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Define: Line
- -Describes the edge of something
- -Non-exsistent
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Define: Silhouette
- -Silhouette = shadow
- -Featureless on the inside
- -Outer edge
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Contour Line
A thin, crisp line that is definite to what it is 
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Blind Contour Line
- Produced without looking at paper
- Looking at what is being drawn but not actual drawing
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Variations of Line
Different types of line
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Space
The distance of an area between, around, above, below or within something.
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Positive Space
- The space in which the drawing is taking up
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Negative Space
- The space that is not taken up by the drawing
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- (black space)
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Illusion of Space
When a painting creates an illusion of the amount of space it has
What is actually being painted
example: a painting of a open beach vs. a painting of a lady in a chair = beach, more space.
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Texture
The feeling an object has, ex. smooth, rough, hard, shiny, soft
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Implied Texture
When things look smooth/ rough but in reality they are not because they are on a 2D surface.
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Real Texture
the texture you can touch. ex. if actual sand was placed on a painting it's real texture.
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Form
Something that has 3 dimensions
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Implied Form
When a value makes an object look 3D on a 2D surface
- (Looks like it has 3 dimensions but it doesn't because its on a flat surface)
- ***VALUE IS NEEDED TO CREATE IMPLIED FORM***
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Real Form
- Exists in 3 dimensions
- You can hold it
- Object
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3 Dimensions
Length/width/height
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Shape
- Made by edges, textures, lines etc
- Can be geometric or organic
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Organic/Irregular Shape
- Unusual, non symmetrical.
- Opposite of geometric
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Geometric Shape
- Obvious, regular, symmetrical.
- Square
- Circle
- Triangle
- Cylinder
- etc
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What is color?
- Comes from light
- Everything has a chemical reaction to light, and your eye picks up on this creating color.
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Primary Colors
You cannot produce primary colors by mixing
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What are the primary colors?
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Secondary Colors
Colors that are produced by mixing primary colors
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What are the secondary colors?
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What is the center of the color wheel?
Light
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Tertiary Colors
Made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color
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What are the six tertiary colors?
- Red-Orange
- Yellow-Orange
- Red-Violet
- Yellow-Green
- Blue-Violet
- Blue-Green
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Label
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Color Schemes
An arrangement of colors that make harmony when mixed
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Monochromatic
1 color, 1 hue
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Analogous
Next to each other on color wheel that share a common hue
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Complementary
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel
Opposites=Complements
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Hue
Subcategory of color
ex. yellow-red & yellow-orange = different hue
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Tint
Adding white to color paint to create lighter values
LIGHTEN
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Value Scale
A scale that shows the gradual change in value
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Full Value Range
Complete darkness to complete whiteness
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Gradation
Type of variety
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Emphasis
Putting together two extremes to create contrast
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Contrast
Two differences
ex. dark value next to light value
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Harmony
A balance between unity and variety, ultimate goal of art work
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Variety
Many different things, plays a part in harmony.
Too much can result in chaos
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Unity
Things working together, similar.
Too much = boring
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Thumbnail Sketch
Small simple drawing, not detailed
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Picture plane
Surface that image exists on
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Pencil scale
- 6H - lightest/hardest
- HB - neutral
- 6B - darkest/softest
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