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Facial proportions for cartooning, with Peter Emslie, part 2 of 2

Here's part one of the first episode of vablearn, where Peter Emslie shows facial proportions for cartooning, but now with a female face.

Peter Emslie films first episodes

Tuesday, veteran cartoonist Peter Emslie dropped by the Visual Arts Brampton Creative Arts Studios. Consequently, we filmed the first four episodes of vablearn, comprising of two lessons. These episodes will be posted on the vablearn YouTube channel, as soon as they're edited.

Previously, we've done screen tests of Peter, as well as Keith Moreau, who taught perspective in the segments.

A side remark, it's amazing how long it takes to render video, at full 1080i HD. Ultimately, we'd love to have the two lessons posted online as just two episodes, but YouTube won't accept videos over 10 minutes long. To do that, you need to have Partner status. For that, you need eyeballs. A catch-22 for us, it seems. Fingers-crossed that we'll qualify for this status.

Facial proportions for cartooning, with Peter Emslie, part 1 of 2

Here's part one of the first episode of vablearn, where Peter Emslie shows facial proportions for cartooning.

vablearn video project back up and running

After much delay, due to an array of technical issues, vablearn is back up and running at "full steam ahead". Funded by a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the project will see the creation of dozens of free art instructional videos.

Videos will be available for viewing online, as streaming content, and will hopefully be seen through a variety of other outlets.