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5 Card Flikr stories

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. This web site is designed to foster visual creativity by making stories out of photos You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to your building set of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 - tell a story in pictures. Based on your 5 images, you will be tasked to write a story. When completed, you will title and save your stories. You will then be able to copy the link and place it on your own blog Example 1 - It's all a Blur Example 2 - A drifter in the wind Click here to get started ***  Please be sure to describe what the link is for – no one wants to look at a blank blog post with a unknown link Also – when adding a link, please title it while embedding the link so that it is evident what the link is bringing the viewer to. Get started on your visual storytelling!
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Drawing Hands Select one of the options below.  Use Pen & Ink, Conté Crayon, or Soft Pastel or Oil Pastel.  You may choose color using realistic skin tones or crazy colors  or B/W .  But be aware that drawing hands are THE most difficult part of the human body to draw. Many budding artists I know go to herculean lengths to avoid drawing them. They’re just so COMPLICATED and if anything is off, even a little bit, it’s painfully obvious. However, once you’ve mastered drawing hands, you can add that to your superpowers. Remember, “draw what you SEE, not what your brain thinks it should look like.” Also, look at the NEGATIVE SPACE between the fingers! Get those shapes right and you will also have drawn the hand correctly. Option One:  1 GIANT hand-  at least 5 to 6 times larger than life  Instructions:  1.  The position of the hand must be “difficult”- fingers bent, slanted, foreshortened, etc.  No...