![]() ![]() ![]() I left school for the summer and never came back. I wanted to dissect cadavers! I wanted to make pictures that told stories! The emphasis was on product design, abstraction, and “concept” illustration, whatever that meant. It was shiny and corporate and minimalist. ![]() I had read old books about the French Academy, and I somehow imagined art school would be this hushed atmosphere with high ceilings and north windows and plaster casts of Greek gods, with the walls covered with academic studies. So I packed up all of my belongings into a tiny car and headed down to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, never having seen the place. I majored in archeology, as I always found it fascinating, and though I graduated with an archeology degree, I always wanted to be an illustrator. By the time I was in high school, I had learned how to do hand-lettering and made my very first income by designing wedding invitations.Īfter high school, I attended college at UC Berkeley. I’ve loved drawing since I was a kid and taught myself drawing by reading books by my child heroes, Norman Rockwell and Howard Pyle. My name is James Gurney, and I was born in Glendale, California and raised in Palo Alto. ![]()
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