Chapter 3
Forceful Shape
John Ruggieri and the late Jack Potter, both of whom were instructors at the School of Visual Arts, helped me to recognize shapes in life. This made me curious about their expressiveness and efficiency. It is exciting to see the world in shapes. Everything has shape.
Let’s make believe that we are looking through filters when drawing. In Chapter 1, the filter we peered through was force and its different aspects. The previous chapter’s filter was form and some pictorial tricks that gave us space. This chapter’s filter is shape. Shape exists because of the first two filters.
Shape gives us immediate width. Shapes can ...
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