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Get in touch with your creativity, gain confidence and master your drawing skills with The J.D. Orr Project Special Edition DVD.
The DVD features Jim "JD" Orr delivering over 150 minutes of hands-instruction. On this DVD, Jim teaches introductory lessons in Drawing in Dynamic Perspective, Rapid Visualization, and Marker Rendering.
Drawing in Dynamic Perspective reveals the hidden keys to training your eyes and mind to "see the unseen" and gain a working knowledge of one-point and two-point perspective.
Rapid Visualization explores the "language of line" to quickly and accurately bring realism, depth and intrigue to your drawings.
Marker Rendering tackles the intimidating use of gray-scale markers to bring renderings to life.
The DVD is chaptered for easy review and contains a sketch gallery, reference material, session notes and a 1955 Jaguar D-type introduction.
This video was added to our catalog on February 01, 2006 in Arts & Crafts::Paper and Ink.
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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!
I was disappointed in this video. Jim Orr gets caught up in himself too much. He starts injecting philosophical stuff (on honesty, confidence, etc.) which made me keep saying, "What is this man talking about!" The section on perspective drawing is OK.
You have to remember, you are watching a man with over 30+ years in Industrial Design. He draws very fast. This is NOT a beginner's instructional video. For learning how to draw, I will always point people to Betty Edwards, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". After watching her, nothing else comes close. I would not recommend this video as it only showcases someone who draws very fast and offers little practical instruction. It is like he is saying, "Here, just do what I do, like this...."
Some good tips on drawing in one and two point perspective.
