Use these DVDs to enhance your familiarity with human anatomy and create more realistic, life-like works of art.

This instructional DVD features full-length, step by step portraits and easy to follow instruction for drawing accurately, working with models, and using common drawing materials. 75 minutes.

Take your students into the studio for an over-the-shoulder look at the various skills and techniques demonstrated by professional artists and illustrators.

In Portraits in Watercolor, Artist Charles Reid demonstrates the special skills required when painting portraits. Shapes of color become alive as they intermix — and the personalities and likenesses of the subjects begin to shine forth.

Learn techniques for drawing people and portraits, suitable for grades K-8. This video takes the mystery, but not the wonder, out of drawing friends and family.

Artist James Kirk shares some of the skills and processes that lead into portrait painting, such as contour drawing, mirror drawing, and glass drawing. The exercises lead directly into painting a complete portrait. 60 minutes.

Artist James Kirk shares a progression of different approaches to painting portraits while he weighs and implements each of the elements and principles of design in a variety of paintings. Kirk's main goal is to artistically capture the essence of his subjects, not to create photographic likenesses.

Art educator Peggy Flores shows how to make a self-portrait from a mirror image with correct placement of facial features. Using a digital camera to take a self-portrait, Flores shows how to convert the photo to a line drawing. DVD. 25 minutes.

Costa Vavagiakis takes portrait painting beyond the basics with a thorough examination of anatomical features and an in-depth explanation of using plumb lines and apex points to lay in shapes. Also learn to capture light and shadow effects.

In this DVD, Bob Kato demonstrates step-by-step how to draw the human head using basic drawing materials. He shows how to develop a drawing in stages, and through this process discusses gesture, form, depth, perspective, proportion, light, and shadow.

Lee Hammond demonstrates how to achieve lifelike portraits through smooth blending and gradual tonal changes. She also shows which tools to use and how to get the best results from them.

Transform your skills with this DVD in the Discover Art series from artist Sandra Angelo. Learn the key secrets for composing portraits as well as step-by-step techniques for drawing skin tones, hair, mouths, eyes, and fabric with colored pencils. DVD. 86

Learn easy techniques for capturing the nuances that make a portrait special. The video includes step-by-step demonstrations for drawing facial features to achieve a likeness. This DVD runs approximately 45 minutes.

Join master oil painter Ron Hicks in this start-to-finish demonstration on how to create an accurate and compelling oil portrait while staying true to your artistic voice and vision. 60 minutes.

An avid naturalist, Serrano is well known for his ability to observe the atmosphere and create spontaneous expressions of the landscape. With this DVD, he shares his distinctive methods for connecting with and interpreting nature. 60 min.

Known for her all-around artistic knowledge, Susan Lyon walks you through the step-by-step process of drawing a portrait in this inspiring DVD. Whether you work in pastel, graphite, or charcoal, Lyon makes it easy to improve your skills and develop as a draftsman in impressive ways. 60 min.

This master class with expert watercolorist Mary Whyte takes you inside her studio to paint a watercolor portrait from start to finish. This invaluable behind-the-scenes look into the methods and techniques of an expert portraitist is sure to be appreciated by both aspiring and practicing artists.

If you're interested in painting portraits in pastels, this is a "must-have" for your collection. Jael walks artists through every step in the process, from sketching a subject, to adding the finest details and shading, with stunning results.

Each DVD has many carefully analyzed scenes to show what professionals need to know about each subject. With the purchase of the 5-disc set of DVDs, you'll receive a free handbook - a 99-page, full-color complement to the series.

If you're interested in painting portraits in watercolor, this is a must-have for your collection. This two-disc collection takes you all the way from photographing a subject to adding the final details, achieving amazing results.