Laurence C.'s Profile

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David Krentz does an outstanding job covering the basic traditional drawing skills (gesture, construction/form, anatomy, and rendering) as applied to dinosaurs. And despite its necessarily brief treatment in a 120-minute DVD, you’ll learn enough to feel confident with drawing many different types of dinosaurs. Both of my boys (ages 6 and 9) absolutely loved it. In addition, at least if you're inclined to pursue this subject, I recommend that you borrow or purchase the book “Thunder Lizards” by Steve Miller as a basic workbook to help you remember, practice, and build on the solid foundation that David teaches in the DVD.

Do you remember that time you were just learning a new skill? Or perhaps you’ve been practicing a craft for years without a full understanding, in that at least you didn’t know that you didn’t know until you saw it from a slightly different perspective? Then came the “Aha, oh wow! Now I get it!” You see, I’ve been drawing for most of my life, not professionally mind you, but I am pretty skilled, and yet, I always knew that there was something missing. I found it! And sadly, it’s been there all along, I just hadn’t paid any attention to it. I did when I watched this DVD, “Why the heck didn’t my design professors teach me any of this stuff?!” Oh wait, they did... but their lecture dynamics were often so static, boring, and overly technical that my mind all too often drifted into drooling-eyes-glazed-over-insipid-stupor-dreamland. Jim Orr is amazing! Not just for his ability to design, but to convey and elucidate the passionate dynamic creative essence in visual thinking. I wish I could have seen this 20-years ago!