All right so in this lecture we're going to be talking about shape or also known as shape language.
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Now everything that we see and draw can kind of be broken down into three basic types of shapes.
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And that is going to be triangles squares and circles so squares can be rectangles or squares and circles
that could be ovals and so on and so forth but everything we see can kind of be broken down into these
basic shapes and each of these basic shapes kind of have a certain feel or different ideas associated
with them as a symbol.
So for example triangles they tend to be sharp and dangerous fast aggressive confident if we think of
some things that have a lot of triangles in them.
You can think of fighter jets very pointy lots of sharp edges that make them feel very aggressive very
quick right spaceship's a lot of times you associate with that or if you look at the animal kingdom
you can see sharks crocodiles love things that have all these triangles shapes look very scary and aggressive
and dangerous because we associate these triangles with those ideas in our head.
Can we look at squares or rectangles.
They tend to be associated with being solid confident sturdy authoritative or even sometimes dumb.
So if we look at some things like a building for example most buildings are pretty square and they feel
really solid right.
If we look at the type of designs that have a lot of SCIF things sometimes when they want a ship to
feel really massive and solid it will have a lot more square edges than the smaller faster ships which
have a lot of triangles like in the animal kingdom you could see elephants they have a lot of squares
going along in them.
And we'll look at some pictures and I'll trace amounts.
You can see I'm talking about.
And then the last one is circles so circles they tend to make it feel soft safe innocent fun.
You can also add to that list Divine.
Sometimes if you're trying to create a religious sort of feel or symbol or divine feeling.
Circles are used for that as well.
And then also circles tend to become the center of attention and a lot of things that's where a lot
of people tend to focus if there's a circle in the image.
So let's go through I'm sort of looking at some of these.
So this one is obviously going to be triangles so we look here we'll trace some of these out.
We're going to get breast vertigo so that there was a crocodile you could see he's made up almost completely
of triangles right.
All of these fins on his back are all triangles.
His tail is one big triangle.
Even his feet kind of come into triangles cause they're all triangles all the spikes on his back.
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Pretty much his whole body is made up of triangles.
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And he looks the part.
He looks aggressive.
He looks dangerous.
He looks like he'd buy your handoff right.
Let's like the wolf same thing.
Lots of triangles in the shape of his mouth is one big triangle his nose is a triangle shape.
Right is ears.
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Now obviously not everything in the image is going to be exactly only one thing.
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There's lots of different shapes that make stuff up and you have to mix and match to get where you're
looking for.
Just make sure you're doing it consciously and being aware of it because the more where you are the
more deliberate You can be in your designs.
Same with the fabric if we look at him right triangles everywhere.
His whole body is basically two big triangles.
His friends are all triangles.
I mean a circus basically just straight triangles.
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So those triangles Let's go onto squares.
So we have some animals here that are basically scratched this bulldog just looking at him.
He is just a bunch of blocks right.
A bunch of rectangles his muzzle is basically a square shape.
His head right.
His legs are just big long rectangles.
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And then his body.
Now obviously this bulldog is not a perfect square right.
He has lots of curves.
His head is not a perfect rectangle it kind of curves down but the overall shape that we get from the
impression of it is kind of a box shape.
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Same with his body.
It obviously has curves it's not perfect like if we trace it out it's pretty curvy in reality.
But the overall impression it gives is a box compared to other things right.
So some of the elephant head is a box ears or pretty box like its body.
Pretty big box its feet or just big rectangles right.
Lots of boxes and then same with the tortoise.
Definitely a huge box.
His feet just big old huge tree trunks half the box had pretty boxy body.
Right.
So that's box and where squares rectangles and then the last of them will look at is circles OK.
So like we said circles can be cute fun safe right.
Erde not polar bears Scuse me panda bears they're huge bears right.
I mean they should be scary.
It's a bear.
But they aren't.
They look so cute because look at them they're full of circles.
Only circles everywhere.
His eyes have big oval shapes.
His muzzle is a pretty circular type shape.
His ears his head even like his paws and everything are pretty overly right.
There's nothing on it's really super sharp angles or you know really boxy.
He just feels fluffy and fun to be around right.
So circle's can have a pretty significant impact on our perception of things.
Same with his little baby penguin.
Right this big ovals is these areas are big circles.
They make them look adorable and I assume that the ladybug most bugs are kind of icky and gross but
something about the ladybug makes him seem a bit more disarming and that's because he's made up of completely
circles right.
His body is made up of circles and then on his body he actually has circles printed onto his body and
the animal kingdom that's to help him warn other animals that he doesn't taste good to eat but to us
it just makes him look disarming and somewhat cute.
So when you're drawing and painting and doing stuff make sure you keeping that in mind.
What do you watch.
What's the predominant shaping going to be using or what do you want people to feel.
Is your drawings supposed to be like a drawing a big solid sturdy building that has to be like a warehouse
and you probably are going to want to use a lot of rectangular shapes.
Are you drawing some sort of a predator that lives in a jungle that's really fast and aggressive You
probably going to want these triangles right.
So it just depends on what it is you're going for.
But just make sure you're deliberate about it and sort of just kind of letting whatever you come into
your head just go through without being processed right.
Because that's going to help but take a cue from an amateur to a pro is not just having like a stream
of consciousness not even thinking about where you're drawing but being able to make deliberate decisions
about your sketches that are going to help improve their quality quite a bit.
So that's it the those lecture and I'll see you guys in the next one.