rectangle triangle square circle these
are the shapes right okay I guess we're
done here wait wait there's so much more
to it than just that hey welcome back to
mr. news art class it's wonderful to see
your smiling faces today shape is the
second element of art and design the
basic shapes that we learned about in
kindergarten are super useful and
there's lots that artists can do with
just these shapes however there's a
whole lot that we need other types of
shapes for too so what exactly is a
shape it's simply a combination of lines
that come together to create a closed
area and if you watched last week's
video link in the description you'll
know that lines come in all different
styles that means that shapes do too you
can even make up your own shapes by
putting different types of lines
together and seeing what happens the
shapes that most people think of squares
triangles rectangles etc are what we
call geometric shapes these are shapes
that are made out of straight lines and
have boxy corners geometric shapes are
the kinds that you see in most man-made
structures such as bricks windows kites
stairs etc they don't have to be regular
though sometimes they have lots of
little lines dipping in and out and
making interesting crevices on the other
hand shaped like circles ovals and
crescents use curved lines instead of
straight ones we call these organic
shapes because they have a lot in common
with the shapes we see in nature these
can also be manipulated into irregular
shapes with lots of loopy segments or
sharp claw like corners in both
classifications geometric and organic we
can make subcategories of regular or
irregular shapes regular shapes follow
mathematical rules such as squares
having sides of equal length whereas
irregular shapes often appear more messy
because there aren't any rules for
making them we can also combine both
straight and curved lines into a single
shape making it both
metric and organic or would it be
neither G organic or de metric whatever
you call them they have very interesting
qualities because the straight and the
curved edges juxtaposed against each
other to create a variety of different
feelings now I know you've all been in a
math class where your teacher told you
that a shape has to be closed if there's
even the tiniest gap where two lines
should be but aren't connecting then
it's not a shape well when you're in
math class do what your math teacher
says but when you're in mr. news art
class make art in art work we often find
shapes that not only have broken edges
but are sometimes completely implied and
not really there at all for example take
a look at these works by Claude Monet in
this painting
Monet used the shape of the train
station to literally frame the image
with the shape of a Pentagon even though
those lines are broken and can't be seen
in several areas your eyes connect them
together to finish the shape and in
paintings like Monet's haystacks the
simple arrangement of objects is enough
to create the illusion of large scale
shapes even though none of the lines in
this triangle are actually painted into
this picture we see that the haystacks
fill this triangular composition shapes
can be used by themselves
or they can be grouped together with
other shapes and if they're put together
the right way they'll even make 3d forms
which is another element that we'll talk
about in a few weeks while we're
mentioning the other elements shapes can
be empty or they can be filled with the
other elements such as value texture or
color shapes are literally everywhere
you look and they do all sorts of things
look around you and think about the
kinds of shapes that you see do you see
any that we haven't mentioned in this
video leave a comment down below and let
me know what kinds of shapes you see and
what kind of you prefer using in your
artwork
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