I'm not sure I would have understood the concept of a career path when I was at a young age, but as I say, I tried everything when I was in grade school: sculpting, model making, drawing, lettering, and painting. Did you know from a young age that art was going to be your career path? I made my own kites and electric-powered tugboats and hand puppets, all based on how-to books that I checked out of the library.
If you liked movies, you grabbed the 8mm movie camera and made your own animation or action flick. No helicopter parents: if you wanted to make a kite, you had to rip the kite sticks from spruce on the table saw, and if you wanted a metal toy car, you had to make a lost wax lead casting. My dad was a mechanical engineer and inventor, and I grew up in a house with a big workshop and a lot of tools. I'm the youngest of a family of five kids, and we didn't go to toy stores, and it was rare for us to go to movies. I didn't think of myself as particularly creative.
Would you consider yourself someone who has always been creative? I am proud to have had the opportunity to do this short interview with James, he is a hard working artist and I appreciate that he took the time to answer these questions via email. The creator of Dinotopia is James Gurney, an author and illustrator first starting his career as a background painter for the animated film “ Fire and Ice” (1983) in the same period he coauthored the book “ The Artist’s Guide to Sketching.” In 1992, James published his first book in the Dinotopia series, “A Land Apart from Time”, and subsequently wrote and illustrated three more installments “The World Beneath”, “First Flight”, and “Journey to Chandara.” James has also produced several excellent painting books “Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist”, and “ Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter.” Both of which are based off of his blog Gurney Journey. If you were a kid growing up in the 1990s or early 2000s, you may very likely have had the chance of reading a book called: “ Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time.” This book no doubt holds a special place in the heart of every child whom has read it, whether it was the captivating art, engaging story, or charismatic characters, Dinotopia opened the minds of children to an imaginary world unlike any seen before. “Kosmoceratops” published in Scientific American magazine
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