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.
Dear Justin, You are annoyingly good! Seriously- as I'm sure many others here will echo, this is a lovely concept masterfully executed. I wouldn't normally post just to say those things only I also felt compelled to say how great is is that you should share your process like this. It's a great example of how following through on strong fundementals can bring a vision to life. Inspiring and much appreciated. Looking forward to seeing the final.
I started doing sketches on toned paper last year, and while I love the depth I can get using the paper as the midground, I've found I have a hard time translating those sketches to full-color since the mood totally changes from whatever the initial feeling was on the toned paper… do you ever have the problem?
David PalumboonGlaze 2.0This new version claims to have less artifacts, which I'm interested to try out. The program is slow if you run it from the cpu, but if you download t…
David PalumboonGlaze 2.0not exactly. It alters the image in a way that doesn't look very different to us, but is very confusing for training models. To say it adds static imp…
Robert CosgroveonThe 2024 Society of Illustrators Hall of FameVery pleased to learn of Greg Manchess's induction into the Hall of Fame. Still lusting for a high production retrospective collection of his work, ho…
Dear Justin,
You are annoyingly good!
Seriously- as I'm sure many others here will echo, this is a lovely concept masterfully executed. I wouldn't normally post just to say those things only I also felt compelled to say how great is is that you should share your process like this. It's a great example of how following through on strong fundementals can bring a vision to life. Inspiring and much appreciated. Looking forward to seeing the final.
Hey Justin!
That is looking amazing! I can't wait to see the final.
what a wonderful sketches . Enjoy me eyes 😀
The little colour sketch you did already looked finished to me. I can't imagine what the real finished one will look like.
i agree with CK. I really would love to make my drawing look so effortless and incisive as yours. looking forward your courses at lamppostguild!
Magical!
Love the contrast between the wizard's expression and the kids'.
Best,
Aaron
Beautiful! The linework is so delicate and perfect for the children, and yet the dragon still looks like a bad-ass dragon.
Your drawings on the brown paper inspired me to purchase myself some more Conté pencils and new EarthBound books.
I started doing sketches on toned paper last year, and while I love the depth I can get using the paper as the midground, I've found I have a hard time translating those sketches to full-color since the mood totally changes from whatever the initial feeling was on the toned paper… do you ever have the problem?
Hi Justin,
I just had to share my reaction which was, quote, “Woaaah!”, unquote. Seriously.
Your sketches are amazing, as always. Love the wizard's expression 🙂
Can't wait to see the finished painting!
What pencils are you using for these awesome sketches? The color just seems really perfectly balanced to the tone of the paper.
Dr Mr Gerard,
I love your work. I hate that I didn't do it.
This is going to turn out magical. Beautiful feel with the curved horizon and cool/warm theme. Make it BIG! 😉
Just viewed the new post: http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/2013/01/wizards-apprentice.html
and then it brought me here…then i was amazed even more. Loving the work you do!