When we first begin to draw, it’s common to represent what we see using lines. However, lines don’t exist in nature. Everything that we see is, in reality, just varying shapes of colour. Once we realise this simple truth we run into a problem. Shapes on their own appear 2D, but when we look at the world we perceive 3D forms. So how can we express these?
Many students will try to express form by adding more and more value shapes, which often results in broken-up and over-modelled art. However, we now know that the simpler our values, the stronger
