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All right.

As we start the Art Fundamentals section, we're going to take a look at shape, form and detail.

And this is really just to kind of solidify how you understand the structure of art and to, I

suppose give you some perspectives on how to see art perhaps in three different ways. right.

So the first thing that I'm going to kind of illustrate here, is this triangle and the triangle is

made of three parts. It's kind of like in order of importance right. At the bottom we have shape, in the

middle we have form, and at the top we have details.

All right.

And when we're talking about each of these categories, what we really want to think of is all the

art theory that's related to these three sort of major categories of art.

So shape for example is about composition, it's about your 2D iconographic shapes, it's about the dynamism

of your shapes, it's about the read of your shapes about silhouettes and all those various elements right.

And of course composition is extremely foundational right, it's about the shape of your lights and so on.

Form basically deals with perspective, light and drawing in 3D, in terms of you know, are you establishing

solid forms that makes sense in a space and that space is defined by perspective right.

And then in terms of lighting; are you lighting objects in a way that you can see their form? So form

is related to everything that gives us a perception of 3 dimensionality.

And then lastly, details refers to your textures, literal smaller details of objects as well

as the color, the color of things.

All right.

So the way you kind of want to understand art theory the way art theory is sort of structurally built,

is in this "Shape, Form, Details Model".

Where shape is the most important consideration theoretically, then form and then details.

All right.

But let's just take this, move it to the side here and add another triangle.

There's going to be, we're going to have three triangles, three different ways that you guys should think

about the structure of art right.

Put another triangle here.

Let's just make this a little bit smaller.

So we can fit the third one nicely.

All right.

Now the second kind of way that you want to think about art, so this is the theoretical art hierarchy.

So when you're when you're drawing, you want to think be thinking about shape first, then form, then details

in terms of what is structurally important to the piece. However your implementation theory (implementation

theory).

This is how you actually are going to work, right, how you're practically going to work so we can just

call this practical as well.

Right.

And this is basically shape and form happening simultaneously.

Sorry mind you let's call it form and shape.

That's because.

And then lastly this would be details right.

And the reason it's Form and Shape, is, to the viewer, and we'll do the viewer's triangle just now.

But basically we need to be drawing 3D objects as realist's right.

So we're doing imaginative realism or representational art as it's called.

And so everything we do needs to be three dimensional and make since in time, in space, in a place with

lighting and so on right.

And so we always need forms. But we can see from the theoretical hierarchy that shape is extremely important.

So we need to draw the forms but then let Shape inform the 2D shapes of the form.

So the silhouettes of those forms right.

Nevertheless we'll get into this a little bit deeper later on in terms of when we're doing practical

drawing and things like that.

But it's important to know that we want to approach how we draw like our practical side of drawing as

both Form and Shape happening at the same time. We are thinking about these at the same time.

And then once we've got that down then we do Details right.

And the Details in terms of drawing could really be the refined process and and that would be like clean

lines, and all the details and the nice beautiful hairlines and this would be your rough or your plan

process right.

So here you can see kind of a little picture into the workflow of how we would draw.

We do a rough and a plan, which would embody Form and Shape, and then the refined drawing on top would draw

on those Forms and Shapes that we've done adding the Details to them and then we'd have a nice completed

drawing.

OK.

So just a way to think about it right. This is our theoretical hierarchy.

This is our Implementation Theory and Implementation Hierarchy if you wish.

We start with Form and Shape and then we do Details.

I mean actually let me just really clarify this.

The Details are always a lot simpler to do and once you've got a solid foundation.

So, I think a lot beginner artists, especially they will worry about the details very much.

But this is kind of how we want to kind of weight our work when it comes to actually doing the practical

side of drawing right.

Lots of work on the Forms and the Shapes and then you don't need that much work on the details.

Finish up, although.

Ironically as a side note,

This is really the 80:20 rule so they say 80 percent of the work takes 20 percent of the time to

do so you can see 80 percent of the work here is form and shape.

Yes.

Form and shape it's going to take 20 percent of the time to do.

And conversely the details, even though they're sort of 20 percent of like the thought and the theory

they're going to take 80 percent the time to do because you'll end up spending much more time refining

the drawing.

But, you can only do that on a very solid foundation, right, which is Form and Shape.

Right.

And then the last triangle which is nice and fairly straightforward to understand is how the

viewer sees.

So let's just say the viewer's perspective, And this is important to know.

And just so that you have a kind of a good well-rounded understanding of the sort of, you know, the theoretical

structure of art theory, art practical and also how the viewer sees things. The viewer really sees

things,

I would say, in a combined way, but generally speaking they'll see things kind of as Forms, and this would

be halved like that, I would say. Forms and then Details. Viewers typically, they're not looking at Shape

composition and composition.

I'm talking about you your sort of typical average viewer, even when you yourself are looking at art

works.

And you know you have this mode of art appreciation and that mode is much different from sort of art

analysis. Because when you're looking at a piece that you really like or you've got artwork a little

artwork folder or artwork collection or something, right, or maybe it's a big folder or who knows,

where you've got collected artworks. When you look at stuff that you like you kind of are enamoured

by you or you're sold.

It's managing to persuade you of it's believability and so you're really noticing the forms first and then

the Details second.

And you can kind of see here in this sort of third triangle let's just kind of label these: one, two

and three. Actually perhaps that's not a good idea.

Let's just call it A, B and C right. You'll kind of notice in this third triangle, Why.

Excuse me.

Why

beginners struggle so much when they're starting to draw.

Right.

Because, they are going on what they've seen and what they've only seen and believed to be true about

the world is basically the Forms and the Details and they generally equally weighted.

So they'll kind of try and draw something that looks like a head and then fill it with a million details

You know that's kind of a common beginner problem but nevertheless. How we see things

is different from how we make things, and it's different from the theory of things. So another way to

understand this is kind of the recipe of a cake, right, is quite substantially different from how you

actually make the cake.

Right.

And quite substantially different

that is to how you taste the cake.

Right.

So this kind of an analogy in there and hopefully that's helpful to you.

So this is essentially the kind of structure of art right.

And all artworks really fit into this not just drawing. You know drawings, paintings, landscapes, portraits

and so on, character designs, vehicle designs, everything really kind of falls into this kind of

structure when we're looking at how art is made. nevertheless that is pretty much the end of this lesson.

We're going to move on to technicalities versus emotional impact which is kind of a high level topic

in some senses but hopefully this has helped you understand the structures, and really constantly

revisit this video and especially focus on point 2 as to how we needed to implement Form and Shape

at the same time then details.

And please know that we will get into detail on the shape elements as we move through the course so

you will know what shape really means, what forms really mean what details really mean.

As we move through the course. Cool catch you in the next lesson.