Portraits In The Wild

REVIEW: Use the outside world to generate a rich assortment of characters for your art with this DVD guide.

Our Verdict

This DVD is an invaluable guide that will help artists capture characters and gestures quickly, while not losing any detail in the process.

For

  • Discover how to adjust life drawing to moving models
  • See how a professional artist solves creative challenges

Against

  • Nature of the videos means there's less technical advice

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For all the emphasis in art training on how to draw anatomy, the human body manifests itself in an endless variety of forms. And that's without accounting for gender, age, race, personality and style. Capturing such diversity in your artwork is both an opportunity and a challenge.

James Gurney's latest video shows him doing the groundwork that supports his successful attempts to represent the breadth of humanity in his illustrations. As with all his In The Wild’ videos, you’ll watch him use an outdoor drawing and painting kit to solve creative challenges.

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The Verdict
8

out of 10

Portraits In The Wild

This DVD is an invaluable guide that will help artists capture characters and gestures quickly, while not losing any detail in the process.

Richard Hill

Richard is an editor and journalist covering technology, photography, design and illustration. He was previously editor at the magazines 3D World, Mobile Computer User and Practical Web Design, as well as deputy editor at Mac Format and commissioning editor at Imagine FX. He is the author of Simply Mac OS X.

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