Drawing Technique Videos
DVD - DRAW with CONFIDENCE: From Basic to Brilliant with David N. Kitler
Learn to Draw with Confidence
In this Creative Catalyst drawing instructional DVD workshop, David N. Kitler reveals his straightforward method for observing and conveying the information critical to successful drawing. You will learn his process for capturing accurate likenesses in the wild or in the studio. This educational video workshop is for artists with beginner to intermediate skills.
DRAW with CONFIDENCE: From Basic to Brilliant
David N. Kitler teaches you to see basic shapes, locate important value shifts, understand the role of different pencil grades, create depth, locate and accurately plot objects on a page and properly position the parts of any object, be it animal or plant, to the whole. David combines these skills to help you develop a center of interest and to lead the viewer’s eye around your composition.
David reviews basic concepts and then demonstrates the entire process by completing a life-like, fully textured drawing of a ground squirrel. David is a wildlife artist internationally known for his accuracy to the subjects he draws and paints.
2 hr 36 min.
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DVD Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Seven Lessons
Learn to Draw on the Right Side of the Brain with Betty Edwards
If you want to learn how to draw... if you want to draw better... if you teach drawing... or if you want to enhance your creativity, this two-hour drawing instruction DVD is for you.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Seven Lessons
We are delighted to carry this drawing instruction DVD workshop by Dr. Betty Edwards. The two hour workshop is divided into seven lessons, designed for you to study in sequence. Edwards begins by briefly introducing the theory upon which her process is built. She then presents the logic for each class and gives a brief demonstration. Some drawing classes, like “blind contour drawing”, integrate parts of the brain needed for successful drawing skills. The process works for students at all skill levels.
The lessons are designed for everyone, including people who believe they cannot draw or think they could never learn to draw. We highly recommend this drawing instruction DVD for people just starting out for a very solid grounding to further development.
120 min.
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Drawing - Drawing with Pastel & Charcoal by Craig Nelson
Learn drawing with pastel and charcoal with Craig Nelson
Learn new drawing methods from nationally recognized master teacher Craig Nelson. This intermediate to advanced instructional video workshop on pastel and charcoal drawing is ideal if you want to improve your drawing or improve your painting. In Drawing with Pastel & Charcoal, an experienced drawing and painting expert teaches you the sequence to use, design and placement, shapes, dimension, and effective use of light and color.
Drawing with Pastel & Charcoal
This Craig Nelson Drawing Video/DVD is great for anyone interested in drawing, if you want to improve your painting skills or just enjoy knocking out a quick sketch.
Craig Nelson, CAC, shows you how to block in preliminary shapes, achieve proper placement and proportion, and how to pick out and render elements for a convincing three-dimensional scene. You learn how to sequence your drawing for the best chance of success, where to look for the brightest lights, anticipate soft and hard edges, and how to take advantage of reflected light and bounced color.
Craig discusses and demonstrates the importance of using a variety of lines to make a drawing more interesting and contribute to the artistic qualities of the overall drawing. He helps you hone your observation skills and bring what you see back to your drawing (or painting). Working from photographs, Craig’s drawings come to life in a matter of minutes.
Craig Nelson taught drawing and painting at Art Center College of Design in LA from 1974 and at the San Francisco Academy of Art College since 1990 where he is now Director of Fine Art Painting Department.
90 min.
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Drawing - Drawing a Duotone Portrait by Craig Nelson
Master the art of portrait drawing with Craig Nelson
Master the art of portrait drawing with professor of illustration Craig Nelson. With this instructional video workshop, Drawing a Duotone Portrait, you will soon master portrait drawing following the logical and intuitive progression Craig demonstrates.
Drawing a Duotone Portrait
Craig Nelson emphasizes logical order while drawing. He compares his drawing process to focusing a photograph. He builds layers of soft lines and swatches of tone then rapidly sharpens his subject with crisp edges and bold darks.
You see Craig translate angles from his source photo to his paper, as he looks for reference points to guide him. He completes a gentle outline of his subject then dusts in a layer of tone. With tissue and fingertips, Craig diffuses blocks of color to avoid locking in detail too early in the drawing.
With his value in place, Craig finishes the drawing with dark charcoal lines and deliberate strokes. He carves out the well worn character of his subject’s face and lifts out highlights with a kneaded eraser.
Throughout the workshop, Craig emphasizes restraint, “under doing” each step until he finds the right moment to bring his subject into focus. As he adds last details to the nose and chin, you’ll see this logical, intuitive process come to fruition.
Craig Nelson has taught for over 30 years and is currently the director of Fine Art, Drawing and Painting at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
55 min.
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Drawing - Drawing Gesture in Charcoal & Pastel by Craig Nelson
Learn drawing with pastel and charcoal with Craig Nelson
Learn the art of drawing with pastel and charcoal with master teacher Craig Nelson. With this instructional video workshop, Drawing Gesture in Charcoal and Pastel, you follow the logical and intuitive steps of a nationally recognized master. You learn the sequence, design, placement, shapes, dimension, light, and color to master the art of portrait drawing.
A reference photo of a dancer allows Craig Nelson to emphasize gesture in a charcoal drawing and capture an exciting pose not possible with a live model. Craig eases into the drawing by translating lines from his photo to his paper. He concentrates on angles and uses an imaginary grid and plumb lines to render a ghost drawing of his subject.
You’ll have continual access to Craig's reference photo as he works, allowing you to follow his interpretation of gesture. Craig adds facial features and shadows early in the process but plans for later changes.
Craig offers tips for effective shading. He demonstrates multiple strokes, rubs in subtle gradients and contrasts deliberate variation in the hair with diffused uniformity in the background reflection. He polishes his darks with a kneaded eraser and a layer of chalk and charcoal whites.
To finish the drawing, Craig perfects his lost and found edges. He both redefines outlines with dark charcoal pencil and blends away soft edges to create ambiguous transitions between the dancer’s hair and the background darks. He concludes the workshop with a self review, helping you understand the final effects of his techniques and reviewing his original goals.
Craig Nelson has taught drawing and painting for over 30 years and is currently the director of Fine Art, Drawing and Painting at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
60 min.
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Drawing - Basic Perspective Drawing by Gerald Brommer
Learn to Draw in Perspective with Gerald Brommer
Author, artist, and teacher Gerald Brommer unlocks the mysteries of perspective drawing in this easy-to-understand drawing instruction workshop. This indispensable set of drawing classes for beginners and experienced artists alike, includes exercises and tips for your drawing practice.
Basic Perspective Drawing
Recognizing correct perspective is often the key to successful drawing. Even though perspective rules can be involved and intricate, Gerald Brommer's art instruction video presents, with refreshing simplicity, an easily understood explanation of one- and two-point perspective, with exercises and suggestions for effective practice.
Even though perspective rules can be involved and intricate, Gerald's excellent step-by-step instruction allows you to solve perspective problems, and employ the method of “eyeballing” the lines of a drawing. Gerald takes the time to explain the fundamentals being sure to cover all the applications. He explains a host of terms and suggests many ways to improve your drawing skills. Even with such a potentially dry topic, this video is never boring.
Basic Perspective Drawing, created as a beginning drawing DVD by Crystal Productions, offers great drawing instruction not only for beginners — it's a helpful review for experienced artists.
30 min.
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DVD - Watercolor - Sketching in Perspective - Drawing & Composition by Carl Dalio
If you've ever had trouble with perspective, this is the video workshop for you! Watercolorist Carl Dalio, NWS, AWS, presents eight watercolor lessons on perspective and composition, each featuring an easy-to-follow exercise in this watercolor instruction DVD, Sketching in Perspective - Drawing and Composition.
Sketching in Perspective - Drawing and Composition
Carl Dalio establishes the basic principles with a sketch of a country house. He explains how to recognize vanishing points, a skill that forms the foundation for the rest of the workshop.
He then demonstrates one, two and three-point perspective, illustrating the advantages and pitfalls of each. Using a simple, one-story building, he establishes a system that can be used for equal spacing of any set of objects: fence posts, cars, clouds or people.
Carl Dalio next demonstrates how to draw proportional figures from eye-level and an elevated vantage point. He introduces time-saving methods for populating landscapes and applies his techniques to larger landscapes. Carl concludes with principles for composing sketches for paintings. He selects intriguing shapes from his reference material, determines dominant values, and edits major elements to suit his design sensibilities.
This video includes bonus features on painting figures in landscape and selecting colors.
120 min.
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DVD - Drawing - Learning Professional Techniques by Tony Couch
Learn to Draw with Tony Couch
Professional artist, educator, and author, Tony Couch demonstrates the professional drawing techniques necessary to create a work of art. In this drawing instruction DVD, he covers contour drawing, creating a gesture drawing of a figure and developing one-point and two-point perspective from different views.
Drawing: Learning Professional Techniques
This design and drawing instruction DVD begins Tony's assertion that drawing is the basic element for all multi-dimensional art. Once mastered, the artist can take his or her work in any direction.
Tony Couch shows you how to accent lines to create interest, to use basic shapes in developing your drawings, and to incorporate crosshatching and shading to produce form and dimension. Using these techniques, he completes three landscape drawings using pencil, colored markers, and ink with a bamboo pen over a watercolor wash.
This art instruction video-DVD is truly like condensing the usual Drawing 101 into a thimble. It covers it all and very well. What is required of the artist after viewing this workshop is some dedication and time, and practice practice practice!
This video workshop from Crystal Productions includes training and exercises, suggestions on how to think about your drawing (attack it as a whole, not parts). You will learn to see basic shapes, experiment with different eye levels, use the advantages of working loose and many more useful tips and pointers you'll put to use immediately.
59 min.
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DVD - Drawing - Drawing Landscapes with Pencil and Ink by Tony Couch
Learn to draw with pencil and ink with Tony Couch
Tony Couch guides you through the process of drawing landscapes with pencil and ink in this drawing instruction DVD, Drawing Landscapes With Pencil and Ink. Learn Tony's uncomplicated approach and be inspired by his skill and confidence in this interesting medium.
Drawing Landscapes With Pencil and Ink
Tony Couch uses pencil and ink to build two seemingly very different “landscapes.” The first, an inviting seascape, proves that attention to line, mass, shapes, and detail can develop into a drawing that involves the viewer. Using basic perspective drawing techniques, Couch pulls you in to participate with the liveliness of this particular beach.
The second drawing uses not only drawing skills, but plays on memories, nostalgia, and experience to tell the story of an old schoolhouse. Color washes and suggestion develop relationships and create a romantic mood of, perhaps, better days. Tony guides you through the process with a simple, direct, uncomplicated approach. With deceptively quiet skill and confidence, he sets the old schoolhouse in a surrounding to which we can all relate. You will enjoy learning Tony's watercolor techniques in this watercolor instruction DVD by Crystal Productions.
55 min., Drawing instruction video, Tony Couch
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DVD - Pastel - Landscape in Pastel, Reflections of Monet's Garden by Christy Tarbet
Learn to paint in Pastel with Urania Christy Tarbet
Learn to paint in pastel with pastel artist Urania Christy Tarbet. You will learn time tested-techniques to apply to your pastel in this Creative Catalyst Art Instructional DVD. Whether you are a beginner or advanced painter this DVD workshop will give you a wealth of pastel art skills that will help you paint better.
Landscape in Pastel, Reflections of Monet's Garden
Join Urania Christy Tarbet, PSA, KA , in this landscape pastel workshop. You’ll see the entire process necessary to construct a delicate, peaceful slice of time inspired by a visit to Monet’s garden’s expansive reflecting pond.
Urania begins her workshop by explaining the materials and her personal preferences and shares valuable suggestions to help keep track of your colors. She then tones her pastel work surface with a combination of two blues which help establish continuity and harmony. She discusses the pros and cons of her composition and the impact of using a square format. She uses vine charcoal to block in the basic shapes of her drawing. Urania lays down the initial colors in her painting, preparing the way to capture the subtle color shifts of her subject in the following layers.
Urania demonstrates several time tested-techniques to apply her pastel. Her goal is to make you comfortable with the medium and to permit your own creative freedom. She overlaps multiple layers of hues to create an astounding array of subtle greens. She shows you how to reclaim the grit of your drawing surface and points out special considerations when working with soft pastels. She even has suggestions to make clean up and framing easier.
Urania Christy Tarbet is a highly accomplished artist, first president and founding member of the International Society of Pastel Associations. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America. Her awards are too many to mention here!
93 min.
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DVD - Colored Pencil - The Colored Pencil: Getting Started Right by Janie Gildow
Colored Pencil Drawing Instruction DVD with Janie Gildow
Janie Gildow's drawing classes provide a firm foundation to the colored pencil artist. In this drawing instruction DVD you learn about the basics of drawing, including how to choose your pencils, erasers and papers.
The Colored Pencil: Getting Started Right
Janie Gildow shows you the proper grip for pressure control and exercises to improve variegated and smooth tones. She contrasts and demonstrates the major pencil techniques of layering and burnishing and discusses the benefits of each. Janie describes important modifications when working on dark paper, shows you how to incise lines. She describes how blending contrasting colors is considerably different with colored pencil in contrast to liquid media. Janie demonstrates color layering and how she achieves her elegant hues. There is an important discussion about the color wheel.
90 min.
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Colored Pencil - The Art of Colored Pencil: The Light Touch by Janie Gildow
Colored Pencil Drawing Instruction DVD with Janie Gildow
Janie Gildow is your guide to the rich and elegant art of colored pencil as you learn how to draw with colored pencil in this drawing instruction DVD. Janie covers a few basics then jumps into a project and teaches you her process from design to completion.
The Art of Colored Pencil: The Light Touch
Janie Gildow, CPSA, shows her photo selection process, cropping to improve composition, use of a modified grisaille approach to establish values and then demonstrates how she layers color, often using four or more colors in an area for richness. Janie uses the 'light touch' for flexibility and elegance. You will learn pointers to improve your own technique as she shares her thoughts about the process. Your view is so close you will see when Janie's pencil point starts to dull! This workshop packs days of information into 90 minutes.
90 min.
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