January 29th, 2002 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your 29 January YouCanDraw.com Communiqué |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| In this issue: 1) On the road in just 24 hours! 2) 15 "Upside-Down" drawing exercises uploaded 3) New subscribers - get your "Flash Interactive" download ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Hi all, We're less than 24 hours away from our move, so after today's very short email it'll probably be about 10 days before the next contact. All our email addresses will remain the same; if for some reason you need to mail us, the new mailing address will be: YouCanDraw.com c/o Kasbohm & Company 6920 Southdale Road Minneapolis, MN 55435 Weather looks fair to middlin between here and Minneapolis - we'll be traveling due East taking the southern route through Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Big left in Oklahoma City where we'll catch Highway 35 and head into, gulp, Winter. If any of you spot a big Ryder truck with funny faces painted all over the side, it'll be us. :-) 2) Lesson 3 Upload - more drawing exercises If you've been working your way through the book lesson by lesson from the beginning, you might find a need for more exercises - I sure think more are needed, and better designed at that. So as we continue with the "Flash Interactive" lesson, you'll also see additions made to all the lessons. Today we've uploaded 15 different "Upside-down drawing" exercises in Lesson 3. What's Upside-down drawing? No, it's not drawing while your'e standing on your head. It IS an approach to drawing, a technique that forces your conscious, controlling left brain to take a back seat allowing the more patient, observant right side of your brain a chance to do it's thing. In fact that's the one of the main tenants of DRSB training (DRSB = Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain): present the left, thinking brain with a task it's entirely unfamiliar with, forcing it to step a side and allow the right brain (or R-mode) to emerge. If you're finding yourself with less than realistic likenesses of whatever it it is you're drawing, upside-down drawing (along with pure contour drawing - Lessons 4 and 5) just might be the antidote you're looking for. To draw well, you have to s l o w d o w n - and these exercises help you do that. So check this out: http://ycdinsiders.digitalchainsaw.com/InsidersArtistLoft/stepslofesson3.htm Click on "Intermediate Drawings" and you'll be instantly transported to the new drawings. Don't print them out, draw them as they appear on your computer screen. (You can flip your drawing over when you're done to see just what the heck you're drawing!) 3) New Subscribers: get Flashed! Lastly, if you've signed up within the last 7 days, make sure you click on this link to get the first "Flash Interactive" download. (This is the same one you've been seeing the last 3 weeks for you folks who've been around awhile :-). Here's the link: http://www.youcandraw.com/horizontal-landmarks2.exe Take care, stay warm, and keep on drawing! Warmly, Jeffrey O. Kasbohm Executive Director http://www.YouCanDraw.com "Once and for all getting you drawing faces and caricatures" mailto:comments@youcandraw.com
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