Art Is Drawing DVDs

Basic Perspective Drawing — Artist Gerald Brommer introduces linear perspective. He shows viewers how it is essential to see perspective in order to draw it. Demonstrations include how to make one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective drawings using boxes, landscapes, and buildings. In addition, he demonstrates how to draw cylinders in perspective, such as cups, bottles, and plates. 29 minutes.

Drawing Methods — In this fast-paced, comprehensive DVD, Gail Price demonstrates the use of felt tip markers, colored pencils, crayons, twigs, a palette knife, and different colored and textured papers. It includes a demonstration of the crayon resist method, which can be used to enhance drawings. Price demonstrates drawing a barn, kitten, landscape, plus still lifes. 26 minutes.

Drawing with Charcoal — Gail Price introduces the types of charcoal and conte crayon, demonstrating how they are used on different papers, including a still life drawing, a gesture drawing, and a cave drawing. The DVD concludes with a demo of dynamic drawing of Earth in space, and Indian bowl, and a landscape. Closed captioned. 28 minutes.

Drawing with Pastels — Artist Gail Price demonstrates the variety of pastels, including soft, hard, iridescent, and pencil. The properties of each type are explained, and Price shows how the different pastels enhance a wide selection of subjects and backgrounds. Close-up photography allows a good view of drawing techniques. 28 minutes.

Pencil Drawing — Beginning with contour and ancient lines, artist Gail Price leads viewers through the basic techniques to create 10 dynamic pencil drawings using a diverse selection of pencils and papers. This DVD covers techniques that produce texture and value, including scumble, smudge, kneaded eraser, stipple, hatching, and cross-hatching. Closed captioned. 28 minutes.