Medical Expenses

Lorenzo Sperlonga, one of the world's hottest pin-up artists, shows in painstaking detail how to render Medical Expenses, a sexy and complex pin-up portrait that includes a variety of textures, professional and groundbreaking paintbrush and airbrush techniques, and an overall approach to painting that will alter the way you work. This is a must for beginning to advanced artists.

In this DVD, you'll learn:
* How to create custom stencils * How to work with negative and positive stencil parts * How to mix colors, including flesh tones * How to fill a background * How to prevent and correct under-spray * Use of masking fluid * Paintbrush and airbrush techniques * How to work with transparent colors * How to properly thin acrylics * How to create dimension in your artwork * How to thicken paint * How to work with acrylic gesso * How to consider your light source * How to remove your mask * How to remove liquid mask residue * How to establish your dark and light areas * Use of loose masks
* How to work with photo reference * How to establish highlights and shadows * How to render a portrait * How to render highlights with pencil and electric erasers * How to create a natural look to your paintings * How to correct mistakes * How to remove color if necessary * How to blend colors * How to achieve a variety of textures, including fabric, metal, silk stockings, plastic, & more * How to use double stencils * How to achieve straight lines with a paintbrush and more! * Suitable for Beginner to Professional.

Sorayama: Secrets Revealed

This is an exceptionally rare and exclusive opportunity to witness the creation of a painting by Sorayama, one of the greatest living illustrators of our time, and perhaps in history. In this special step-by-step presentation, the legendary Sorayama guides you from sketch to completion revealing his secrets of painting along the way. As you watch this DVD it’s important to note Sorayama’s careful planning and composition of an image, his meticulous attention to the smallest details, his painstaking development of and continuous interaction with a painting, how he pays close attention to his reference, and his versatile use and array of mixed media. Sorayama approaches his paintings interactively. In other words, instead of simply executing a painting, he works methodically, allowing visual feedback to guide him as he progresses. He switches tools often as he gradually builds his surfaces, and he doesn't attempt to complete any one section in the first few passes, but rather starts light and gradually incorporates paint, ink, pencil, and airbrush until he’s satisfied. World renowned illustrator Dru Blair is your guide throughout Sorayama’s masterful rendering of an exotic pin-up. To see more of Sorayama’s art, visit www.sorayama.net.

In this DVD, you’ll learn: * Use of technical pens, paintbrushes, airbrush, and a variety of pencils * Use of razor knives * How to transfer your image to an illustration board * Use of an Artograph opaque projector * Use of a compass * How to mix flesh-tones * How to build texture * How to render shading and half-tones * Use of acrylic colors * How to apply a wash * Blending techniques * How to use yourself as reference for an image * How to eliminate unwanted blemishes from a painting * Use of spray fixative * How to prevent your illustration board from warping * How to use electric and pencil erasers for highlights * How to accelerate drying between coats * How to achieve perfectly straight lines with a paintbrush * Use of frisket and masking And much more!  2 disc set.