Justin Gerard is an illustrator who has traveled the world in search of the perfect medium to paint in. He has not found it, but along the way he has met some fascinating people, seen some interesting places and had a chance to paint a lot of great subjects.
His work has been featured in Spectrum Fantastic Arts, Society of Illustrators and Expose. He enjoys good music, chocolate chip cookies and tank battles.
I love all of these! The last one really reminds me of Alphonse Mucha.
Lovely work – is the white used for the earth-tone book sketch a pastel pencil?
I'd agree with Danielle and add a second artist some elements remind me of, Windsor-Smith, one of my all time favourites.
I've written here before, and once again, thank you for this blog mates!
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This is Awesome! My personal favourite of “The Silmarillion” project.Love the wolf expresion. And the demonic statues add such deep atmosphere.
Dude, i do hope there's a book about this expo, i want to buy it! π Awesome work as always Justin!
I've been tracking all these Silmarillion posts and I have to say they are AMAZEBALLS! The colour and how you treat the illustration is very cool!
Justin this is amazing. I think that I'm growing to appreciate more the paintings you do with the watercolor over pencils, without digital. I mean, I love digital eye candy as much as the next guy, but it takes some serious concentration and effort to make these watercolor paintings with a limited palate stand out. And you are really making it happen.
I know you've been back and forth on the perfect media, but I think that watercolors are really your strong suit.
And the Mucha influence on the elf drawings is excellent!
-Will
Beautiful as always. I love all the detail in the first piece.
That first piece is killing me!! I,ve got to make a point of buying some of your prints.
Your conceptual and compositional skills are to be envied.
Justin,You certainly can take one there…right to the heart of the conflict-Wonderful!
I have no words to discribe how in love I am
In this case it was actually just prisms color white. I do love working with pastel pencil though.
Thanks for the feedback man. In the end I do find just straight up watercolors to be really rewarding. And yes… there is definitely some Mucha influence in there. And I hope there will be more of his influence in the future too. I feel like there is just so much to learn from his sense of composition and design.