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Mark Kistler's Draw Squad is a drawing curriculum from artist and former PBS Imagination Station and Secret City host Mark Kistler. The foundational book Draw Squad, published in 1988, teaches cartoon-style three-dimensional drawing across thirty 45-minute lessons. Kistler's online platform Mark Kistler's Web Art Lessons offers hundreds of video lessons organized by grade level for self-paced use. Both resources focus on techniques such as foreshortening, shading, and vanishing points, using cartoon characters as subjects. The program is secular and widely used as elementary and middle-school drawing enrichment.
Signature products
- Draw Squad (book)
- Web Art Lessons
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