Painting Feathered Dinosaurs with James Gurney
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Artist James Gurney shows how he painted three oil reconstructions of the feathered dinosaurs Anchiornis, Khaan, and Yutyrannus. The video shows research, thumbnails, preparatory sketches, and study from living birds and other analogues. Gurney's shares his illustration techniques, showing work in progress as he completes the rendering for his magazine illustration clients.
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This art first published in Ranger Rick Magazine in March 2017.
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Huh? Oh! Another Documentary. "I Think." You've out done yourself once again Mr. Gurney. I see your Illustrating another Yutyrannus. Only this one's having a dust bath. Not going stealing someone else's kill. Still, It's nice like you did in Tyrannosaurs. Um, Will this be out on DVD too? I was just asking since I'm a fan of one of the Great Paleoartists. Speaking of which, I'll send you a list of the other Great Paleoartists who did different but great Illustrations of the Dinosaurs like what you've done & what you did here.
Thanks, Dylan. I didn't shoot enough footage on these paintings to make a documentary, so everything I got is in this free YT video. Glad you enjoyed it.
Oh! Mr. Gurney! What a surprise. It's been a while since I replied nice comments & you responded back. Ahem! Well, Sorry to hear there's no enough footage for another Documentary. Again, The new Illustration of Yutyrannus looks pretty good. Just like the last one along with a trio of it's cousin Dilong. Well, I'll Email you nice messages some other time. One more thing, I trust you read & liked my Email message about the "Calla Edition" 3 days ago.
@@JamesGurney you should plug your book and any dvds u have in a short ad in your videos. just an idea!
I love this guy.
everybody loves gurney
researching process is incredible, now i know how the true master prepares to work on a painting
I admire and appreciate people who restore dinosaurs as real animals doing real animal behaviour, instead of the unreal restorations that depict dinosaurs battling and roaring at each other.
Ah sweet! Hard to find dinos doing casual things and accurately presented!
Right, we've had enough with the chasing Jeeps and biting heads off poor guys in the porta potty!!
I would love it if you updated Dinotopia, all of the books, with feathers and modern reconstructions of all the dinosaurs appearances. I know that a lot of people like the things that they grew up with in their childhood not to change, but I absolutely love Dinotopia, and it would be amazing to see that world with the understanding of dinosaurs that we have now
I've been having a lot of trouble making art recently but watching these videos has helped inspired my art and make me excited to try new techniques in painting. Thank you for the free videos :) You have always been my favorite artist
THANK YOU! This made my day James. Your movies are so well thought out and brilliantly filmed and edited, a real treat to watch. Cant wait for more. Thanks again. Joe
My son and I were patiently waiting for this one to be uploaded! :) again, another inspiring video and the beautiful work you do. This was very much worth the wait.
Your dinos are the best Mr.Gurney! :)
Your dinosaur series is my favorite by far. I'm absolutely fascinated by your process of building the maquette first and using that as a reference for lighting and pose, and the wealth of research and knowledge you put into your pieces. This is your most in depth one yet.
8:00 Yep, just a typical backyard bird.
Amazing work ! You're the uncle we all dreamed about ;)
Fabulous work--I love the way you put so much into the process to get believable lighting and detail. Thank you!
You are my absolute favourite dinosaur painter i love seeing this brings out my inner kid wanted to learn about those beautiful animals
I bought your two books and they gave me a lot of 'aha' moments. Seeing your process in video is another revelation. Thank you Mr. Gurney for sharing all your valuable experience. Greetings from Belgium.
I had not ever thought that will be a man capable to create a fantastic world recreating nature as you actually do your work is very inspiring
I learned so much from this video, from terminology to painting feathers!
This was fascinating, thank you for the detailed explanation!
I love your models, they have some much personality but are dead simple. Great work Gurney, thanks for sharing.
Honestly sometimes I cry because he’s so brilliant.
Genius truly. I hope we cross paths one day
I hope you never stop painting dinosaurs, really gorgeous!
I love watching these videos where you explain how you create your amazing dinosaur paintings. I have loved learning about dinosaurs since I was a kid and would try and draw them form a book I had.
You sir have this down to a science (LITERALLY) 💯🔥🔥🔥 and your techniques are truely amazing
I love the amount of effort put into these videos. I am glad people are finally starting to recognise you for the legend you are.
I LOVE your process! Getting a rough sculpt to get realistic lighting is genius, particularly when it's difficult to predict for high contrast plumage.
My new favorite dinosaur is that dust bath T-Rex type fella.
this was an absolute joy to watch! i particularly like how you tackled the backgrounds to imitate nature photographs. i'd never thought of it before but it adds an element of believability to your paintings and makes them feel so much more lifelike!
James Gurney has been my inspiration for a fantasized land called Ahmanzí I created. It's a tropical forest like area where tribes live with dinosaurs. Id love to put inspiration from real dinos and put a fantasy touch on it. I have recently created a feathered dino called a Cheiera. James Gurney has inspired me to study deeply the anatomy of dinos although I doubt I will ever reach the level and passion Gurney had.
This is the spirit which we call "craftsmanship" and "artisanship".
I simply can't get enough of you vids. So informative and fun. Thank you.
8:18 Your Fallout-styled mechanical gadget is interesting.
so freaking cool! thank you for being awesome :D
thx a lot for beeing so open and honest about your work process.
Nice! Very good how you just "eliminated" three dinosaurs with a few strokes of a green paint loaded brush!! Such awesome power an artist has, you know, moving mountains and such! Love these paintings and the reminder of my early days of painting wildlife, and making clay and card models of them for shadows and such as you did. Also painted them on paper or clear plastic and moved them around a blocked in background scene to see where they fit best In the composition. Good stuff!!
One of your best videos yet! I always love it when you do dinosaurs.
Draw, paint, sculpture, photography...what amazing process!! Love your work Sir ☺️. Greetings from Spain.
Very educational and inspiring! Great work all around. Thanks for this
Wow! Just wow! You are an amazing artist and it is so much fun to watch ANY of your videos. The dedication you put into everything is inspiring. Our family loved watching Dinotopia so thanks for that too!
Three great pieces James
I click "like" before the video done loading to start haha thanks Gurney
So inspiring. Beautuful illustrations.
Man!!! I love your videos!!!
You are the best Mr. Gurney! Un ARTIST
nelson adolfo hurtado ordoñez lmao. Un changes the whole meaning of your comment.
Oh, that's right ...a typo...SORRY ! AN ARTIST 👨🏻🎨
amazing work!
going the extra mile with the model was seriously top notch
Outstanding work and presentation, as always!
yeah you're my hero. thanks for getting kid-me into dinosaurs AND art
Thanks for making these. It's so great to observe your process, I like the maquetts especially.
You are such an inspiration James ❤️
Thank you so much, this was very helpful! and Dinotopia is also a really great example of your great paintings, thank you for everything!
The Yutyrannus is great!
I really love seeing you creative process it definitely reminds me to take my time, do several put in the work and see it from all perspectives .... and to not be afraid to do several different renditions before committing to a final piece
Thank you for sharing! It's so interesting and encouraging to see your work and your process!!
The dust bath dino is my favorite! Love the longer format of the video :D
Riveting! So much excellent information. Thank you for sharing your techniques for study and execution. Also, loved your comments around 4:19 (Dr Seuss character eyes!). Refreshing to know I'm not the only one who has to repeatedly erase sometimes to get something right. I feel inspired.
Right, and about revisions; good to remember YOU own the painting,.. not the other way around!!
MASTERFUL WORK!!!
Love the way you say "maquette".
This guy is a master of world building right up there with some of the more popular fantasy authors.
Generally I hold James Gurney very dear ever since my childhood with Dinotopia, I got into sculpting because of Imaginary Realism, to make maquettes - but the part around 2:50 about Sculpey as a base and something else on top was a big, very big "WAIT WHAT" moment.
I've sculpted in detail, extreme detail, and Sculpey allows for all of it, while the maquette shown at that point...well, it's always quite educational for me to see how little is needed to serve its purpose, but that's the point: Compared to what you can do with Sculpey, that isn't even in the general ballpark of "detail".
This really made me wonder whether I might have surpassed my idol, though only the regard of having my Sculpey in a better shape or knowing how to work with it better. Generally, if anything allows for greater detail than Sculpey, it means something's wrong with your Sculpey.
I should be a sales agent for them I guess...
Absolutely stunning work!
Thank you Mr Gurney for this another video ! Best Likes/Views ratio on youtube so far :D
I like this art Mr.Gurney I am very shocked at the level or detail
You are my favourite artist since high shcool
Hope it's okay to leave a note here. The Met has opened what looks to be fascinating information and research on the works of Hercules Segers. For his time and they say very little travel had quite an imagination. If you and your family have time for the exhibit I hope they allow you all to make a video on it.
Just incredible
Absolutely amazing! Great!
Can't I just like this video twice?
You are simply an amazing person!
Amazing as always! Thank you!
Fantastic! I never get tired of watching you create these paintings. I noticed at least one comment (on Facebook I think it was) from someone who said something like "birds didn't come from dinosaurs; God made birds all by themselves" , and I know one ornithologist (Kimball Garrett at the LA Natural History Museum) that pooh-poohs the idea as nonsense. But I have found the evidence too compelling and increasingly pervasive to ignore. Indeed, I only have to observe the ground-scurrying behavior of California Towhees or Northern Mockingbirds to convince me that birds evolved from reptilian dinosaurs; it is definitely lizard-like.
just wow!! amazing artworks!
You sir have a subscriber!
Beautiful work! I'm taking noted for my own artwork. one question tho: where did khaan's second-finger-feathers go?
this is passion
Amazing work, yet again :)
thanks I learn so much in which way to improviseren my own painting.
Great tutorial, James! Unfortunately, I don’t use oil paints anymore. In the beginning, I discovered, almost right away that I couldn’t breathe around the turpentine or linseed oil. One of those. I only ever painted one oil painting, it was my only one,…ever. I don’t miss it. I’d rather breathe, tbh.
Its so different than want Im focused on for the last 8 years, that Ive forgotten how life was without bullshit such as social demands and other nonsense that lingers in a teenager's head. You can be fine without the need of other's approval is what Im learning at the moment and somehow people like Gurney and older people show tranquillity in one's self. Hope that the spelling is not shit which it probably is.
Your videos always inspire me to start painting i just need to find the time.
This was pretty rad
These paintings are awesome!
Also thank you so much for pronouncing Bokeh correctly...
I Love your painting
I've never been so glad to have followed the recommendation of a GG comment
Game grumps?
Not to mention the new one’s being discovered!!!
I enjoy watch that and also lending a lot.
James, as usual amazing. Have you considered Blender for trying modelling and lighting ideas? It gives you a lot of freedom and flexibility. I know it is not the real thing but with your experience, I am sure you can close the gap.
I own your books. You certainly know how to teach without unnecessarily fluff. Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE your paleoart videos! Also, do you have any advice for aspiring paleoartists? I think I want to make a living as a paleoartist when I am older. I'm just not sure how...
I think it's important to understand the anatomy of dinosaurs, while also studying the morphology and behavior of living birds and other analogous animals.
I think it's important to study the fossils and read lots of books on dinosaurs, but it's equally important to know all you can about living animals, and how they move and behave. Watch birds and mammals and draw them all you can. It will help your paleoart immensely.
@@JamesGurney Thank you so much for the advice. I'm definetly going to use it.
Wouldn't it be cool if someone started making realistic (inexpensive) models of (At least) featherd dinosaurs. So instead of pink flamingos or Canada geese on your front lawn, you could have dinosaurs. Not T- Rex size, but perhaps Velociraptors size.
People do metal sculptures of them, some huge ones, seen in some garden stores here in AZ. Not inexpensive though or I'd get one or two. Plastic model assembly kits of dinosaurs are available on Amazon; but they are small. But would be good for making paintings from them.
I think part of drawing dinosaurs is like capturing something that was real but capturing it using your imagination. That's why people use birds as reference, because they were so similiar yet you can still make things accurate while using your imagination to do so.
Great news update folks, I recently found some, what appear to be half scale sized 'raptors at a garden shop near me. They are about 7-8 feet long and crouching to about 4-5 feet tall. All welded sheet metal construction and really so accurate looking! Best part is they are only 900 bucks each!!! My wife even gave me permission to get one! :D
man your cool!
Woah! Cool
do you receive interns? gosshhh i am in awe of your works
I've always wondered what steps the process of painting feathered dinos typically includes :D the joke aside, very professional work!
Please do more dinosaurs!
I Love dinosaurs
Genius!
Could you explain your process of simplification of forms?
that was a lot of work dude wooow
Your work is always inspiring but (and you've probably heard this umpteen times by now) those wrist wings ; n ;
Yeah, but it's soooo beautifully done that it's easier to ignore xD
I frikin love his painting style :D
@Aakash Mandava The wings in his paintings should extend from the 2nd finger, but the feathers are painted hanging off its wrists.
@@alexx.476 Oh, I see. I didn't know that but I thought it looked weird.
U inspire me
😢😢😢😢🥺🥺🥺it makes me to cry
An inquiry, what do you use the spray adhesive for?