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Life Drawing by Vladimir London, Life Drawing Academy tutor

We would like to share with you a selection of free video lessons from Life Drawing Academy, an online video course, where you can learn how to draw human portraits and figures from life in the comfort of your home, and benefit from an unlimited support of Academy tutors.

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Head and Face Proportions

This video lesson explains the main anatomical features, the geometrical plains, and the proportions of a human head. Proportions are not rules and vary from model to model. Here, you will learn sequential steps of portrait drawing.

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How to Draw a Female from Life

To learn how to draw figures from life, you can enroll in the Life Drawing Academy online course. As a student, you will get a lifetime membership, personal support from the Academy tutors, and unlimited artworks critiques.

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How to Draw Hands

Drawing hands is one of the most difficult topics of life drawing, and knowing how to draw them realistically is very important for an artist. The best way to achieve good results is by depicting the hand's construction.

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How to Sketch from Life

To make a good, short gesture sketch of a pose in five to ten minutes, or even in one minute, you need to follow certain rules and sequences of drawing steps. In this video, you will discover the know-how of sketching from life.

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Classical Human Body Proportions

In this video lesson, you will discover a canon of human body proportions that is taught in leading art academies of Russia. It originates from classical Greek and Roman sculpture and is developed further during the Renaissance period.

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Life Drawing Courses

This video is special; we will talk with the Life Drawing Academy tutor about art and life drawing as well as how to cultivate good drawing skills. The higher the level of classical art education art students receive, the richer and better their art will be.

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In the Life Drawing Academy, you will learn how to draw realistic figures and portraits from life, memory, and imagination with the necessary knowledge of a human body's construction, proportions, and anatomy

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Video Length: 7 Videos, over 3hrs watching time

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Learn to Sketch a Reflective Still Life in Oil

Get Painting Reflective Surfaces in Oil Today for Only $25

Joe Gyurcsak paints a broad range of subject matter including interiors, still life, figurative and landscape painting. He has a keen sense for capturing the essence of his subject matter with a bold and candid approach.

Joe studied at Parsons School of Design and The School of Visual Arts in New York and had a successful illustration career early on. Later, he went on to study with many leading representational painters of our time in pursuit of a fine art career.

Joe is a gifted teacher, able to convey complex concepts and techniques to students with simple concepts. He has taught workshops and privately for more than 25 years.

What You'll Learn:

-Surface preparation
-Drawing with a brush
-Composition
-Getting accurate values
-Mixing and using neutral mid-tones
-Using accent dark and light notes
-How to see and paint reflective surfaces
-How to apply impasto paint applications
-How to complete a quick study painting in one hour

Video Length: 01:07:58

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PRICE: $25.00

 

 

 
Learn How to Paint Two Captivating Snow Scenes

Get Josh Clare Paints the Winter Landscape Today for Only $159!

Award winning artist, Josh Clare grew up drawing and was rarely without a pencil and paper, but it wasn't until he began studying art at BYU-Idaho that he began painting.

Josh has earned numerous awards along the way including artists choice at the 2012 Laguna Plein Air Invitational and 2nd place in the Raymar 6th Annual Painting Competition. Early in 2014 Josh was featured for three consecutive months in several of the nation's finest art magazines: Western Art and Architecture, Southwest Art, and Art of the West.

In Josh Clare Paints the Winter Landscape art instructional, Josh spends two days painting two different snow scenes that will captivate you. Included in this painting tutorial is a 45 minute white board discussion on relationships and what makes paintings beautiful. Josh shares his 3 secrets that have helped him become an award winning collectible artist.

What You'll Learn:

-Warm and cool temperature changes
-What to put in and what to leave out
-What makes for a good composition
-What to know when painting from photographs

Video Length: 04:36:34

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PRICE: $159.00

 

 

 
Learn to Sketch Figures in Oil with Susan Lyon in the Comfort of Your Own Studio

Get Figure Sketching in Oil Today for Only $25!

What You'll Learn

- The supplies used for figure sketching in oil

- Completing quick gesture paintings in 45 minutes

- Premixing basic flesh tones in light and dark values

- Simplifying large patterns for more dynamic compositions

- What to leave out of a painting to create a center of interest

Video Length: 2h:01m:48s

You will be provided with streaming video access.

PRICE: $25.00