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This Drawing and Sketching Multimedia Guide teaches and demonstrates drawing skills from beginner to more advanced levels, with step-by-step instructions, animations, videos and photographs. Please read on to learn more.
The Drawing Guide is currently reviewed in October's Edition of Ann Kullberg's CP Magazine (click here for review)
Drawing and Sketching Multimedia Guide Features
50 Video Clips, compromising of 1 hour 50 minutes of video footage.Categorised into three sections: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.Animations, and step-by-step instructions to all tutorials.Tips, tricks and techniques to help master the art of "seeing".Tips, tricks and techniques to help master the art of "seeing".Tutorials in graphite, pen and ink (with washes), charcoal/white pastel, and watercolour.
Click any of the small sample of screenshots to your left to enlarge (opens new browser window). Note, there is more to each section than can be shown in the screenshots.
This Drawing and Sketching Multimedia Art Guide is aimed at all levels and abilities from beginner to the more advanced,teaching the principles of "seeing" so you can learn how to draw and develop current art skills. Learning the foundations will aid progress in all sorts of mediums form watercolours and oils to pastels and acrylics.
Combining the best of hardback book and video, this art guide takes a hands on approach to demonstrate different mediums and their use for enhancing your art skills across all levels, with intricate step-by-step descriptions, starting from the basic materials, to their application, illustrated through photographs, animations and numerous video clips. The videos provide a more intimate view of the drawing procedures over and above the static images found in a book, and can be viewed over and over.
All software needed to view the pages is provided for on the CD which is logically laid out and easy to use and navigate; the contents of the CD are played directly from the CD itself without any need for installation onto your hard-drive.
| Use and importance of drawing |
| How to Sharpen and Hold a Pencil |
| Importance of Doodling |
| Negative Space |
| Blind Contour Drawing |
| Graphite Still Life - Apple Sketches (with videos) |
| Grids and Viewfinders |
| Drawing from Photographs |
| Graphite Giraffe Sketch Demo (with videos) |
| 3D Form and Modelling |
| Basic Lessons in Perspective (with video) |
| Graphite Portrait Sketching Demo (with videos) |
| Motivation |
| Recognising Where Things go Wrong |
| Plumb lines, Measurements, Judging Angles |
| Charcoal/White Pastel Demo - Alligator (with videos) |
| Basic Composition Theory |
| Watercolour Portrait Sketching (with videos) |
| Shading Techniques |
| Fantasy Graphite Landscape (with videos) |
| Graphite Landscape - Light and Drama (with videos) |
| Charcoal with Brush Technique, after Caspar David Friedrich (with videos) |
| Lost/Found and Hard/Soft Edges |
| Pen and Ink - Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco (with videos) |
| Gallery |
| Word from Author |
| Help |
| More than 50 Video Clips, compromising of 3 hours of video footage. |
| Three animals to three categories (9 demonstrations in total): Land, Sea and Air |
| Animals Include: Lion, Horses, Dog (Husky), Parrot (Macaw), Mandarin Duck, Masked Boobies, Crayfish, Fighting Conch Shell and Seahorses. |
| Animations included. Step-by-step instructions to all tutorials. |
| Tips, tricks and techniques to help get the best from the mediums used |
| Tutorials in graphite (pencil and powder), oil paints, watercolours, acrylics and pastel. |
These are a few screenshots taken from the "Fantasy" pencil demonstration. Much more is covered in the fantasy section than we can show here, and each section on the CD displays in a similar format to that shown (see "CD Contents" above for full listing of sections on CD).
The "Drawing and Sketching Guide - Developing Art Skills" Multimedia CD retails for £26.99 (inc p&P) in the UK, (approx. $45 in the States depending on current exchange rate).For more information, screenshots and testimonials, please click the button below.