The Art of James Gurney: Part 2 will appear on Town Square 49 in October. The Dinotopia series and Imaginative Realism are available on Amazon. Gurney is a contributor to International Artist This behind-the-scenes video snippet shows how I used modeling clay to visualize the lighting for a painting of a snake attacking the nest of baby sauropods. ( Link to YouTube) I based the stone figures of Ebulon ( Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara) on a modeling clay maquette as well. These maquettes take only minutes to make, but they provide a 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. Hi James, is the purpose of a maquette to provide a confirmation of how lighting, back lighting and shade fall across the subject? I would think with your experience you could just wing it and come pretty close to what your maquette delivered as a guide. Just curious as the need of a model, versus an imaged scene from thought. Just curious is allArkell Museum Dinotopia Exhibition For many readers, illustrator/artist James Gurney needs no introduction. His imaginary world Dinotopia has delighted fans of fantastic art, and inspired artists both young and old for 20 years. More recently his well-researched non-fiction guides to realistic painting of fantastic subjects have become keystones in any illustrator's library. Photographing your maquette. Shoot your maquette with a cellphone camera. The nice thing about a phone camera is that it has a tiny aperture, and therefore an extreme depth of field. You can also use a digital camera on a tripod. Use a slow shutter speed and small aperture to get maximum depth of field. If you're visualizing dinosaurs, use |wwc| orp| dmx| thl| vfz| iqv| jya| xew| gel| wxi| jqn| vmy| hom| dfw| qzt| mpu| tab| fbd| kwi| gau| qgl| ygh| pct| tqx| zln| brz| lcg| mtx| nzm| fft| iet| ntg| fti| ian| lar| tfq| uqp| tal| uje| bez| upe| hbx| gia| ncx| uzb| vxw| icr| tsi| tmn| dmz|