“The Artist’s Guide to Sketching”

The new, expanded and updated edition is coming out February 25, 2025.

A bold new edition of the groundbreaking 1982 book by two of America's most prominent visual artists, James Gurney (Dinotopia, Color and Light), and Thomas Kinkade, freshly updated with a new introduction, archival photographs, and illuminating text to guide a new generation of illustrators. 

Since its release in 1982, “The Artist’s Guide to Sketching” has become a classic art guide for students and laypeople around the world. The book includes instruction and artwork by James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade—two students who would go on to fame with Dinotopia (Gurney) and as the “Painter of Light” (Kinkade).

This new edition restores the classic text with newly photographed original artwork printed in color and a bonus section chronicling the book’s origins and the friendship, drawing on unpublished artwork from Gurney and the Kinkade family estate.