Drawing

Learn How To Draw The Traditional Way. 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 downloadable PDF's of cast photo reference to go with this DVD box set.

In this, the first drawing tape from Signilar Art Videos, the viewer is taken on an extensive journey into the realm of figurative drawing. No matter what the medium, drawing, is the basis for all good painting. Burton Silverman is the perfect artist to guide us through, because of both his extensive knowledge of drawing and from having taught drawing for more than 45 years as part of his painting classes.

"Jeffrey Watts is an artist who has been steadily building both a reputation as an outstanding painter and draftsman of this generation as well as a consummate teacher and instructor of fine art principles. In his Watts Atelier, he trains a new generation of painters in the drawing and painting procedures that have almost become a lost art.

On this DVD Scott introduces the basics of 1, 2 and 3 point perspective drawing and leads you through the exercises needed to gain the skills necessary to draw man-made forms of your own design. Intended to be a lecture for the beginner or a refresher for the working professional, Scott shares the form building basics he utilizes when doing his advanced vehicle drawings; the drawing of freehand perspective grids and ellipses becomes the basis for a form building strategy. The DVD concludes with the drawing of complex curved surfaces that become the building blocks for vehicles in Scott’s following DVDs.

If you are struggling with drawing action pose and dynamic figure in perspective, this tutorial is for YOU! One of the another frequently requested from viewers (YOU) is Premium Traditional Dynamic Foreshortening Figures Tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn the Quick and Easy way to draw figure in various camera angles with dynamic foreshortening and action packed poses. You will learn to apply simple metric and theory of how to easily to create a pose you want in your shots. You will learn to begin with geometry shapes and gesture lines drawn. You will also learn the Correct Approach to Figure Drawing foundation from rough sketch to finish drawing.

Jack has been a practicing and exhibiting fine artist and freelance illustrator for over 35 years. He has taught drawing and painting at Cornell University, College of New Rochelle, University of Southern California, Otis College of Art and Design, Gnomon School of Visual Effects, and Woodbury University, to name a few institutions. He did background painting briefly at Hanna-Barbera and was hired as a trainer in Feature Animation at Disney in 1995. In 1999, he continued as a training consultant to Disney and taught at various institutions until he was hired to set up an Animation Department at Woodbury University, which he chaired for three years. He retired two years ago after eight years at Woodbury, as Professor Emeritus.

This course covers the use of materials as well as essential skills needed as a prelude to Figure Drawing which Glenn learned at the beginning of his artistic training. He finds that this basic skill set is often missing in the training of artists today. The focus is as much on training the eye as the hand, with development of visual skills as well as how to study independently. Basic concepts in drawing and their application are demonstrated and incorporated into the weekly assignments, using the same basic materials that will be needed for the Figure Drawing courses. These concepts are applicable to any field of artistic endeavor.

In this collection of lessons, we will learn about the process of drawing realistic animal anatomy. We’ll get started by taking a look at similarities between human anatomy and animal anatomy. From there we’ll learn the critical areas to look for in any animal and learn how to simplify and draw them in a two dimensional profile view.

Over 20 years ago (in 1985, around the time Glenn was working at Disney) Glenn was hired by to record several drawing instruction lectures