SHAPE: Inventory

Noah Wilkinson

Jana Guenther

Class began with another Line Drawing.  The purpose of this drawing was to investigate line quality and to create a sense of depth.  Students made compositions of pure shapes (i.e. circles, squares, rectangles and half circles). Then the entire image area was filled with horizontal or vertical parallel lines.  The method was to use thick, thin, light and dark lines.  Students tried to create depth and define the shapes with the varying line quality in the parallel lines instead of outlining the shapes.

Next we discussed the characteristics and types of shape. Shapes basically fall under two categories: Geometric and Organic.  Geometric shapes are rectangles, squares, circles, etc.  Organic shapes are irregularly shaped; biomorphic or amoebic. Forms from nature are organic as well (i.e. leaves, rocks, people, etc.).

From there we made Shape Inventory studies.  Similar to the Line Inventory, students started with simple renderings of the various types of shapes gradually becoming more dynamic as they moved down the columns of the template.