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Life Lessons from Dinosaurs
Art from Dinotopia plus whimsical wisdom
James Gurney
This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums.
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July
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- Live Action Role Playing
- Menzel and Photography
- Menzel the Sketcher
- Menzel Book Now Available
- Paramount Lighting
- Guinea Fowl and Donkeys
- Ten Tips for Better Brushstrokes
- Norman Teeling Painting on Location
- Splitting Color Illusion
- Joe Derrane (1930-2016)
- Reminder: Food Truck Challenge
- Pencil Accents
- Fine Art and Illustration
- Gender Contrasts
- Jason Morgan reviews Imaginative Realism
- Physiognomy: Comparing People to Animals
- Plein-Air Portraiture in International Artist
- Sunset at the Supermarket
- How Movement Aids Face Recognition
- Lovell Book Announced
- Painting a Complex Subject in Watercolor
- Gouache Materials List
- Book Review: Sorolla and the Paris Years
- Comparing Opaque and Transparent Painting
- My Days Doing Atari Box Art
- New Challenge: Food Trucks
- Bridge at Lac Spruce
- Speed Photoshop Battle
- Teaching Concepting in the Wild
- Wing's Noodles
- Oleg's Portrait
- Montréal Has Monsters!
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James Gurney
PO Box 693
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
or by email:
gurneyjourney (at) gmail.com
Sorry, I can't give personal art advice or portfolio reviews. If you can, it's best to ask art questions in the blog comments.
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However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission.
3 comments:
As always, great sketches. I was familiar with the Heads Down Tribe playing Pokemon Go, but the word LARPING is new to me. Little did I know in 1955 as my friends and I wore our coonskin caps and refought Davy Crockett's battle at the Alamo -- a process played out with elaborate forts and spanning a few afternoons -- that we were LARPING.
Interesting studies as always.
I was just reading about action poses and focusing on the mental image on your 1980s book, plenty of useful information!
Do you recommend on using the scribble method to train your memory (as it's quick), or any of the mentioned ones is fine?
Perhaps Menzel, would he live today, would have ordered those P0kemon folks to keep their postures a bit longer.
Maybe not:-)
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