Form

Element of Design: Form

Form is very similar to the element of design shape. The difference is that the term is form is used in art work that has three dimensions instead of two as shapes. The three dimensions are length, width and depth.

Look at the forms on the right.

What do they all have in common?
How are they different?
What are the key important things that make a form?

Step 1

Look at your collection of images
Make some of the forms that you can see in plasticine.
Photograph your plasticine models.
Put the photographs on a Google Doc and share it with your teacher.
Print out your model photographs.

Step 2

Cut a strip of white paper and stick it down the left hand side of an A3 piece of brown paper.
Cut out your plasticine / card form pictures and stick them onto this page. Make sure you space them out to give yourself room for sketches and notes.

Step 3

Use drawing pencil, white, brown and black pencils and black pen to draw what you see in the photographs of your models.
Draw in 3D and use shading to describe the form.
Write notes in bullet point format to DESCRIBE what you see.