Once you attain the skill-set of portrait drawing you will find it to be immensely satisfying and your growth as an artist will accelerate. Seeing the likeness of your loved one or client or model emerging from the paper under your hand is a real accomplishment. Much better than to forever be struggling with the basics of portrait drawing with little or no progress.

You will find all of the tools you need to develop your portrait drawing to a high-level in my Mastering Portrait Drawing 1 DVD Workshop: The Frontal Pose.

In this four-hour, 2 DVD disk Portrait Drawing workshop you will learn:

	All the Tools and Materials used to create realistic, professional-looking graphite drawings; and best of all they’re simple, easy to find and cheap!
	How to Place and Size the portrait on the drawing surface first so your drawing doesn’t balloon off the size of your paper
	Understanding the Planes of the Head: achieving 3 dimensional effects using light so your drawing looks like it could walk off the paper
	Proper Measuring and Sighting techniques; learn about the importance of establishing your Station Point, squinting, and comparing length and widths
	Establishing Proportions and placing the Features correctly from the start - If you don’t want the nose to end up on the forehead you better know this!
	All the Anatomy you need in my “Constructive Anatomy of the Head” where each and every feature is thoroughly explained and the muscles are highlighted in animated color-coding for easy learning and memory retention
	How to work from the General to the Specific; Don’t get into those details too soon
	Building Tone and Value; the bedrock of realistic 2 dimensional artwork
	Background and Finishing considerations for professional looking works of art.
	How to Render Hair realistically and add movement and life to your work; AND
	How a Professional artist Finds, Analyzes and Corrects drawing problems -- these secrets are where great portraits lay.… and much more

Michael Britton, Study of Leela, 2004

*** Testimonial *** I recently purchased Mastering Portrait Drawing and am absolutely, completely blown away by it! I attended art classes in the seventies and have ever since been searching for more direct and intensive art instruction. I am basically a landscape painter, however, I have recently been getting many requests for portraiture, especially children. While this DVD is for portraiture, I see an immediate improvement in my initial landscape layouts. Thank you so much for your dedication and superb instructional abilities! J. Ottley Salt Lake City Utah

Unlike a class-room setting you see exactly the same view of the model as I do as I fully demonstrate each technique. Additionally, the animations reinforce what I am teaching you. This simply cannot be done in a class-room.

Let me ask you directly. How much information and skill did you get out of the last face and portrait drawing course that you took? Even if the instructor was world-class how much of the workshop did you retain?

If you're like most people, you probably retained about 10 to 20%. Consider that a 5-day workshop with a world-class instructor will cost you about $700 to $1,200 in tuition. And what if you have to travel to take the workshop. Add at least another $150 per day for a modest hotel and food and, say, $300 airfare and your total cost will be about $1,750 to $2,250! At least.

As a world-class instructor and Artistic Director I know that if you're a serious student you would have to take my class three to four times to absorb all of the information I have to offer. The cost for my students would easily be $2,100 to a whopping $9,000 for international students. And believe me, I've had artists travel from all over the world to learn these portrait drawing skills.

What if I told you that I will teach you all of my portrait drawing skills and techniques and that you can repeat my workshop as many times as you like for a very small fraction of what most other artists have paid?

In my Mastering Portrait Drawing DVD Workshop you also get:

	my Atlas of Facial Anatomy (frontal pose) fully integrated and succinctly presented in the DVD Workshop;
	a drawing exercise that will save you 10 to 20 years of struggle. I'm not kidding, this drawing exercise was developed centuries ago and used to train generations of artists; AND

PLUS 8 Bonus Portrait Drawing Lessons on CD-r!!! That's an entire 8 week course on the key elements of portrait drawing. And, frankly, there is more portrait drawing information in this free bonus package than found in most college-level portrait drawing courses. Here's the lesson plan: About Looking - Breaking Symbolic Preconceptions in Portrait Drawing The Arabesque - A Dynamic Correspondence Understanding Planes - Achieving 3-Dimensionality in Your Portrait Drawing The Value of Tone in Your Portrait Drawing Drawing the Skull Drawing with a Sculptural Sensibility Elements of Facial Expression: Part 1 Elements of Facial Expression: Part 2

Here's a sample chapter from Mastering Portrait Drawing 1 on placing and understanding the structure of the nose. You will need Flash Player (most likely it is already installed on your computer) to play this 8 minute movie:

Mastering Portrait Drawing 1: the frontal pose DVD Workshop is regulary $157 but for a limited time only it is on sale for $127 and includes FREE world-wide shipping via USPS. That's less than the tuition for only one day of a world-class workshop!

And what if you knew that if this was not simply the best portrait drawing workshop you ever took you could get all of your money back? Try asking for a refund after you've taken a course at an art school. You had better have a strong and compelling case.

*** Testimonial *** First I wanted to let you know how much I have enjoyed your DVD's I recently purchased both the Portrait Drawing DVD and the Symphonic Composition. Both of these sets are absolutely the best instructional sets I own. Your instruction is understandable and comprehensive. Thank you for making these available for those of us unable to take your workshop. I look forward to many hours of "instant replay" until I can extract all of the valuable nuggets you have provided. Additionally, the information on the Golden Section is so very well presented. I never completely understood this until watching your DVDs. Again, thank you. C. Sexton Chico, CA

Mastering Portrait Drawing 1: the frontal pose DVD Workshop Regularly $157. ON SALE FOR ONLY $127 - four hours of intensive portrait drawing training (2 DVD's) and eight additional portrait drawing lessons on CD-r plus FREE worldwide shipping! Three ways to order... Securely Online Or order by telephone! Call 1-800-427-2468 toll free. Or send a check or money order for $127.

P.S. Save yourself thousands of dollars in tuition and travel expenses. Order your Mastering Portrait Drawing DVD Workshop today and start learning how to draw beautiful, professional realist portraits now.