January 9th, 2002 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your January 9th YouCanDraw.com Communiqué |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 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: http://www.youcandraw.com/horizontal-landmarks2.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 Warmly, Jeff PS Please forgive us for any interruption of service and e-zines during our move from Los Angeles to Minneapolis - and in the dead of Winter no less! :-) 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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