The Vilppu Drawing Manual is a series of 12 lessons and is 176 pages.
The first chapter deals with the getting the gesture or action of the figure. The chapters progress, each one building on the previous one. The use of spherical forms, boxes and cylinders are thoroughly demonstrated and explained. A strong emphasis on basic procedures, fundamentals of anatomy, 2D and 3D observations. The final three chapters are devoted to the use of tone. Each chapter is thoroughly illustrated in a true "how to manner". This is not a coffee table book, it is a drawing manual. For the DVDs of the actual lectures of each chapter, click here:
Figure Lectures.
"Thank you Glenn for writing the ultimate drawing manual that can
be used by myself as well as my students. The more one learns about
drawing, the more they will see in each page. This book will grow with
you." -Sheldon Borenstein, Professional Animator,
Lifelong Student, Owner and Operator Of the Sheldon's Art Academy,
Teacher at San Jose State University
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Normally
the Chapter 1 Gestures DVD costs $29.95, however in order to give you the
opportunity to check out this video at a HUGE discount of only $10 when you
purchase the full version of the Vilppu Drawing Manual: $49.95
Vilppu
Drawing Manual + Chapter 1 DVD as a downloadable version: $49.95
Due to a printing error, we have copies available that have several sections of text that were
truncated or on the incorrect page. We do include an errata sheet so you can fill in the missing
text. As a consolation, we would like to offer this book at a discount to
you. Bad Copy: $19.95.
Due to the number of university classrooms this
book is being used in, to make it simpler on teachers, school bookstores,
and entrepreneurial minded students, we have also set up a 20% package discount for
purchases of 10 packs of books: $319.60.
Because so many of
you have been asking for a physical copy of the book to work with as well as
the digital version to take with you wherever you go, we have decided to
offer you a huge discount off of the full price if you buy these together.
So instead of $39.95 each, for a cost of almost $80, we are offering this
combo pack to you for the discounted price of $39.95 plus only $15 for the
download for a total of $54.95.
Please note that all
digital versions are licensed for one user only.
This sketchbook of Glenn Vilppu's is
on the recommended reading list by Disney and the other major studios for their
animation employees to study drawing from. First
published in 1994, this classic has been out of print and
unavailable for years! It is finally back, and back with
style! 100 pages of Glenn Vilppu's selected
drawings.
Signed Copy Price: $69.95
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The Sketching on
Location Manual is a direct development of daily lessons for
students and artists traveling with me on my annual
sketching tours of Europe. There are 12 chapters, each of
which as in the Drawing Manual, build on the previous
lesson. Subjects are both landscape and figures, dealing
with both fundamental procedures, composition, technique and
a final chapter on the use of photographs. To go find out
more about these tours, click here,
European Sketching Tour with Glenn.
"This is an excellent
textbook for Storyboard and Layout...it is a wealth of
information...also for Book Illustration because it really
focuses on foreground, middle ground and background.
Everything in [this] book is what's needed for these
disciplines" -Sheldon
Borenstein, Professional Animator,
Lifelong Student, Owner and Operator Of the Sheldon's Art Academy,
Teacher at San Jose State University
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Although this manual was
designed as a complimentary, integrated piece of the
Mastering Composition Set, we have had such a high demand for
this title that we are now offering it separately from the set!
Please refer to the Mastering Composition
Set page for more information about this title. Note that
due to our desire to keep costs reasonable, the printed version is
in black & white, although there are a few images that would provide
more detail if viewed in color.
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Manual (Black & White) Price: $39.95
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with PDF (Color) on CD: $49.95
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The sketch is the capturing
of the essentials of a subject without details. The phrase
"quick sketch" has come to be synonymous with a drawing done quickly
to capture the action or gesture. However, what are essentials
to one artist may not be to another, and thus the meaning of the
sketch is in the intention of the artist. The famous 18th
century English artist Hogarth made a comment about Michelangelo
that he never sketched haphazardly, for every line had a meaning.
While drawing quickly, it is necessary to decide what is most
important about your subject. As you develop skills, the
decision making process is often intuitive. The lines you put
down are directly linked to your thoughts and feelings about the
subject of your attention.
The procedure for doing most
of the sketches is the same as outlined in the Vilppu Drawing
Manual, the Vilppu Sketching on Location Manual and the
Quick Sketch
Lecture on DVD. This is not a how to
book, it is a sketchbook.
OUT OF PRINT -NO LONGER
AVAILABLE
Vilppu Animal Drawing Manual
The Animal Drawing Manual has
been completely revised and updated! 190 pages packed full of
detailed examples and instruction. Please be advised that this is
an advanced manual that is based on information taught in the Vilppu
Drawing Manual, so it is recommended that you study the Vilppu Drawing
Manual first. See more information about it on the
Animal Drawing Set page.
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This book parallels very closely
the head drawing classes that I teach, and a majority of the
illustrations were created as lecture demonstrations in class.
Consequently, this is in reality a head drawing and anatomy manual to be
used by students in my classes as a textbook. The use of this manual
should be of equal value to those working on their own who are unable to
attend my classes in person. The material is the same as in my classes
with the advantage of portability and no time constraints.
I have consistently found
myself drawn to the fundamentals in teaching drawing. A solid grounding
in the basics, approached as tools of expression, rather than rules that
must be followed, free the artist allowing him or her to follow their
individual direction.
The basis of my approach is
founded on very simple grounds. First, you must know how to describe
form. Second, you must understand the form you are drawing. These
first two give you the freedom of expression.
This is one of four
smaller
books on drawing by Vilppu showing the anatomy of the head
in detail. In conjunction with the Vilppu Head Drawing DVD's becomes a
complete course on how to draw the head.
Check out the related head drawing
products here!
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Figure Drawing Demonstrations Step By Step
In this book, I address the basic
difficulty that many students have in class as well as in studying from
reproductions of drawings. In class, I demonstrate by doing drawings
showing each step in the process. Still, I find that even as the
student watches me doing the drawing, it is difficult to remember all of
the steps that went before the finished drawing. The use of a tablet
computer now allows me to save and show each of the steps, so that the
student can go back to the beginning as many times as needed. Use this
book as a supplement to my Vilppu Drawing Manual and the DVDs of
classroom lectures and demonstrations.
The drawings vary from simple
quick sketches with only a couple of steps to complicated finished
drawings. All of the drawings were done in class as demonstrations on a
Toshiba Portege tablet computer.
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As art students, we all spent most of our
time drawing the nude figure. As professional artists, we rarely draw
the nude figure. In drawing the draped figure, the natural
tendency is to copy the pattern of the folds that we see. My focus
in this book is to use the drapery as a means to describe the underlying
form. Of course, in describing the form, the action of the form is
a critical element so the drapery becomes a strong component of
communicating the action. The folds created by the drapery fall
into predicable patterns determined by the kind of drapery, the form
that it goes over, the action of the form and, in the case of clothes,
the cut and type.
The predicable patterns
are classified into seven basic folds, and combinations of these folds.
Understanding these folds, and what causes them, allows the artist to
draw the clothed figure from imagination. In drawing from
the model, the understanding of the basic folds and their causes, gives
you the ability to select the folds that best communicate the action and
describe the form.
This is one of four smaller books an
drawing by Vilppu explaining and showing examples of the seven basic
folds. In conjunction with the
other Vilppu Drawing Drapery materials, this
becomes a complete course on how to draw drapery.
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Hands are one of the strongest
elements of expression in humans, and as such, the gesture of the hands
is a vital part of the drawing. Hands and feet are particularly
difficult because of the complexity of the forms to start with, and the
variety of shapes, combinations and gestures they take. Hands and feet
are subjects that seem to continually give artists a great deal of
difficulty. There are many good books on anatomy, but few actually give
much instruction on how to draw. Hopefully this small book will fill
some of the gaps, if not in anatomy, in drawing. In this volume, I am
presenting procedures and methods of drawing hands and feet that go back
to the 15th century.
This is one of four smaller books an
drawing by Vilppu showing the details of drawing hands and feet. In conjunction with the Vilppu DVD on the
Anatomy of the Hand and Anatomy of the Feet, and the reference cards for
each, it
becomes a complete course on how to draw hands and feet.
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products here.
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