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The Portrait Drawing Mastery Collection

Get ready to rocket your way to Portrait Drawing Mastery with our ultimate instructional package that will give you all the tools you need to blast your knowledge and skill into the stratosphere.

This carefully designed collection represents the most comprehensive portrait drawing education in the world today, guided by a recognized master artist. Be prepared to leave all your excuses behind.

The Portrait Drawing Mastery Collection contains everything you need to become a fully rounded portrait artist. Suitable for the hobbyist or professional at any level from beginner to advanced who wants college-level instruction in all aspects of portrait drawing.

Whether you want to paint, sculpt or draw portraits - Drawing is the foundation of all art. This is a truth, which has been taught for centuries by all the greatest masters and still holds true today even if you only want to do expressionistic or abstract art. Even Picasso was said to “draw like an Angel”.

An enormous amount of thought and care has been put into developing all of these programs as a total package for your highest learning advantage.

Another truism is painting mistakes are generally drawing mistakes. As a figurative painter, I can tell you this is an infallible truth. Master your drawing now and save yourself heartbreak later. It is quite disillusioning to spend weeks and months on a painting and as it nears completion all of those drawing errors begin to emerge and take center stage.

The central focus of the collection is our best-selling Mastering Portrait Drawing 1 & 2 DVD workshops. These workshops will lay the solid foundation and be your eternal reference material for improving your portraits year after year. (You won’t absorb it all the first time).

You see as you get more advanced your perception becomes more sensitive, your hand-to-eye coordination improves, your ability to judge distances get more accurate, your skill at handling materials excels, your eye becomes more critical in judging errors.

Whether you are at the beginner or advanced level the method of drawing portraits remains the same - but over time and with practice, your experience, knowledge, and skill grows ever more refined and the process will become faster, easier, more natural and fluid and much more confident and proficient.

This takes time, diligence, dedication and patience to achieve. But you get to decide how far you want your artwork to go - whether as a hobbyist or a professional. That’s the beauty of having this collection as your permanent reference as opposed to doing the odd workshop. It’s there to guide you on your journey in the years to come, day by day.

As the Chinese proverb says - the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - such is your odyssey to portrait mastery. This journey, however, never ends. There is always room for improvement, no matter what level you achieve. Studying fine art is endlessly stimulating, challenging, fun, exciting - an adventure of the highest magnitude without even having to leave your home or studio. I hope you will join me on this incredible journey and let me be your guide.

Contents of the Portrait Drawing Mastery Collection

Mastering Portrait Drawing 1: The Frontal Pose (2 DVD, 4 hr workshop) Value $157

Mastering Portrait Drawing 2: The 7/8 Profile View (2 DVD, 4 hr workshop) Value $157

Constructive Anatomy for Portraits Artists (Frontal and Profile). This full-color animated dvd has been fully integrated into the MPD 1 & 2 dvds. The only DVD format anatomy lessons in the world. Value $74

32 Portrait DrawingTutorials on 4 CD-r disks.

Disc 1, Key Elements, contains eight tutorials: Elements of Facial Expression 1 & 2, Drawing the Skull, The Value of Tone, About Looking-A Portrait Drawing Exercise, Drawing with a Sculptural Sensibility, The Arabesque and Understanding Planes;

Disc 2, Props & Poses, contains eight key tutorials on poses and props for interesting, dynamic portraits. Drawing Children, Drawing Spectacles, Drawing a Hat, Including a Hand in your portraits, The Tilted Head, The Foreshortened Reclined Head, Plasticity, Tone and Value, Identity – The Masked Portrait;

Disc 3, Features Mastery, contains eight tutorials: Drawing Expressive Eyes, Setting the Eyes, Understanding the Nose, Anatomy of a Smile, The Ear – Five Easy Pieces, The Clavicles – Adding a Graceful Finishing Touch, The Neck : Form and Structure, Rendering Hair

Disc 4, Beyond Basics, contains DISEGNO: Tint, Tone and Shading the Secondary Harmonic Triad: A Color & Composition Lesson, Underpainting Flesh Tones – a painting lesson, The Construct – A Compleat Arabesque, Fundamentals of Portrait Drawing – ¾ Profile View, Drawing Hands, The Secret Key of the Masters, Shadow Dancing, Drawing the Profile

Value $250

Drawing the Skull DVD (1 hour dvd) Your guide to mastering the anatomy of the skull. Value $37

The Anatomy of the Frontal Pose Handbook on CD rom . Value $32.95

The Anatomy of the 7/8 Profile View Handbook on Cdrom. Fifty pages, lavishly illustrated in full color with all the anatomical terms and for the bones and muscles as the handbook to the Anatomy DVD’s for easy reference. The only Anatomy books for portrait artists in the world today. Value $32.95

How to Draw Portraits from Photographs on CD rom. this 20 -page tutorial gives you all the information you will need to use photographs for private or professional work. It covers the equipment, lighting, hiring models, film and more. Value $19.95

Foto Pak – 5 Professional Artist Models Photographs on CD rom. Print out these high resolution photos and use them to practice drawing or painting from photographs. Every time I hire a model to pose for photographs to use in my work it costs me over $120 at least. Here are five photos I took with my best models for you to practice drawing from photographs.

TOTAL RETAIL VALUE
(as offered individually on our website)
$820.85


*** Testimonial***

I am delighted with the dvd portrait workshop. I have only watched the first two ( frontal position) and I feel I have already received my money's worth. . I think they are excellent: accessible to the beginner, and yet intellectually challenging and rewarding for the more advanced. Your instruction is clear, and you are generous with your obviously masterful knowlegde. I'm impressed.

I have plenty of enriching viewing ahead. I like your style.

Sincerely,

A.Whitcher
San Luis Obispo, CA

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Drawing from Photographs

This PDF book shows you how to take professional quality portrait photographs using both high end professional equipment and a very low cost alternative approach.

Plus the problems with working from photographs and their solutions.

This is a $19.95 value.

Consider what it costs to hire and photograph a model: first, the average model fee for just one hour is $85 (and that's on the low side); plus the cost of just one roll of professional film is $10; plus another $15 to develop the roll at a professional lab; plus another $10 for just one 8x12" enlargement. It would cost you a minimum of $120 for each model. And I haven't even begun to address the cost of professional lighting equipment, that's a few thousand dollars just to get started. Oh yeah, plus the studio costs. It just goes on and on.

Just print out these high resolution, 8x10 photos on your inkjet printer or take them to your local film developer or drugstore. And practice diligently what I teach you.

An indepth and thorough knowledge of facial anatomy is critical to your development as a portrait artist.

Included in the Portrait Drawing Mastering Collection is the Atlas of Facial Anatomy CDr and my 1-hour DVD Drawing the Skull.

Also included in the Portrait Drawing Mastery Collection are four CD-r's jam-packed with a whopping 32 portrait drawing tutorials on how to structure the nose, mouth, eyes and ears. How to render hair is another popular tutorial. To get this much training in an art school course you would have to attend class once a week for over 7 months! This is a $250 value by itself.

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And it gets better!

Your Portrait Drawing Mastery Collection comes in a high quality, black leatherette binder. No more plastic cases to clutter your bookshelf!

This silver embossed, high quality, 2 ring binder is custom designed for Artacademy.com DVD Workshops. It easily holds up to 20 disks. And it has a heavy duty zipper. No more dropped and scratched disks!

Binders of this quality retail for up to $35. And it is FREE! with your workshop.

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