When Folio Academy
approached the Army and asked us to review their art lessons, I have to
say I was intrigued. I am a terrible artist, but I have always wanted
to learn to draw. Folio Academy
lets you learn what you want, when you want, and in the privacy of your
own home. I wanted to see just how good these guys were so I set up a
little challenge. The Tech Monkey's birthday party was coming up so I
thought if these art classes can teach a bunch of pubescent boys how to
draw then they MUST be GOOD. We told all boys to draw a picture of a
monster before they came to the house for the party. This would give us a
starting point for how good or bad each of them were at drawing to begin
with.
So then I started the video for them to learn to draw. The first cartoon was a dinosaur. The 12 and 13 year olds kept up pretty well but all of them said they wished he would have stopped and given them little pauses to keep up. The nine year old ( Airborne) struggled to keep up. But they were all completely involved in what was being taught. Each picture was about 6 1/2 minutes longand the total time for all the pictures was 75 minutes. We drew the dinosaur, Frankenstein, and one alien.
By the time we got to the last drawing everyone was struggling to to keep up. It would be nice to have had the option to do two steps and pause. We ended up pausing the video ourselves several times to catch up. But the end result was AMAZING. Each of the boys drew almost exactly what the instructor had drawn. They all felt that they had learned something about cartooning and they all said that they would be interested in trying some of the other characters at another time. I am sure you are wondering just HOW good were the results. Well the best results by far came from Airborne. His before picture looked like Plankton from Sponge Bob Square Pants. But his Dinosaur was looked like the cartoon that was shown by the artist. All of the boys produced a great product. I had them hold up before and after pictures.It is hard to see since we drew in pencil but they each REALLY improved.
If a bunch of kids can improve this much in 15 minutes you can imagine what you could accomplish in a couple of weeks. There are courses in illustrating children's books, portraits, beginning drawing, and 27 more titles covering every type of drawing you can imagine. The prices range from $9.99-$29.99. If you or your child is interested in drawing or if you home school, this is an amazing product that will help you develop as an artist in the privacy of your own home.
When deciding on this product as FAD or FAB I have to go with FAB! Great Price, easy to use, and really works. What a great PRODUCT.
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I received no payment for this review other than the product itself
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If a bunch of kids can improve this much in 15 minutes you can imagine what you could accomplish in a couple of weeks. There are courses in illustrating children's books, portraits, beginning drawing, and 27 more titles covering every type of drawing you can imagine. The prices range from $9.99-$29.99. If you or your child is interested in drawing or if you home school, this is an amazing product that will help you develop as an artist in the privacy of your own home.
When deciding on this product as FAD or FAB I have to go with FAB! Great Price, easy to use, and really works. What a great PRODUCT.
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I received no payment for this review other than the product itself
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