April 8th, 2002 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your April 8th YouCanDraw.com Communiqué |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| In today's Communiqué: 1) Flash Interactive Number Three is here 2) Member Showcase Progress 3) Getting the other Flash Interactives if you've just signed up ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do ALL! If you celebrated Easter I hope it was a great Holiday for you. It was a real reunion being with my family here in Minneapolis after being gone some 13 Easters! 1) But it hasn't been all fun and games around here, we've finished the next Flash Interactive and it's here today for you to download. Today's "Interactive" is a bit different from the first two. And how so? Today's is going to make you work a little harder. Yep, you'll have to roll up your sleeves today and really do the work - but it IS fun I think. And it could be a little challenging, since it is a large leap. But take your time and do the assignment at your own pace - spread it out over several weeks if need be. But do it. It'll really help hone your "rapid fire recognition skills"....so, So what's it about? Well in a nutshell it's about learning to recognize the shape of the face and head at a glance. It's about learning to see the larger framework a person's features reside in by not worrying about the features so much themselves. It's about...well you'll just have to see for yourself! The download is 2.5 megabytes, (probably 10 - 20 minutes depending on your modem connection (or the snap of your fingers on DSL's or big bandwidth connections). So go for it! Get your own copy while you're thinking about it! (It's included in your purchase price)... Here it is - Flash Interactive Lesson Number Three: http://www.youcandraw.com/YCD-head-and-hair-for-road.exe 2) Other news today: Make sure to keep sending your drawings for your own personal showcase - we're making progress and should have a good chunk of it done in another week - just make sure you put "Showcase" in the subject line of your email. Also try to keep your submissions under 300 kb per picture (or give me a little warning before you send something larger - thanks! ) And thanks so much to all of you who've contributed. It's great to see your interest and enthusiasm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) If you just signed up...Here's excerpt's from the two previous Flash Interactive Communiqués: from March 11th: "The object of today’s communiqué is to further drill home the concepts of visually sizing up your subjects. In particular, today’s focus is on the vertical landmarks of the face - and it’s easier than you think because there’s really only two you have to memorize (there were 5 horizontal landmarks). And we're delivering them you hot off the Hi-tech press: Flash Interactive Lesson Number two. By memorizing these, by literally imprinting them and their proportions (as found on Mr. Average) into your brain, you'll be carrying around a mental measuring grid. At least that’s my hope. So click on the download link (it’s just over 3 mb - expect about 12 - 19 minutes on a 28.8 modem, or some 6 - 12 minutes on 56.6 (possibly longer). http://www.youcandraw.com/ycd-flash-vertical.exe Also for those of you who've just signed up, I've included the link to the first Flash Interactive too. (Most of you have already downloaded it was the one that came out in January. ) If you don't have it, please help yourself to a copy (please download just one copy - the server bill starts growing if there’s too much traffic.) I'm including the download instructions from the first Flash Interactive. Enjoy and keep on drawing!: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first Flash Interactive Communique: January 9th, 2002 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your January 9th YouCanDraw.com Communique |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Hi all, well this is a biggee for YouCanDraw.com today we've gone hi-tech! Today marks the launch of the first of several “Flash Interactive” lessons. I don't think there’s anything else out there like them - seriously! They’re interactive, they’re entertaining, they’re educational...and they'll cut your learning time down 67.8%! Well I don't know about the 67.8% part, I've done no studies, but it sure sounded good :-) But what exactly is Flash? “Flash” is an Internet technology that allows for motion, animation, sound, and interaction in very compact file sizes. They’re like movies you can almost talk to. (I did have to take the sound out because the files just got too big - but they’re just as informative.) Anyway, I'm very excited about the first one here and I hope you'll find them unique and very helpful. Today’s Flash lesson focuses on the “Horizontal Landmarks of the Face”. Those are guidelines the Greeks and the Romans used, that the renaissance artists gauged their drawings by, and that caricaturists use to leap frog off when sizing up the face. Are they the only thing you'll use to “figure out a face”? Of course not, but they loom large in your grab bag of “sighting” tools you'll learn to apply at will when drawing faces. And along with understanding the vertical landmarks of the face, perceiving each particular isolated feature of the face, and the three-D perception of the head, you'll be way ahead of the competition (even if you're competing against no one but yourself :-) A firm understanding of those four areas I believe will help catapult your portrait and caricature drawing. (And we'll be “Flash-i-fying” all four of these areas.) Now unless you've read lesson 15 in it’s entirety, a lot of what I just said won't make a lot of sense. BUT, I'll bet if you just go ahead and download the lesson it'll make more sense. So here’s the link(s) [if you've already downloaded the horizontal landmarks, please don't download another - we have limited bandwidth]: http://www.youcandraw.com/horizontal-landmarks2.exe http://www.youcandraw.com/ycd-flash-vertical.exe What’s it cost? It cost’s you nothing - this is all prepaid and was included in your sign-up price! What you can do for me What I'd like you to do is give this first “interactive” a look. Let me know if it makes sense to you, if it helps clarify the point about the horizontal landmarks of the face and gets you seeking them out when you look at anybody’s face. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. So go for it, download it to your desktop (or if you’re a little more computer sophisticated, make a separate file for them). [When you click on the link, you should get a pop-up window. I recommend choosing the “download to you hard drive/disc” option. When you “ok” the download to your disc, you'll get the familiar Windows file choice window. If you scroll up, you'll see the desktop option.] The “Flash Interactive” file’s about 3.3 megabytes. (It’s no small fry :-). It could take 8-10 minutes on a 56k modem. So click away and check it out! And let me know what you think. Here's that link again: http://www.youcandraw.com/horizontal-landmarks2.exe --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it doesn't work right... If you get a blank white screen when you click on the Flash icon on your desktop, it didn't download in it's entirety. Do this: Right click on the icon (it’s set up to automatically download to your desktop) on the properties page, it should read “size: 3.07 MB”. Anything smaller than that means you got cut off at some point during the download. Download it again of this happens. You could also download the "MyGetRight" software (shareware) for free from here: http://www.getright.com/ (and if you like it you can always buy it.) It works like a charm. (Just 'copy and paste' the address above into the MGR window.) Keep on Drawing and sending your pictures! Warmly, Executive Director (952) 920-9827 6920 Southdale Road Minneapolis, MN 55435 http://www.YouCanDraw.com "Once and for all getting you drawing faces and caricatures" mailto:comments@youcandraw.com
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