How to Draw Interesting Shapes
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How to Draw Interesting Shapes
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Learn more about shape design in the full Drawing Basics course! You’ll get full access to more lessons, assignments, demonstrations, and critique videos.


Breathe life back into your basic shapes with these concepts!

I'll show you how to make shapes interesting and dynamic using concepts like gesture, variety, contrast, complexity, symmetry, tension, and balance. We'll explore simple yet powerful techniques to make boring forms more dynamic. See how shifting peaks, tilting axes, and asymmetric details can help you stop drawing those boring shapes.

Thumbnail artwork by Eliza Ivanova


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Stan Prokopenko
In this lesson I'll show you how to make shapes interesting and dynamic using concepts like gesture, variety, contrast, complexity, symmetry, tension, and balance. I'll start with a boring shape and introduce a new concept one at a time to make it more alive with movement and energy.
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Hi! Thank you so much for this lesson. I think it really helped me understand how to approach designing shapes. It shed a lot of light on the process. I'm also sharing a small shape study based on drawings by Jordi Bernet. All the best and warm wishes to everyone!
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