Drawing Shapes & Forms
Bible:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
God is the First Creator
Have you ever wondered where all the colors, shapes, and patterns in the world came from? God created them as a part of His design for the universe and the earth. He made the world with a variety of shapes and forms in order to show His greatness as the First Creator.
(from Thomas Kinkade's Drawing Basics and Barry Stebbing's God & Christian Artists)
Have you ever wondered where all the colors, shapes, and patterns in the world came from? God created them as a part of His design for the universe and the earth. He made the world with a variety of shapes and forms in order to show His greatness as the First Creator.
(from Thomas Kinkade's Drawing Basics and Barry Stebbing's God & Christian Artists)
Objectives:
In this lesson you will explore how an artist draws shapes and uses them to create a realistic object. You will use simple shapes to create a drawing, identify 2D & 3D items in a drawing, and combine simple shapes to create forms that appear 3D.
Shapes are 2D: they are flat, having only height & width.
Forms are 3D: they have height, width, and depth.
The key to making a flat drawing look 3D is finding all of the shapes that make up the form.
Shapes are 2D: they are flat, having only height & width.
Forms are 3D: they have height, width, and depth.
The key to making a flat drawing look 3D is finding all of the shapes that make up the form.
Materials:
Magazines, white construction paper, glue sponges, pencils, erasers
Process:
- watch this video:
All objects have a distinct shape. It is important when drawing realistic to draw what you see, not what you think you see.
- look through magazines and cut out pictures of 3 simple objects
- fold a piece of white construction paper in half lengthwise; open and fold in 3rds widthwise; open and lay out flat
- glue pictures in the three blocks on the left side of the paper; carefully study each picture; draw the simple shapes that create the picture on the blocks on the right side
- watch these videos:
Form is a shape in 3 dimensions. It has width, height, and depth.
- examine the 3D forms in the classroom
- on a piece of construction paper practice drawing the following 3D forms: cube, cylinder, cone, ball (sphere), pyramid
- on a separate piece of construction paper draw a still life arrangement of boxes
Standards:
- VA:Cr2.1
- VA:Cr3.1