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Imaginative realism: how to paint what doesn't exist
Imaginative realism: how to paint what doesn't exist
Author
Gurney, James, 1958-
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Pub
Publication Date
©2009
Language
English
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Montserrat Writing and Visual Narratives
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Introduction
Tradition:
Tradition of imaginative painting
Art in the twentieth century
Copies from the masters
Studio:
Tables, easels, and lights
Helpful equipment
Drawing media
Painting media
Preliminary Sketches:
Games to loosen up
Thumbnail sketches
Storyboards
Color experiments
Charcoal comprehensive
Corrections and tracings
Eye level
Perspective grid
Sticking with it
History And Archeology:
Telling a story
Early humans
Close or far view
Information and atmosphere
People:
Mirror studies
Tone paper studies
Acting in character
Photographing models
Professional models
Head Marquette's
Costumes
Characters in settings
Managing detail
Dinosaurs:
Digging dinosaurs
Dinosaurs in their environment
Unusual behaviors
Multiple Marquette's
Setting up a tableau
Homemade miniatures
Wings and capes
2D-to-3D Marquette
Coloration
Creatures And Aliens:
Creature Marquette's
Skeleton model
Animal characters
Half-human
From model to mermaid
Cyborgs
Architecture:
Four steps to build a city
Visualizing waterfall city
Architectural Marquette's
Lighting the Marquette
Clay and stone
Vehicles:
Start with the familiar
Exaggeration
Sketchbook as springboard
Insect vehicles
Walking vehicles
Alternate history
Lived-in future
Engineering
Scrap file
Plein-Air Studies:
On-location drawing
Weird and wonderful
Fact into fantasy
Museums and zoos
Orientalism
Composition:
Two values
Silhouette
Chiaroscuro
Shapewelding
Counterchange
Windmill principle
Eye tracking
Heatmaps
Spokewheeling
Clustering
Flagging the head
Vignetting
Repose and action
Repoussoir
Cutaway views
Aerial views
Maps
Procedure:
Step by step
Grounds, mediums, and techniques
Texture and impasto
Combining the elements
Careers:
Paperback covers
Movie design
Video game design
Toy design
Theme park design
Afterword
Glossary
Recommended reading
Works by and about James Gurney
Image credits
About the author
Index.
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Subjects
Subjects
Painting
Painting -- Technique
Realism in art
Technique
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ISBN
9780740785504
UPC
050837265172
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