Ex Astris Scientia — fanta-z: by James Gurney

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by James Gurney

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Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.

elodieunderglass

God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.

Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,

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the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…

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The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…

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And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?

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I feel like there is so much to learn from the way Gurney does his work - his blog is here http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com 

alchemyalice

Also he has a youtube channel, and it’s DELIGHTFUL:

itswalky

oh i thought maybe these were all from my childhood creationism books

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moonwyvern

Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.

elodieunderglass

God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.

Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,

image

the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…

image

The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…

image

And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?

image

I feel like there is so much to learn from the way Gurney does his work - his blog is here http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com 

sliceofpearpie

it is a delight to watch him paint !

for a handy print book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter has been recommended to me by several pro illustrators whose work relies on realist picturing with convincing deep space

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Pulp sci-fi illustration by Italian artist, Aldo Di Gennaro (b. 1938).

babyitaliano

This is probably the most culturally important thing I’ll ever seen in my lifetime if I’m being honest. I want this affixed over my mantle, embroidered into my denim, and emblazoned into my flesh so that generations to come may never forget this 1938 gem of an illustration. Put this on my gravestone and name my children after Alfo Di Gennaro. This is what it’s all about.

crabofdoom

Artist was obviously a leg man, but I have never seen a female alien love interest designed as THIS alien before. She’s uniquely hairy, bugged-eyed, lines would indicate at least a partial exoskeleton, she has escaped being saddled with the mammories that a non-mammal being would not have, yet she’s got it bad for Space Force Leatherhead and he is so into her. I can practically hear his prose of her cabochon eyes of nebula violet, glowing with the passion to know and be known, in the starlight. The green of her body turning more vivid as discovery (and carnal knowledge) consume her conscious mind.

To suggest a red-blooded, human man could love Greedo’s cousin? Desire her??

This is fantastic, in every sense. How many lives did this change forever?

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