Use real-life references whenever possible: adapt plein-air sketches to fantasyscapes base your original creatures on mixtures of real animals and people, giving them a solid core of anatomy which is believable create maquettes and lifecasts – either temporary or long-term use – in order to get your lighting and composition as accurate as possible. The main idea of this book is as follows: in order to paint the fantastic, you must first start with the mundane. Although that seems like a silly thing to place importance on, once an idea is given a description it is easier to focus on it with intention and purpose and therefore to apply it when in the studio. I believe that for me personally, I loved this book because it provided a new perspective for me, and also put concepts I’d already been practicing into words. This is a great book for getting your imagination going, and also for breaking a painter out of the studio and into hands-on research and reenactment. Imaginative Realism is a wonderful tool for any artist seeking a scientific method by which to go about the creative process. Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist by James Gurney, much like The Artist’s Guide to Sketching which he co-authored with “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade, is not really a “how to” book although it is a shade more instructional than Sketching.
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