January 21st, 2002 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your YouCanDraw.com every other week caricature |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Hi all, Well we're busier than all get out preparing for our move, in and out of town, packing...now didn't I say we'd be sporadic over the next several weeks? Thanks so much for you patience. It's appreciated. Our actual moving date is the 30th of January - out of LA and off to Minneapolis. Brr! (But the truth is I love winter:-). Hopefully we'll be re-hooked to the web by February 7th. The Insider's Loft will still be there, in fact nothing will be different - except that I won't be around to answer your questions during that time. Also, I hope you all get the chance to honor and celebrate the Martin Luther King Holiday (especially if you're in the United States.) Today's caricatured Today's caricature is of Tenzin Gyatso whom you may other wise know as none other than the Dali Lama. Why the Dali Lama? Well he seems like such a nice guy I didn't think he'd mind plus he's also very drawable :-). And I'm not Buddhist. Here's a couple links for more pictures: http://www.dalailamainfo.com/html/holiness.htm http://www.dalailamainfo.com/picture/picture.htm The picture I used was this one at Amazon - (except I just put those big square glasses on him): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0722540302 /reader/1/002-1850602-1887208#reader-link Amazon.com is now including large photos of book covers and even the first chapters of many book - and some of the best pictures out there are on book covers - and Amazon is a treasure trove of them! I'll get back to saying a word or two about the picture after the move when I have more time. Suffice it to say it's a fairly rapid sketch (it shows), largely unfinished, but one I'm pretty happy with. (It's amazing how a good picture speeds up the process!) Get your first "Flash interactive" If you've just signed up, make sure you click on this link - it's the link to the first of several sizable downloads included in your purchase price. Here's a blurb from the last communiqué: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ....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 ------------------------------ Take care all, I might get one more drawing out before I go - and keep on drawing yourselves's! Warmly, Jeff 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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