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October 15th,
2001 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your every other week YouCanDraw.com Communiqué |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 1) Today: big link to an even bigger new page ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all. Well today there was just too much to send you by email, so I'm sending you a link instead. What's the link to? Part IV of In depth Case-Study #3: Ani DiFranco. In parts I through III you saw in-depth explanations concerned with articulating the imaginary guides and landmarks a portrait artist or caricaturist tries to imagine being laid over the face. Comparing those guides to those of Mr. Average directs your next move in exaggerating any part of your subject's face. Lot's of info, exercises, and even some anatomy In this latest section, Part IV (with the help of over one dozen completely new fly out-links and 9 exercises), you'll analyze what makes Ani look like Ani - one feature at a time. You'll look even deeper into what makes and influences the shadows of the face - and why recognizing those shadows shapes are as important as the correct perception of the obvious features. You'll look at the subtle influences of bone and muscle movement on facial expression and possibly for the first time, make sense of what's going on in a person's face. Like 80 pages total! There's an eyeful and mouthful and a half here. In fact The whole page types out on my printer at 54 pages - and that's just the main page! Counting the fly-out pages and the exercises, there's close to 25 more pages. Eighty pages in all! In fact it's almost too big - it takes almost 6 minutes to download on 56.6 modem and close to 12 minutes to download on a 28.8. Sorry about that. (In the past we did a vote and one huge page won out over multiple small pages - you could hit print and leave the room. The text comes in pretty fast, it's all the illustrations that take time.) Turn off your Browser's "image preferences" Let me suggest (like I suggested in the last large upload), to print out the main page and then on any return trips to the page, turn your browser's image preference OFF since it's all the illustrations that slow the whole thing down. That way you can rapidly access the "fly-out". There's also a navigation box at the top so you can jump around the page with the greatest of ease. It's a nuisance but a few of the links between other Ani DiFranco pages need re-configuring but that'll be fixed later this week. This new section will be included in the next version of the e-book, though that's months off. (But we're working hard at it !:-) Next on the docket in the next 2 weeks: upload all the past caricatures and Communiqués, begin on adding large amounts of drawing exercises that really drive home the learning points. So here's the link - it's been a lot of work - hope it's helpful to you! http://ycdinsiders.digitalchainsaw.com/InsidersArtistLoft/ani_difranco_part_4.htm Please notify me If you find any confusingly written sections - or if you find any mistakes. (Your input always appreciated!) Warmly, Jeff k. Executive Director (310) 676-2998 4702-C West 130th Street Los Angeles CA, 90250 http://www.YouCanDraw.com "Once and for all getting you drawing faces and caricatures" mailto:comments@youcandraw.com
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