7 Ways Simple Shapes Can Improve Your Drawings
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We're moving on to SHAPES! Shapes are a fundamental element of visual language, in fact, it's not possible to make a picture without them! In this lesson we’ll introduce shape language, the idea that shapes have “personalities” and can convey different ideas. Simplifying shapes will be a crucial skill you’ll need to tackle as an artist, as it makes it easier to judge proportions, fix mistakes, invent new poses, among many other reasons. As you get better with basic shapes you’ll be able to build on complexity by combining simple shapes and adding relevant details to design engaging and recognizable characters or objects.
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Martin Dubček
3mo
KISS!
Sita Rabeling
4mo
Something round and something spiky combined - I think.
Sorry, I’ll wait until the next lesson now…

kungfufrogz
4mo
Very cool Stan is ready to tackle the Kangaroo again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN5ZlqfIF3M
Sita Rabeling
4mo
A still from the Doc Martin tv series.
I thought it’s an image that has ‘round and cute’ in it. - Was trying for more caricature or cartoony, but guess I need more experience for that.

Andrea Böhm
4mo
Well done - round and cuddlesome!
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pedrobranco
4mo
Keep it simple. Guess I'mma start copying Dexter's Lab.
André Machado
4mo
Learned alot with the line videos but I feel shape design is so important to make drawings look unique and professional. Can't wait for the next videos.

Dennis Yeary
4mo
Man i am excited about i feel this will make my art jump leap and bounds

tenohmach
4mo
New section time! Here’s hoping I can improve here like I did with my linework.
Eric A
4mo
Hooray for shapes, looking forward to making more easily readable characters. Seem to always get bogged in the details, making it hard to fix mistakes. Also, Stan your personal trainer must be the best! lol

Geert-Jan
4mo
LET"S GOOOOOOOO
Chris Padilla
4mo
Very excited for this section!! Great intro!

VAGABOND
4mo
I VAGABOND am going TO DESTROY these SHAPES only to create NEW COMPLEX SHAPES

Adrian Potato
4mo
Can we all agree that bears and orcas are natures biggest design blunder? Like they look way to cute and cuddly for the fact that they would straight up kill you if you come to close to them. Should have put some triangles on them smh
Juice
4mo
😅
Zi A
4mo
This came out just as I finished catching up, really looking forward to this section of the course.

Becky
4mo
So excited to see what's next!
Zach Pipher
4mo
Shape was the section I was most excited to get to, although I learned so much more then I thought I would with line, I was anxiously awaiting for the shape section to start. I hope I can continue to glean as much information from shape and practice my heart out to be able to see shapes in the world effectively enough to be able to break any object down as I learn things like anatomy.
Joel Room
4mo
Looking forward to this!
Zach Pipher
4mo
Oh yay! New section! I'm super excited
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