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Hedrigall posted:

I�ll be be the first to to mention Dinotopia

The books are marvellous. James Gurney is one of my favourite painters.

I implore anyone who cares about art to check out his excellent book Color And Light in which he uses paleo art (and some other fantasy art and landscape stuff) to teach you the art fundamentals of color and light. It�s probably my favourite book in my small art instruction library

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Realist-Painter-Gurney/dp/0740797719

Here�s a review showing many pages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCS5PqZcTRc

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll be tracking this down.
Dinotopia has been one of my favourite books for... uh... three decades now?

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 16:41

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Organza Quiz posted:

I grew up on Dinotopia and as soon as I got into needle felting I thought to myself one day I gotta make Bix:

I really want to make some of the others too but there are too many options to decide!

Bix! With the "careful listening" head tilt and everything!!

Hedrigall posted:

Beyond the amazing paleoart the books are filled with such good architecture and scenery porn

I love staring into all the paintings of, say, a cozy looking inn by a river at night time, or a warm sanctuary atop a snowy mountain, and imagine what it�s like to be there

And he designs all the buildings to accommodate both dinosaurs and humans, so even things like the doors are fascinating to look at

James Gurney is an absolute genius I tell you

Yep. He makes pictures you can live in. He is indeed an absolute genius.
My copy of dinotopia has faint scratch marks all over the page where the brachiosaurus is throwing people through the air for a game, because six year old me couldn't refrain from going "woosh" with my finger over the page...

# ¿ Dec 26, 2021 01:11

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exquisite tea posted:

It's fair to say that Dinotopia was probably the single most influential fictional work I read as a little kid, everything about my young imagination and aesthetics stemmed from that series. I would look at the illustrations for hours and imagine myself as if I were really there.

Same, same, same.
Plus, Dinotopia is a gateway drug to Art Noveau.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2022 02:51

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Ricardo Delgado did a comic series called Age Of Reptiles which was some of the best dino comics I've ever seen. It quite often had gigantic crowd scenes like this:

So good! I love how the herbivore zebra stripe dazzle-camo really works. And the oxpecker pterodactyls.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2022 12:40

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Well actually, in Dune it's mentioned that the Harkonnen fortune comes from "adroit manipulation of the whale fur market." So not quite a Harkonnen whale.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2023 06:16

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mystes posted:

They keep changing their mind about everything about spinosaurus so maybe

I'm waiting for the "aerial spinosaurus" theory.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2023 00:28

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I thought we were friends!

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 16:41

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Ricardo Delgado did a comic series called Age Of Reptiles which was some of the best dino comics I've ever seen. It quite often had gigantic crowd scenes like this:

HANG ON A SEC why is there a nude man with a knife garter in the left margin of the dinosaur panorama?

Tree Bucket has a new favorite as of 08:31 on Aug 25, 2023

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