Drawing Your Loved Ones: People

Did you know that hair has its own posture and its own gesture? Or that brown eyes have undertones of blue, yellow, and green? In this informative tape produced by and featuring the artistically prolific Sandra Angelo, we are introduced to many of the colored pencil techniques needed to draw eyes, lips, hair, skin, babies, and simple fabrics. Angelo refreshingly admits that the tape's procedures are "fairly advanced and somewhat difficult"; the video box recommends that aspiring colorists watch The Easy Way to Draw Faces first. In her trademark pleasant-yet-straight-talking style, Angelo provides solid tips for intermediate students, including using grids and windows, developing different pencil strokes, finding photo references, and buying proper lighting. At $50 and 84 minutes long, this video offers lots of burnish for the buck. Aud: H, C, P. (K. Glaser)