create characters & scenes from below and above - unusual perspectives). Also, how to use perspective changes to change the mood of a painting/drawing; when to use complementary color schemes or the other types of color schemes to create moods; and finally, if you could do a lesson on creating foliage, trees, etc. in watercolor, that would be amazing - it's so difficult for me to mix greens!!
