Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective. The podcast about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker. I'm Lee White. And I'm Will Terry. And all three of us are professional illustrators. We've all worked for all the major publishers in the business. Together we published somewhere around 75 children's books,

and we've all taught illustration at university art schools.

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Each week we come at you guys with fantastic illustrator interviews

or questions from people just like you.

Sometimes we agree, sometimes we argue,

but each time you learn something, Brant's Banking, New.

Brantz Bank of New, today we have James Gurney visiting us in the three-point

perspective studios here, actually online. It's an old friend of ours, hanging out with

him quite a bit. He's, you know, he doesn't need an introduction, but if you don't know who he is, he's the creator

of Dinotopia, the Dinotopia book series, millions of books in circulation.

He is a National Geographic illustrator, book cover illustrator, and the reason he's joining

us today is he just recently

came out with a book called The Artist's Guide to Sketching, which is actually a reprint from a book

he published 40 years ago as a young 20-something. And we'll jump right into the story about how

that book came about. But it's now been remastered, it's been

expanded. And it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a rally cry to this generation about going outside,

experiencing life, and recording it in your sketchbook. And, and so do check that out.

And let's jump into the interview.

Let's get into what you're doing here, James.

Okay.

We, you have a book that just came out.

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