Art Knowledge:
Lesson 2 Lines and Shapes
Lines Express the essential form of objects
1. Lines describe forms or objects with outline

2. Lines are movements of the hand that leave a pathway through the picture space.

3. Lines can be expressive and have their own emotional or psychological feelings associated.

4. Lines can be descriptive. Close observation of the world around us reveals remarkable shapes and outlines, some simple, some very complex. Good observation will translate into descriptive outline.

3 dimensional forms include added elements to give us knowledge about its 3 dimensional structures.

Basic 3D volumes include familiar geometric forms such as geometric solids, cubes, cylinders, spheres, pyramids, and irregular masses which combine several basic forms in some way. Biomorphic forms suggest natural objects seen in nature.
Review : E-Z Drawing, Sketching, Studies, Composition
EZ Drawing. Drawing freely without inhibition
Sketching: A version of an image done at times quite quickly, small version of final image. Thumbnail.

Terms: Line movement, outline, shape, contours,
mass, volume, geometric masses, biomorphic
forms, planes, illumination, highlights, shadows, cast shadows.

Places to see the work of great artists.

Art Skills: Lesson 2
Observation of shapes and forms. Attempting to copy descriptive forms with pencil and drawing outline.

One of the most important skills in drawing is to let your eye and mind guide your hand. Your hand reacts to what the brain is telling it to do.

Shapes are formed by outlines, a shape is a two dimensional form, it may or may not be recognizable as a known form.

Review drawing the E-Z way based upon light touch and free arm movement, working lightly at first, and not being too rigid about how the outcome must look.
1. Use free arm movements (as demonstrated on the drawing warm up page.)
2. Drawing with very light pressure, until you have the features that you want; then darker heavier lines. Retrace the same outline for practice to build coordination skills.
3. Being tentative ignoring mistakes allow the forms to evolve. No erasing is necessary if you start lightly.
Your paradigms can inhibit creative progress.
Be ready to think in a new way.
Paradigms are how you think things are and how things have to be. How you interpret reality or the world around you. Example sky is not always blue.

In earlier phases of our drawing we symbolize the subject rather than expressing its descriptive edges, (contours). Good drawing is in part, just learning to express more descriptive line features by looking more closely. Below symbolized tree outlines and descriptive tree outlines.