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Setting up a New Dungeon Master Series Painting


Justin Gerard

I have a brief post today to share some preliminary work for a new Dungeon Master Series image I am starting this month! We have 10 of these in total so far (with a calendar of 12 planned for later this year) The previous three entries featured ever stranger and stranger monster encounters and this new one is no exception with a classic D&D Beholder playing as its central antagonist.    These scenes always start…

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Thumbnails to Find New Design Arrangements


Ron Lemen

March 18, 2024 - A job I'm currently working on requires several illustrations that involve alien architecture, of which there is no reference to look up.  To find unusual shapes, I have generated a few exercises using various mediums and surfaces to accommodate for the various ink media I am using for this round of discovery. This first image is ball point pen.  I found that a line tool was limiting my exploration at the moment and the compositions were all a little too usual, typical, and lacked shapes that feel alien, foreign to the eyes.     I broke out whatever markers I could find that still have some life in them, found some vellum and did this round.  While there are a few candidates, I still found I was heading in a direction that I was controlling…

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