THE SHAPE

SHAPE: It is the external appearance of an object or element in a image.

NATURAL SHAPES: They are the ones related to nature. They haven´t been created by any human.

ARTIFICIAL SHAPES: Shapes created by humans.

ORGANIC SHAPES/ FREE FORMS: Shapes have irregular silhouette as their inner surface. Organic shapes are usually natural even thougth they are sometimes artificial.

GEOMETRIC SHAPES: Shapes whose parts follow a mathemathic order, laws or pattern.

FLAT SHAPES: They have two dimensional such a paper sheet, a cinema screen or a canvas.  

FORM: They are volumetric shapes, they appear and are three-dimensional.

OUTLINE: It´s the contour of the shape.

SILHOUETTE: It is a shape filled up with a solid colour.

INFILL: The inner part of a shape.