/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6918474
Sure, there's form, and then there's the shape of a form. Form is the most fundamental part of drawing, but it still has a length, width, depth, and a combination of straight lines, C-curve lines, and S-curve lines. Once you can lay down something solid and with mass, now your job is to shape your form into something more sophisticated and true to life.

I think this is best learned by master copies. Be as accurate as possible with your master copies, btw, spend 20 minutes on a single one if you have to. Shape is very closely related to proportion, in fact, they're probably the same.

Shape is also the same as your visual library, because if you think about it, artists can only draw spheres, cylinders, and boxes (primary forms). The only way they can draw different things is if they shape those forms into something else, like moulding clay. The bigger your visual library, the more forms you can draw, the better of an artist you'll be.

tl;dr don't overthink it, and just copy more artists. Do hours of copies every day.

I sketched out pic related for a reason, but then I forgot it. I'll post it anyways lol