Line, Shape, and Form
This is defined as a mark made by a moving point.
What is a line?
The relative lightness or darkness of a color in a piece of art created by tints, tones, and shades.
What is value?
A drawing technique that breaks a reference photo into many small squares to ensure that a drawing matches the reference photo exactly.
What is grid drawing?
The subject or object of an artwork.
What is positive space?
A shading technique using small dots that come closer together to create darker values.
What is stippling?
Vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines all fall under this type of line.
What are directional lines?
These colors cannot be made using any other colors.
What are primary colors?
50 Bonus Points: Name all three primary colors.
This is something that you are able to do with a reference photo through grid drawing.
What is enlarging?
A type of perspective in which there is one central vanishing point.
What is one point perspective?
There are _____ elements of art.
What is 7?
A 2D area that is enclosed with a line.
What is a shape?
This is the technique of using value in a d-Dimensional drawing to create the illusion of being 3-dimensional.
What is shading?
Bonus points: Receive 50 bonus points for each shading technique from our lesson that your team can name.
This system of measurement uses units like inches, feet, pounds, and gallons.
What is the imperial system?
The space around and between the subject.
What is negative space?
The color family that includes blues, greens, and purples.
What are cool colors?
A shape that is fluid, unstructured, or irregular and is more often found in nature.
What is an organic shape?
This shows the range of value in an artwork, typically from lightest to darkest.
What is a value scale?
A tool that helps isolate pieces of a grid in a grid drawing.
What is a viewfinder?
These are the parallel lines throughout the drawing that converge, or meet, at the vanishing point.
What are orthogonal lines?
A property of color; The base of a color.
What is hue?
This differentiates shape from form.
What is 2-dimensionality/3-dimensionality?
Colors that are located across from each other on the color wheel. These color schemes are designed to build contrast between colors, therefore complementing each other.
What are complementary colors?
Bonus points: Receive 50 bonus points for each complementary color pair your team can name.
Receive 100 points for every fraction of an inch found on a ruler that your team can name.
Whole inches.
Half inches.
Fourth inches.
Eighth inches.
Sixteenth inches.
This is often considered your eye level in a perspective drawing.
What is the horizon line?
This is what guides the viewer’s eye through the piece. It is how you arrange your elements to lead a viewer to the subject and guide them through your piece.
What is hierarchy?