This was a somewhat older video course in perspective, but I went from noob to (at least thinking I could) draw everything and anything in correct perspective. Very clear explanations at a slow enough space to understand everything without having to rewind (I finished it in 2 days, but I have played with Blender – free 3D software, and had math at school so I was somewhat familiar with looking at things in 3D).

Start - Right Angles

The lessons (it’s filmed in a classroom setting) start off with a quick introduction, and then deals with Right Angles (eg, cubes/boxes).

Right Angles

Then we move on to Circles and ellipses

Circles and ellipses

Ellipses is what you use to draw wheels and clocks etc in perspective (someone who doesn’t know how to draw in perspective will probably never ‘guess’/ eyeball this correctly, but once you know the ‘rules’ it’s pretty easy).

Open a box

You learn how to open boxes,

Fences

And how to draw fences (and how to figure out how much smaller things get the further away they go).

It’s a little expensive at $129  (US dollars – free shipping), but if you need to be able to draw things in perspective, this is video course that will get you far very quickly.

Although the end credits by Mr Vandruff say he saw a few mistakes and omissions, I didn’t notice those. In fact I appreciated the lack of a use of a straight edge on the chalkboard since that saved a lot of time and didn’t affect the knowledge/message. My only gripe would be the video quality, it definitely is not HD – it was filmed in 1994 – but you can see everything just fine so it didn’t bother me.

Website: http://www.draw123.com/perspective/

Artist network.tv has samples of their full length tutorials online and on YouTube.

The Artist Network on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/artistsnetwork

Preview and buy full length workshops on their website.

ArtistNetwork.tv

http://www.artistsnetwork.tv/

RivenPhoenix – The structure of man.  Anatomy lessons.

Learn to draw the human body from your mind, without any reference photo’s.

http://the-structure-of-man.blogspot.com/

I think everyone who draws human or animal forms should buy this. You can either buy a hard copy, or pay and download.

The DVD series contains 227 lessons (!) and starts out with a nice simple stick figure, but quickly moves on the skull and more complicated ‘formulas’. Although the artist’s native tongue is not English, everything is very clearly explained and the pace is great – not too slow, and not too hard to keep up with. And since it’s video you can always go back over a few lessons.

When you’ve finished this, your people will never look ‘run over’ again, and you will be able to draw the human body  in any position and from any angle.