Let's continue with three more design strategies for vignetting illustrations. The Form-Link Vignette In this approach, the figures a...

When you want to compose a picture on a white page, you can always place the whole scene inside a rectangular composition. But it’s often ...

In a previous post called “The Golden Hour,” I explained how rays from the setting sun change color as they travel through large volumes of ...

My son Dan, who is now a music major in college, spent a lot of time playing along with CDs when he was 10 or 11 years old. In this way he t...

Yesterday in Albany we attended the opening of an exhibit of natural history artwork at the New York State Museum called “ Focus On Nature ...

The current issue of ImagineFX Magazine features a special issue on how to create dinosaur art. Each Thursday, I've been sharing a few t...

On Wednesdays we've been playing a group sketch game called "Art By Committee," where I give you an an actual excerpt taken ou...

When we recently passed through Hampton, Virginia, we stopped at the hole-in-the-wall headquarters and museum of the Cousteau Society. In th...

I enjoyed meeting a lot of fellow artists and Gurney Journey readers a week ago at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Thanks again to...