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In this article, Linda shows how variety in form and in texture provides your drawings with more interest. She also emphasizes how little texture you really need to draw when you incorporate depth into your pieces. Finally, you’ll learn how to incorporate some ‘style’ into your drawings, or learn how your perception of objects is individual and yours alone.
Read MoreIn the previous article, Linda showed how everything that you draw can be reduced to forms. She also introduced you to depth, and how that depth can be mimicked through drawing through on the forms rather than drawing outlines or shapes. In this tutorial, she takes you further into depth and also into composition, so you can begin to control your drawings.
Read MoreHow to use the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit library to create a menu that is expandable and collapsible and can be dragged around the page.
The ability to integrate Ajax functionality into web applications has brought about revolutionary changes in the presentation of common user interface elements. Nearly every web application follow the same basic structure and pattern of presentation with navigation menus, an area for content, possibly a footer and various ways of selecting and viewing data.
Read MoreIf you're a Flash developer, you've probably heard of or even worked with Flex. The Flex 2 framework provides a very flexible way to develop SWF applications. You can build simple applications like calculators that don’t use any data from outside sources. You can also build more complex applications that take their content from text or XML documents or even from a database.
Read MoreWelcome back to part two of the jQuery menu tutorial. In part one we looked at a scaleable solution to adding submenu indicators and an easy jQuery replacement to CSS rollovers. In this part we're going to look at enhancing the appearance of the menu with drop shadows on the submenus, as well as adding a little dynamism with AJAX generated submenus.
We continue our travel through the land of jQuery by looking at a solution which tackles one of the oldest web designs challenges; the humble navigation menu. We looked at creating navigation menus based on traditional web design methods, but like everything that you throw at jQuery, the library gives back improved functionality and lighter code in half the time, as we'll see during the course of this tutorial.
Read MoreNow that you have the human form down, Linda wants to take you beyond figures and drapery and into still life and landscapes. But, before you go there, you’ll need to learn more about form and depth and composition. In addition, you probably want to learn how to develop some texture in your work. But, first things first – this article is about how to find forms in everything you want to draw, and how to develop depth with those forms.
Read MoreHow to use the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit to animate a fade out/fade in effect on a DataGrid control in ASP.NET 2.0
As the internet continues to evolve each day new websites are appearing more and more that are able to look and behave like desktop applications. The web development technologies available today are extremely robust and flexible, and capable of creating very impressive user interfaces.
Read MoreA common task for developers is providing a way for people to print out the contents of a Flex application. Often, you'll want to print out something that looks different from what's on the screen – maybe a simplified version of the data or the interface. The good news is that you can do this using Flex 2.
Read MoreWelcome to Part 2 of the content box tutorial. In the first part we looked at embedding a single box of content on our page. In this part, we're going to look at having multiple boxes on the same page. We can't just use and build upon the same code that we ended Part 1 with because there were too many assumptions made by the code. The new buttons that were dynamically added following an expansion or collapse of the box, for example, were just added to all instances of <div> elements with a class of .title, knowing that this would only refer to one element.
Read MoreHow to integrate the suite of Validation controls in ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0 web applications
Welcome to the second and final part of this two part series regarding how to implement the suite of validation controls available in ASP.NET. During Working with Validation Controls in ASP.NET Part 2 we will expand upon the sample application we began building during Part 1 and finish examining the remaining controls available for validation.
Read MoreThis is the third in the series about how to draw clothing. In the previous two articles, Linda demonstrated how to draw folds, the seven folds and their variations, and how they worked in men’s clothing. In this last article on how to draw garments, Linda will demonstrate how and why women’s clothing is different than men’s garments. In addition, she’ll introduce you to fashion illustration.
When you learn how to draw, you'll see the world around you in a different perspective.Linda Goin takes you on a creative journey, where you'll discover the world on paper.
Draw the human figure, motion, clothing, folds, shadings and last but not least learn allyou need to know about composition.
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