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Learn & Master Painting is the best home instruction course available to learn to paint with oils and acrylics. Master artist, Gayle Levee, has designed interactive lessons to provide you with a solid, comprehensive foundation for your own artwork. Learn & Master Painting consists of 20 professionally produced DVDs, 3 Music CDs (to listen to while you paint), a thorough Lesson Book with supplemental information, and access to a free online student support site. It is the only instructional package you ll ever need on your journey toward painting mastery and to seeing the world through the eyes of an artist.

Learn how to draw both traditionally and digitally. Work along with Matt as he methodically renders each part of this detailed drawing. This is a DVD that will really teach you how to draw with skill and confidence. Matt is providing many extras including two downloadable PDF's of cast photo reference to go with this DVD box set. Also included is a downloadable value scale along with multiple links to many resources used for the creation of this DVD. This DVD is for artists who are looking for an educational DVD that leaves no part out. You see the process from start to finish. These four DVDs total over 7 hours! This is an instructional DVD Set that encourages you to work along with the artist every step of the way.

In this Drawing Tip of the Week Matt will show you how he layers objects in a landscape drawing. He also gets into how and why he blocks in tone before he renders out detail. Matt is currently in the midst of completing his Composition Through Landscape Tutorials which will will be put onto DVD.

Our instructional methods are compiled from over twelve years of industry experience working and teaching in the entertainment industry. We have narrowed down all the essential elements required for one to succeed in this competitive field. The structure we have developed is streamlined, focused, and to the point. It is important to stress the fact that we are not an art school. Our core focus is in design and how to transform students into professionals upon graduation. Not only will they understand how to draw and design, but they will also gain the right attitude and self-confidence necessary for success. We cater to both professionals looking to further their skills and to students who want to break into the entertainment industry. Our courses cover a wide range of design topics such as video games, feature films, theme park designs, consumer products, toys, TV commercials, and set designs. We focus heavily on the importance of fundamental skills and the proper ways to develop your design abilities. Our aim is to mold you into an elite designer with a broad range of skills and graduate with a top notch portfolio.

Sprinkle lifelike surface effects into your watercolors using salt. In this DVD workshop, Judy Morris adds crackling, crumbling texture to large washes to capture the rustic feel of Tuscan architecture.
Judy has developed predictable methods by systematically studying combinations of pigment, paper and salt. You'll benefit from her mastery of materials as you discover the effects of crystal size, pigment opacity, and paint consistency in a series of demos.

With this drawing instruction DVD you will learn to draw as David N. Kitler shows you how to us basic shapes, locate important value shifts, understand the role of different pencil grades to create depth, locate and accurately plot objects on a page, and properly position the parts of any object, be it animal or plant, to relate to the whole.

Drawing portraits is generally something that most people assume one must be born with a talent for. Sure there are those for whom portait drawing is a God-given talent, but everyone no matter what their 'talent' level must study and acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to grow and develop as an artist.

Contrary to popular myth, most artists are not born with the innate ability or skill to draw. Even those that do seem to possess some mystical talent to draw what they see before them without formal art school training have generally been drawing for years, sketching and doodling away in their spare hours. The trouble with the self-taught artist, however, is that many years are lost re-inventing the wheel when they could instead be taught the fundamentals of drawing in only a few months.

Learn all the strokes necessary to make beautiful dagger style striping designs. This video includes, paletting techniques, how to roll the brush, how to pinstripe a circle, painting without a grid, asymmetrical and symmetrical designs, and tons more.

Tom Baxa's paintings are known for their energy and dramatic feel. His characters are powerfully gruesome and crackle with an "in-your-face" threat that is menacing and captivating at the same time. This kind of tension and drama is achieved through various design and color choices. In this DVD, you can watch Baxa create an oil painting from a prepared sketch as he discusses the key elements that create drama and action in his work. His lecture focuses on composition, lighting, color, character design, energy of stroke and more, as well as a discussion of his favorite materials and his painting techniques.

Michael Casey - illustrator with 30 years experience and working airbrush. Now he shows you his cunning stunts and special effects, accumulated over the years. In this video you will see: how to create a texture of stone carved with a pattern in it, how to make a "splash" - in several different ways how to work with a knife to create a glare, how to draw a space scene - stars, nebulae and flash, how to draw realistic clouds, as make patterns with a rubber adhesive, how to draw the texture of wood, how to paint metal, how to make different patterns with the texture of paper, as do the "underwater" pattern, how to draw a crocodile, how to paint fur and feathers, to create a texture like an orange peel, as draw hair, and much, much more ...

The Structure of Man 5 DVD (227 Lessons) - From Invention to Complete Human Skeleton, Muscles of Human Head, Neck, Torso, Arms, Muscles of Hand, Pelvis, legs, Foot, Final lesson, Gesture Drawing, Figure Sketching Process , Realistic Rendering, Creation Process of Frankenstein, Advance Concepts - Includes Advance Drawing System, Ratios for Front and Back, Proportions, Female Ratios, Advance Head Study - Head Ratios, Emotions

This set includes a series of works of the best digital artists from around the world, and many lessons to these works. A wide variety of popular subjects are covered from aliens, creatures and humans through to robots, interiors, architecture, transportation, cityscapes and natural environments. This series will be a good textbook for professionals and amateurs alike 2D/3D graphics.

"The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE and the Changing Face of Comics" tells the story of one of the most successful journeys in independent comics. In his acclaimed graphic novel BONE, described as "Bugs Bunny meets The Lord of The Rings," Jeff Smith set out to write and draw the kind of book he had always dreamed of reading. Inspired by the work of Walt Kelly, Carl Barks and others, Jeff's dream of telling a spellbinding adventure story with wall-to-wall humor and brilliant drawing began in the earliest imaginings of his childhood. "The Cartoonist" takes us down that road with Jeff and his characters, through his early years, college comic strips, detours into animation and attempted syndication, and finally toward the decision to self-publish.

Save yourself hours of frustration common to learning a new medium. In this DVD workshop, Craig Nelson presents his simple method for still life. You’ll develop foundation skills, create a path for improvement, and even save money at the art store. ...

In this DVD, comic book artist Alvin Lee explores the creation of two sequential comic book pages from script to finished pencils. He begins by dissecting the script through rough thumbnails, evaluating the pros and cons of each. He then lays out the two pages, discussing the importance of storytelling, character placement and readability in a sequential comic book layout. Next, Alvin shows how to prepare the layouts for light-boxing and sets up the final pages. He completes the demonstration discussing his pencilling techniques as he finishes the pencils with his own unique anime/manga influenced style.

David Finch began his comic book career at the age of 22 at Top Cow Productions, part of Image Comics. There he created Ascension and Aphrodite IX, both of which were top sellers in the business, with Aphrodite IX debuting as the number one comic book in the industry. In 2001 he made the move to Marvel comics where his catalog of work included Call of Duty, Ultimate X-Men, Avengers Disassembled and The New Avengers. His run on Moon Knight skyrocketed this title into the main Marvel universe and landed him a top-five book which sold more than five times the title's previous release.

A complete demonstration of the process of working with miniatures from scratch. Preparation for assembly, assembly, adjustment of castings through a "green fodder" priming, painting, work on the stand, tricks, and technology. Very useful for reference, especially since this movie have been looking for.

In this first DVD of a series, Cecil will demonstrate how he quickly produces various design options using traditional drawing tools such as markers, ink pens and mechanical pencil. Cecil will guide you through more than eight environment production sketches describing how he creates various drawing concepts to support creative leads and a production team on a daily basis.
He will begin with concepting the main fortress buildings for a game level idea, continue with rough thumbnailing of the organic building profile, and also create a hi-level production vista shot of a city concept using pencil. Street angle environment layout and futuristic design are explored as well. Learn how Cecil establishes perspective layout, filling it with architectural details, as well as how he designs the surface of the abstract shapes he initially starts with.

Five videos reveal the secrets of the masters.
King of Skulls, Rich Evans demonstrates the technique of execution drawing on bits and pieces of large-scale vehicle.
The whole process of sanding and polishing to matting and mounting.
The study of processes overlapping masks, using stencils, painting shadows, living tissues, the projection of the figure, drawing the pattern and skull frihendom, the combination of parts of the future masterpiece.