2. Shape

Ready to use, no prep: teach the element of shape with 23 illustrated slides, from geometric and organic shapes to positive and negative space. Students learn to simplify what they see into shapes and use them in observational drawing.

Ready to use. No prep. Simply beautiful.

Open the file and start teaching. This Shape deck is fully finished and classroom-ready, with nothing to build, edit or rearrange, so you can spend your time with students instead of making slides. Every slide is designed in a rich artistic style, with botanical borders, elegant vintage lettering and detailed sketchbook-style illustrations. The drawings and illustrations inside the deck inspire students with new ideas for their own artwork. Professional, polished and as beautiful as the art you teach.

Shape is where drawing begins. This deck moves from definitions to seeing and drawing, so students finish ready to build objects, plants, animals and faces out of simple shapes.

What’s inside

What is shape? (shape vs. form) Geometric vs. organic, regular and irregular, open and closed shapes Positive and negative shape Repeating shapes and pattern, shape variation, overlapping shapes The psychology of shape, and cropping Simplify what you see, and build objects with shapes Observational drawing: still life, plants and animals, faces and figures Shapes in architecture Shape Composition Challenge

Ways to use it

Open a unit on shape or observational drawing Pair the step-by-step slides with a follow-along drawing demo Assign the Shape Composition Challenge as the unit project

What you get

23-slide PowerPoint (.pptx), 16:9 widescreen Two title slides: one branded, one plain for classroom use An illustrated definition slide Slides are high-resolution images and are not editable

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