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The Round Table
Gurney Journey · 21:29 02 Oct 2023
Arthur Denison calls a meeting in Waterfall City. At the Round Table, the humans sit on high chairs to be at the level of the dinosaurs.Oil illustration from the book Dinotopia: The World Be… Read More
Skybax Toy Prototypes
Gurney Journey · 13:49 13 Sep 2023
Would giant pterosaurs with saddles make cool toys? I did these marker sketches to explore some of the possibilities.This one-of-a-kind toy prototype was made by Hasbro in 1997, part of a pr… Read More
Inside Ebulon
Gurney Journey · 15:01 01 Sep 2023
What happens inside the mysterious stone monuments of Ebulon? They're hollowed out inside, with a library, kitchen, and privy. It's the headquarters of the skybax riders who practi… Read More
Portrait Of Robert Bakker
Gurney Journey · 11:00 16 Aug 2023
I did this portrait of paleontologist Robert Bakker to illustrate an article in a science magazine using oil wash over pencil.Bakker has been a proponent of the hypothesis that dinosaurs we… Read More
Into The Golden Realm
Gurney Journey · 20:16 16 Jun 2023
Usually colors get cooler as they recede. When you reverse that principle (as sometimes happens in nature), it looks weird and magical.Into the Golden Realm, from Dinotopia: Journey to Chan… Read More
Entrance To The World Beneath
Gurney Journey · 16:54 09 Jun 2023
Arthur Denison pilots his submersible toward the sunken entrance to the World Beneath. At right a flock of ammonoids drifts toward shipwrecks of galleons. The animals on the left are eurypte… Read More
Digital Bioacoustics
Gurney Journey · 16:53 04 Jun 2023
Animals are able to communicate in the realm of sound with much more complexity and nuance than scientists had suspected.It turns out that animals are able to communicate in the realm of sou… Read More
'How Did You Get Started?'
Gurney Journey · 19:49 14 Apr 2023
Arthur Denison helps a young Giganotosaurus with a stuck foot, oil illustration from Dinotopia: The World Beneath.An editor of Ranger Rick Magazine asked: "Were you crazy about dinosaur… Read More
Bix Maquette
Gurney Journey · 21:00 04 Apr 2023
This maquette of the Protoceratops named Bix in Dinotopia was sculpted by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The sculpt is about 36 inches long, cast in resin from a clay original. It ha… Read More
How To Play Bucktail
Gurney Journey · 15:54 29 Nov 2022
To play bucktail, a Stegosaurus stands between two large mounds of straw. Each player in turn climbs on the tail and holds onto the spikes. The tail begins to wag back and forth un… Read More
Lightbox Schedule
Gurney Journey · 14:50 06 Oct 2022
For those of you attending Lightbox Expo in Pasadena, CA next week, I'll be there. I'll be doing two scheduled presentations.1. Keynote Presentation, IMAGINATIVE REALISM: CLASSICAL HOW-TOSAT… Read More
Sketches For Dinosaur Parade
Gurney Journey · 13:15 06 Sep 2022
I did a lot of sketches before painting "Dinosaur Parade."I interpreted the scene in a variety of techniques: red chalk & charcoal, pencil & wash, markers, and oil.What would the sc… Read More
Gurney Journey · 19:37 05 Jul 2022
View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gurney (@jamesgurneyart) Green Man, from Dinotopia: The World Beneath Read More
Skimmers In Poseidos
Gurney Journey · 14:14 26 Jun 2022
Skimmers are floating vehicles based on the design of trilobites and other Cambrian and Permian arthropods. I originally produced this small painting as a concept for a virtual-reality ride… Read More
Color Wheel Masking Basics
Gurney Journey · 09:35 05 May 2022
Color wheel masking helps you create new color schemes that feel complete but are really limited.  The mask reveals only the colors we want in the picture and leaves out the colors that… Read More
Dinosaur Expressions
Gurney Journey · 13:10 28 Mar 2022
Cody asks: "Did you give your dinosaurs facial expressions?"Answer: Yes, I tried that idea in Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. I suspect dinosaurs didn't have very mobile faces, so instead of… Read More
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