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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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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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7 comments:
HAHA! I am from Singapore! I hope you do pop by Singapore Mr Gurney. Would love to see an exhibition on your works there! Congrats!
Well deserved. Ultimate compliment: I use it often in my illustration classes and had my copy stolen. I'm not worried though. I'll just keep an eye out for a student who makes leaps and bounds progress then I'll have my culprit.
The landscape one looks nice.
This is the book list I suggested for the students here:
Ernest Norling - Perspective Made Easy ISBN-13 978-0-486-40473-8 ISBN-10 0-486-40473-0
Stan Lee and John Buscema - How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way ISBN 0-907610-66-8
James Gurney - Imaginative Realism - How to Paint What Doesn't Exist ISBN-13: 9780740785504 ISBN-10: 0740785508
James Gurney - Color and Light - A Guide for the Realist Painter ISBN-13: 9780740797712 ISBN-10: 0740797719
and for a fifth - maybe "Drawing People" by Barbara Bradley, or "Figure Drawing without a Model" by Ron Tiner.
But so many great books are old and out of print, such as the whole How to Draw series from Studio.
Goat, I'd love to go to Singapore some day. I've heard so many great things about it.
Thanks, Bill. I'm not sure if your student deserves a medal or a warrant.
Don, what an honor to be on that list! What are the Studio "How to Draw" books? And where do you teach?
Congratulations! That is high praise indeed.
Your book definitely deserves to be up there, Mr. Gurney. Art and Fear is a worthy title too. I have a copy of it on my bookshelf.
I'm a bit disappointed though - I feel that the New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Dr. Betty Edwards should be on that list or at least get an honorable mention. That has not only good instruction on learning to draw, but some fascinating theories on the mind and how it relates to learning to draw.
Congrats James, and I couldn't agree more. What a great book you have there.
The landscape book they suggest is good, but I believe Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting is the bible of landscape painting books.
The other two books I would include are unfortunately out of print and both by Andrew Loomis: Creative Illustration and Figure Drawing for All It's Worth. I consistently go back to those and am constantly amazed that I learn something new every time I open them up.
I learned a lot about how to construct the figure from Buscema's How to Draw Comics, suggested by Don Cox, and sometimes think I should pick it up again, as my copy from the early 80s is long gone.
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