Shot at the Pacific Science Center and the Monroe Reptile Zoo, this 80-minute video offers footage of reptile models as well as robotic dinosaurs used to help draw of various kinds of dinosaurs. It provides close-ups of texture and detail to help students created realistic drawings with help from Cordi’s step-by-step instructions. It includes a Spanish language track. A percentage of profits benefit the Pacific Science Center. “Artragous Designs produces a product with real heart. Cordi believes in drawing what you love and loving what you draw, and it shows,” a company representative told TDmonthly.

In this upbeat three-phase DVD, instructor Cordi uses a positive approach to teach children how to draw ocean animals, while expressing a deep love and respect for the sea and its inhabitants. The program offers nearly two hours of lessons on sea life, assuring students along the way that they will improve, step by step, as they practice. A percentage of profits benefits Dolphin Rescue. “This small company specializes in teaching traditional methods of drawing through using subjects that kids are crazy about,” Cordi Bradburn told TDmonthly. Launch date: February 2007.

Ideal for horse lovers, this 64-minute DVD was filmed in an old barn with lots of actual horse models, from beautiful stallions to new born foals. Cordi gives easy sequential directions that are great for beginners to intermediate students. Instructions detail how to draw a horse head, a horse showing anger, a foal, a horse body, horses in action and Pegasus. There is also a Spanish language track. A percentage of profits goes to save wild Mustangs.