Learn to Draw - The basic elements in drawing Let's get a bit more in depth with the elements of drawing. The rest of this website will get even further into each of these elements. Line is the most basic element of the drawing. And in it's most basic definition, it's what separates one area of the drawing plane from the other. I'm not saying we won't be drawing lines because they don't exist in the real world. Shape occurs when the first line is drawn. Proportion and Perspective. Light and Shadow create depth and atmosphere in a drawing. The whole drawing. Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again. You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. But you procrastinated anyway. Pick a Topic The more "legally-oriented" your topic is, the better. Make a list ...of every possible outcome that this issue could cause in...the near future...the far future...of every person that this topic affects....of any instances where this topic has come in the news....what you would do about this topic if you had the chance/power/enough-sugar...any little detail you can think ofThe important thing about this is to think of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, no matter how silly or far-fetched. Reorder everything Put your most obvious argument first. Then put weird off the wall stuff, regardless of importance. Put the strongest argument for your case next. Now list the incidents that will help argue for your point. It's best to keep all this in the form of an outline. Spaces Now print it out. Write Go Back Inside
Learn Basic Drawing Six FREE easy and fun Basic Drawing lessons! The six Basic Drawing Lessons I have created have proven successful for beginning students over the past 40 years I have been an art instructor. I have written step by step, information-rich lessons that are easy to understand and fun to do! Learning drawing skills and techniques is accomplished through exercises that acquaint students with drawing materials first, so that confidence is gained early on and the student is ready for the visual projects. Perhaps you are feeling cautious about drawing. Maybe you've never drawn before, or, you did drawings long ago but something or some one discouraged you and you quit. You may think that drawing is just for those gifted with creative talent. Watch my video of the introductory basic drawing lecture that helps and encourages students like you to learn how to draw! Basic Drawing Lecture Here's the Basic Drawing Course Outline Doodling! "Samantha" Pencil drawing by Lois DeWitt Shading! Draw What You See!
Add some creepiness to your home with a meat-eating clock Looking to really creep out guests to your home? Decorate your living room with a clock that's powered by dead flies. Yep, we're talking about carnivorous furniture here. The carnivorous clock can run for about 12 days on a mere eight dead flies. Here's how it works, as explained by one of its creators: What we have here is a belt. Not too bad! Via NPR
Online Drawing Lessons - Learn to Draw Online for Free Ogling Breasts Increases Men's Lifespans 'Medical study' supposedly published in the New England Journal of Medicine claims staring at women's breasts every day is good for men's health. Description: Satire / Email hoaxCirculating since: March / April 2000Status: FALSE (see details below) Example: Email text contributed by a reader in April 2000: This is not a joke. It came from the New England Journal of Medicine.Great news for girl watchers: Ogling over women's breasts is good for a man's health and can add years to his life, medical experts have discovered. Analysis: Don't get your hopes up, guys. A search of the thousands of peer-reviewed articles contained in the National Institutes of Health medical journal database turns up zero items documenting the health benefits of staring at women's breasts, and, for that matter, zero items authored by "Dr. If the story smacks of supermarket tabloid faux-journalism, well, that's precisely what it is. And it was published yet again by the Nigerian Tribune in April 2013.
Discover How to Draw & Paint Whatever You Want Does your heart stop when you sneeze? (Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts... A sneeze begins with a tickling sensation in the nerve endings that sends a message to your brain that it needs to rid itself of something irritating the lining of your nose. You first take a deep breath and hold it, which tightens your chest muscles. The pressure of air in your lungs increases, you close your eyes, your tongue presses against the roof of your mouth and suddenly your breath comes out fast through your nose. So where did the myth originate that your heart stops when you sneeze? The changing pressure in your chest due to sneezing also changes your blood flow, which may change the rhythm of your heartbeat. Dr. Why do people say, “God bless you,” after someone sneezes? There are varying accounts as to the origin of this response. The expression may have also originated from superstition. Sneeze responses from around the world: Interesting facts: Sneezes are an automatic reflex that can’t be stopped once sneezing starts. For more print resources... Hay fever. Nasal anatomy.
Myers-Briggs Typology System What is the Myers-Briggs System? [back to the top] The Myers-Briggs system is a personality system developed by a mother and daughter team, Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, to help us better understand our innate personality differences. It is an adaptation of the psychological typology of the famous Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Everyone is one and only one of the 16 different Myers-Briggs personality types in this system. There are three terms that you will need to become familiar with in this system if you want to understand it better. Myers-Briggs lists four pairs of opposite preferences. (1) Extraverting (E) versus Introverting (I) Where we prefer to focus our attention and what energizes us (2) Sensing (S) versus iNtuiting (N) How we prefer to take in information (3) Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F) How we evaluate information and make decisions (4) Judging (J) versus Perceiving (P) What lifestyle we prefer What is MY Myers-Briggs Type? There are no right or wrong answers.
Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun - Think... Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun. As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own. But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune. Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption. But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
51 Types of Poetry - All Different Forms This article contains the many different poem types. These include all known (at least to my research) forms that poems may take. If you wish to read more about poetry, these articles might interest you: poetry technique and poetry definition. A poem that has five lines and creates a mood, picture, or feeling. Acrostic Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence. Article continues below... Ballad A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend which often has a repeated refrain. Ballade Poetry which has three stanzas of seven, eight or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five. Blank verse A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter and is often unobtrusive. Bio A poem written about one self's life, personality traits, and ambitions. Burlesque Poetry that treats a serious subject as humor. Canzone Medieval Italian lyric style poetry with five or six stanzas and a shorter ending stanza. Carpe diem Cinquain Concrete
The Sakawa Boys - Motherboard | VBS.TV While Nigeria’s 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what’s going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes of convincing one poor sap they’re the treasurer of the Ivory Coast, Ghana’s scammers decided to stack the odds in their favor the old-fashioned way—witchcraft. Taking a page from cyberpunk, traditional West African Juju priests adapted their services to the needs of the information age and started leading down-on-their-luck internet scammers through strange and costly rituals designed to increase their powers of persuasion and make their emails irresistible to greedy Americans. And so “Sakawa” was born. Now not only is Sakawa Ghana’s most popular youth activity and one of its biggest underground economies, it’s a full-blown national phenomenon. —Watch more at Motherboard.tv