Regular servings of inspiration for visual artists from the bestselling author of Dinotopia, Color & Light, and Imaginative Realism.
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Song in the Garden
Song in the Garden, from Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara, 2007.
I wrote a little poem to go with this painting:
'In a seed, a tree is hidden
That a raindrop can release.
Join me on this winding pathway.
All we have is just th...
What Are Animals Saying?
A wild gorilla sits down to a meal of water plants, and starts humming.
Eva Luef’s team recorded two western lowland gorilla groups in the Republic of Congo and found two different mealtime sounds. One was a steady, low tone. The other was...
Sketching Jimothy
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'Jimothy' is a wild raccoon with a congenital short spine syndrome.
This cute little guy gets around just fine in his Seattle neighborhood, making him both endearing and inspiring. His story went viral last month.
Here’s a little...
Light: Hard and Soft
Lighting designers and photographers are aware of how hard or soft the light is. What do they mean?
Hard light has sharp shadows
Hard light (sunlight)
The quality of “hardness” or “softness” of light results from how large the source...
Analog Animated Graphics
If you needed to animate your logo for a video, the standby method was to spend lots of money on high-tech digital motion graphics that will look fake and dated in five years.
Or you could make it yourself practically for free out of cardb...
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Author and illustrator of Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and the art instruction books Color and Light and Imaginative Realism.
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