A Couple Suggestions
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Side Shave Laura
Hey team, The website looks amazing! I'm so excited to see everything you've been working on for years! I ran into a couple bugs earlier, but they've been patched in the last few days. What I love: Thank you for lining up all the Assignment Examples and adding buttons to skip through the timeline efficiently. This is super useful when returning to the exercise the following day. That feedback/discussion is tied to every lesson. A couple suggestions I have from browsing the Beta site, and hanging out in the Figure Drawing and Anatomy groups on Facebook: Could you find a place to explain the flair associated with the usernames? (the crown on Stan etc ... ) Under each lesson, you could change "Discussion" to "Submit My Work" it's more actionable and encourages students to post. (unless discussion is only for questions, then just make them separate categories) Under each lesson you could add another tab "Exceptional Student Work" that is determined by the instructor. It's similar to Stan's videos that critique work, but those videos are static. If you add a new tab, students have something to strive for. It would be an accomplishment to have work selected. A way to further segment students. It's great to have the forums to discus with the larger community, but maybe you could sign up to "accountabili-buddy" groups. In the real world, you can just walk up to folks in the same classroom, but online, we have no idea who else is working on what. So idea: once a month, you can opt into a group that focuses on a segment: gesture, caricature, forearms ... it wouldn't be governed so there's no energy spent guiding students. But there is an organization structure, like a mini-forum or a chat function. And the group sets it's own goals and schedule. It would be wonderful to have a "Where Should I begin?" quiz or forum. From personal experience, I started the Anatomy class and I've backed up to Figure Drawing, and then further into foundational skills. The time spent in anatomy wasn't wasted, but I sure wish I'd just gotten some basic skills first, and I often see this in the FB groups too. Folks are excited to tackle the shoulder girdle, and they don't know how to draw a confident line. Or they're working on robo-beans, and they don't know how to draw a box. Proko Challenges! I hear that you're kicking this around, some ideas - 100 mannequins from the Proko models. Pick 10 choreographers and do 10 gesture drawings for each to capture their style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_choreographers Draw a bean of the woman who have been on the cover of Vogue Magazine (photos start in the 1940s) https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/vogue-september-issue-cover-photos-history Draw 100 robo-beans based on marble statues at your museum. (if this is valuable, I can drop into the Smithsonian when it’s open again and collect images for a digital collection here) Draw the face of every actor and actress that has won an Academy Award Caricature every comedian that has done a Netflix special.
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Stan Prokopenko
@Laura Gingrich Thank you so much for all your suggestions! I'm sorry I missed this when you initially posted it. I hope the lack of responses didn't discourage you from continuing to beta test! You have a lot of good suggestions and I've added many of them to my list. Thank you!
@pinkapricorn
@Stan Prokopenko Did you also get her suggestion to allow text formatting on the forum? I very strongly second that. :)
Side Shave Laura
Adding a new suggestion: allow formatting of text in the forum. I had bolded and numbered suggestions for readability but alas, it posted as a block of text.
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