Sketchbooks & Drawing
The Language of Art
Line
Shape, Form, & Space
Color, Value, & Texture
100
This can be used to try out ideas and experiment with different materials and drawing techniques.
What is a sketchbook?
100
These are the basic visual symbols in the language of art.
What are the elements of art?
100
This is the element of art that is the path of a moving point through space.
What is line?
100
These are irregular or uneven shapes, also known as organic shapes.
What are free-form shapes?
100
You can use a color and it's ___________ (lighter values) and ___________ (darker values) to create a monochromatic color scheme.
What are tints and shades?
200
These people, who draw the pictures in books, use drawing as a vehicle for visual and creative thinking, and to communicate their ideas.
Who are illustrators?
200
This is something that stands for, or represents, something else.
What is a symbol?
200
The thickness of a line is called this.
What is the line weight?
200
Objects having three dimensions: length, width, and depth.
What are forms?
200
This is the illusion of a three-dimensional surface.
What is visual texture?
300
These people use drawing when they create logos, symbols, and layouts for the corporate world.
Who are graphic designers?
300
This is the message that a work of art communicates.
What is the content?
300
This is a line that shows or creates the outer edges of a shape.
What is an outline?
300
Precise shapes that can be described using mathematical formulas.
What are geometric shapes?
300
Colors that sit side by side on the color wheel and share a common hue.
What are analogous colors?
400
These pencils have different hardnesses and a dark, chalky texture when you draw with them.
What are charcoal pencils?
400
This kind of art has no recognizable subject matter.
What is nonobjective art?
400
This kind of line is a heavy line that gives weight, structure, and strength to a drawing.
What is a stroke?
400
The empty spaces between the shapes or forms in a work of art.
What is negative space?
400
A color scheme composed of three colors spaced an equal distance apart on the color wheel.
What is a color triad?
500
These are quick sketches that you might create when planning for a project.
What are thumbnail sketches?
500
These are the rules that govern how artists organize the elements of art.
What are the principles of design?
500
This kind of line is a series of points that your eyes automatically connect.
What is an implied line?
500
A graphic system that creates the illusion of depth and volume on a two-dimensional surface.
What is perspective?
500
The combination of one color plus the colors on each side of its complement.
What is a split complement?
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