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The Portrait Drawing Mastery Collection

From beginning to finish!

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”.

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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) Reg. $97
	Mastering Portrait Drawing 2: The 7/8 Profile View (2 DVD, 4 hr workshop) Reg. $97
	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.
	GET STARTED IMMEDIATELY! with THESE FIVE PDF E-BOOKS! That's a $62.55 straight-up value! Atlas of Facial Anatomy This 84 page PDF Download is your comprehensive reference for portrait drawing anatomy. The skeletal and musculature of both the frontal and 7/8’s profile view are presented indepth with detailed, full color images and descriptions that can be magnified for easy study. Currently on sale for $19.97! (regularly $~~39.50~~) Fundamentals in Portrait Drawing \| Volume 1 Recommended for the beginning portrait artist. The PDF e-book contains 11 step-by-step portrait drawing lessons beginning with how to begin a portrait drawing and concluding with developing tone (shading). Also included are the facial features - drawing the eyes, nose, mouth, & the ear. 76 pages total! Fundamentals in Portrait Drawing \| Volume 2 Recommended for the intermediate portrait artist. The PDF e-book contains 10 portrait drawing lessons: Drawing the Tilted Head; Rendering Hair; Drawing Children; Portrait with a Large Hat; The Construct; Incorporating a Hand; Elements of Facial Expression Part 1; Elements of Facial Expression Part 2; The Foreshortened Reclined Head; The Clavicles; & The Neck: Form & Structure. 75 pages total! Fundamentals in Portrait Drawing \| Volume 3 Recommended for the intermediate to advanced artist. This PDF e-book contains 9 lessons on drawing portraits with sanguine contè and the additive/subtractive process of building form. Also includes three lesson on the linear portrait using both black and sanguine contè. 73 pages total! Foundations in Portrait Drawing \| Volume 4: Advanced Techniques 2nd Edition includes three new lessons to fully develop your advanced portrait drawing skills! Seven intensive lessons on advanced portrait drawing techniques! Lesson 1: Drawing the 3/4 View with Hand in Graphite Lesson 2: Lost & Found: Drawing the 7/8's Profile View in Conte Lesson 3: From Hell to High Water: How to correct your conte portrait drawing when things go awry Lesson 4: Simpliccissimus: About Shape Lesson 5: Looking Through Rubens' Eyes Lesson 6: Drawing Isabella Lesson 7: Towards a Professional Practice - Sketching the Portrait in Oil 133 pages with larger, expandable images. This instant download lesson is SEVEN workshops in ONE!
	Drawing the Skull DVD (1 hour dvd) Your guide to mastering the anatomy of the skull. Reg. $19.95
	How to Draw Portraits from Photographs. This 20 -page PDF instant download 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. Save and print out these high resolution instant download 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.
	Drawing Hands DVD – 1 DVD including Anatomy of the Hand PDF textbook. Reg. $77
	The Practice of Tone a four-hour, two DVD program that demonstrates the entire process of rendering form. Working only within the facial arena I begin by quickly sketching in the features, followed by blocking-in the primary light/dark pattern before embarking on the long process of applying sanguine conte, stumping it in and then delicately lifting it with painterly strokes of a kneaded eraser. Reg. $97
	Drawing Children - 2 hour DVD – Learn to draw a candid child’s portrait in this two hour, eight lesson DVD workshop. Drawing Children is available as a DVD only in this collection. As with copying master paintings the same intensive learning curve is to be had by working from a master drawing. In Drawing Children you will be working from a finished master drawing step-by-step from beginning to finish. There are no gaps, no wondering how I got from one stage to the next. Expand your knowledge and skill and learn to draw children while tackling the issues of drawing ebony toned skin. Reg. $77
	A total value of over $554 for ONLY $257!!