7 Ways Simple Shapes Can Improve Your Drawings

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Published 2023-06-16
Shapes are a fundamental element of visual language, in fact, it's not possible to make a picture without them! In this lesson we’ll introduce shape language, the idea that shapes have “personalities” and can convey different ideas. Simplifying shapes will be a crucial skill you’ll need to tackle as an artist, as it makes it easier to judge proportions, fix mistakes, invent new poses, among many other reasons. As you get better with basic shapes you’ll be able to build on complexity by combining simple shapes and adding relevant details to design engaging and recognizable characters or objects.

Prioritizing and learning these concepts is essential and if you want to get better with shapes consider getting the premium course. In the premium course we’ll have additional lessons covering both accuracy and design so that you can speak with shapes in the visual language - proko.com/drawing

00:00 - Intro
03:22 - Shape Language
04:57 - Start Simple
10:15 - Build Complexity
13:32 - Outro

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Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high-quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.


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Artist | Instructor - Stan Prokopenko (www.stanprokopenko.com/)
Producer - Stan Prokopenko, Sean Ramsey (www.peoplewhodrawstuff.com/),
Script - Stan Prokopenko, Tiffanie Mang (tiffaniemang.com/)
Production Assistance - Stephen Clark (www.peppermintgentleman.com/ , Sean Ramsey, Charlie Nicholson
Editing - Hongju Lim (www.hongjulim.com/, Sean Ramsey, Stan Prokopenko
Publishing - Alex Otis, John Birchall

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Additional music by Epidemic Sound
All Comments (21)
  • @DEADEYESpress
    As always, your videos here are "simple to understand", with "steps" and "demonstration". I hope your courses will do the same, I don't like "blah blah or watch the pro do it" (I'm kind of a "practical person"). Thank you Proko and team! 🥰
  • @lumaAJ
    Thanks for explain the meaning of shape. In Portuguese, my form language, we don't have a specific word that translate it. 3D and 2D has the same word: Forma.
  • @winklerdraws
    It's such a joy to discover more about a subject I take for granted, it always shows me how much I yet to discover
  • @anyelydraws
    Me encantan este tipo de videos! Son muy informativos, fácil de comprender, y sobre todo me motivan a dibujar ✨ Thank you Proko! 🥰
  • @user-zn9uz1ij8q
    Thank you so much for the subtitles! And those tips are clear to understand and nice explaining
  • @nondumbgd
    That gift wrapping method is just genious. You got me into it.
  • @watsak6840
    Thank you SO MUCH! Love love love your lessons and ideas taught here 😍😍😍 also, I signed up for drawing basics already! Now at the plane drawing project, thank you again❤
  • @anathriel7480
    In geometry, shapes define the outline or the boundary of an object. A shape is defined for an object or any external surface or boundary, apart from other properties such as colour or material type. For example, a blue ball, made up of rubber materials is round in shape. lol
  • @madiko
    Wow, Stan, I love to see you and proko thrive. Learned a lot and would like to dive deep into the course, but well, my main focus now is climate action and so I enjoy the ride and spread the word about your amazing art school as wide as possible. Happy accidents and good success 😘
  • @danielandersson4155
    Wish i had you as a theatcher back in The days..😅 Love your videos on youtube Keep up the Great job
  • @elizzypons8042
    Woah this actually help me im so surprised after learing this so now i dont make more mistake in drawing