Shape, Volume, and Form

 Part 1

After looking through the design principles on shape and volume I learned many things.

The word shape can also be called a form, originally a shape is known as an enclosed line that colors and or values are used to show edges and ultimately create the shape. The definition of form is more so what's known as color, texture and composition. Now going into the figure and ground aspect of it all, a figure is known as an object and the ground is how far shapes are from each other so essentially the space between them. From my understanding on predominance of a shape it’s a 2-D design that organizes the shapes and where they are placed. Mass and Volume are mostly used in 3-D pieces to really make that illusion of the shapes popping out, ultimately shapes are masses in the 3-D world. Something new I learned was that installation art is a form of art that uses both 2 and 3-D. Now on to naturalism and distortion, naturalism is making a piece look as similar as you can to the original thing and distortion is when all the forms are exaggerated. Distortion is used for the expressive aspect to come across either to be funny or dramatic and make an obvious point on what you want your art to show, something that uses this is called kitsch that I didn’t know but I see it all over. idealism is used to make the quote on quote perfect forms. Abstraction is a form of art that I personally really like but I just didn’t know the name of it but it’s the form of art where you make the basic form but don’t add so many details and make it look as natural and minimalistic as possible. Biomorphic shapes are kinda what it sounds like, morphed shapes that are made to look more natural. Nonobjective shapes are more so geometric forms so more so patterns and things like that.Curvilinear shapes are what's often seen in still lifes and animations. Art Nouveau is a style of art that really enhances curves and the naturalness of a shape. Rectangular shapes are exactly what it sounds like, straight lines that connect with sharp edges. Positive shapes are the main shapes in the piece and negative shapes are essentially where the shapes are placed on the foreground. Isolation and integration is what makes up the positives and negatives in a piece. Lastly this is also one of my favorite forms of art to look at specifically, it's called ambiguity and that’s when there are multiple shapes with negative shapes that end up making multiple focal points that have I guess you could say hidden images.

 

Part 2

For my first exercise I did like the basic introduction to sketching 2-D and 3-D shapes and that went well. It would go through the whole process of transformation which was cool to see, it was a bit time consuming and repetitive but that's okay because I enjoyed it.

For my second exercise I did the 3-D forms and the shading and shadowing and that was fun, there were some that I enjoyed doing more than others but overall it was cool to see what some simple shading and shadowing can do to a piece! 

For my third and final exercise I did the fruit drawing with the squiggle going through the image, I didn't do the coloring part of it but more so just the shapes and lines and it turned out looking pretty cool because it's kind of trippy in a way and it was also different putting almost like a scribble through your finished piece because that's not typically done with the finished product.