Saturday, September 29, 2007

http://www.hoddinott.com/


Intended Audience:

Those who are interested in learning how to draw or who want to enhance the drawing technique and skills

Usefulness of Content:

This is a super cool website with tons of useful contents about drawings for beginner/intermediate/advanced. As a beginner at an infantile stage of art world in general, I made an attempt to follow each step to imitate the sample drawing. Voila! As I was reading through "resource," "learn to see," "draw with lines," "squirky" "perspectives I"...etc, I found myself following the step with a better understanding on this drawing art itself. A sample drawing for each step chrystalizes what the content is intended to portray. From users' perspective, it is easier to understand the content when there is a visual aid like this website.

Consistency of Design

Well designed for its consistency. When encountering the page for the first time, users can see the overall layout of the contents for each level of drawings. For color scheme for each level of users, the web page maintains the same color indicator throughout the site. For beginner, it is green; for intermediate blue; and for advanced brown. Click the beginner menu source, and you can clearly identify the source you want to find. On the left column is located the menu for each level in accordance with its designed color scheme. Each menu is categorized into each sub section that contains the lesson titles.

Ease of Navigation

Though it is easy to navigate and utilize the web content, there's one thing I found out later that I needed to create an account to implement the site content. My drawspace, drawing lessons, gallary and forums are the top menu bar across each page of the site, which directs the users' attention to their interest area. Consistent color scheme and orderly, hierarchical arrangements of the web content are certainly a boon to easeness of navigation on this web site. The search engine was not available for my drawspace though.

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