Justin Gerard

Monster of the Month REWARDS for June 2021!

Added 2021-06-21 12:00:01 +0000 UTC

This month's monster and minion was the Cave Gypsum Giant and the Excavator Kobold Minion. I ended up separating them out because they ended up looking SO different. The reason for this, I suspect, is because I did ALL of the color work for the Gypsum Giant in the 5 hours right after I got my second COVID shot. I had been drinking electrolytes like it was my job that day, and maybe that was part of it. I ended up finishing it all in just one sitting. (I felt like the shot had made me superhuman, ... and then the next day I felt like a ton of bricks had fallen on me). The style has some a little unique too it, and that is because I worked on all one multiply layer, using a brush set to multiply. (So multiply on multiply)

In the end, I think what I came up with for this monster was really interesting, but it does have a different feel to it. Something a bit like watercolor and ink.

I made several new brushes while working on it that I think you will really like. In particular the All-Purpose Rhino has been my default brush for the past month, and is the primary brush I've been using for the Faerie Queene paintings I have been doing on Twitch. The Gypsum Ink and Gypsum Pencil are other drawing brushes that I used for our Warcraft 4 Orc design on our dual stream with Dave Greco. You can find all the brushes for the month here:

BRUSH SET DOWNLOAD LINK

The Kobold Excavator turned out a lot more like the others, and was a more straight-forward painting experience. Since it was more straight-forward I have decided to use it for our process guide this month: