Art Techniques
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100
Creating a soft transition between light values and dark values, so it is nice and smooth.
What is a Value Scale or Gradient?
100
The 3 different types of viewpoints.
What is Bird's Eye View, Street View, and Worm's Eye View?
100
An idea that guides your work of art.
What is the Theme?
100
A scene with the strangeness or mysteriousness of a dream.
What is a dreamscape?
100
High or low contrast?
What is Low Contrast?
200
Drawing without looking at your paper, slowly! Let your eyes trace the object, and your hand should move in sync with your eyes.
What is Blind Contour Drawing?
200
The lightness or darkness of a shade or color.
What is Value?
200
The part of an image that is the furthest away from you, so it appears smaller than everything else.
What is the Background?
200
Art that does not attempt to represent reality, but uses shapes, forms, colors, and textures.
What is Abstract Art?
200
The value of this color.
What is a dark value.
300
The section where the nose and eyes are located while using the Rule of 3rd's Drawing Technique.
What is Section 2?
300
Having a high difference in your artwork between the light and the dark values.
What is contrast?
300
The part of an image that is closest to the viewer, so it looks larger than everything else.
What is the Foreground?
300
The combination of different forms and materials to create something new, often cutting things out and gluing them together.
What is Collage?
300
The Primary Colors.
What is Red, Yellow, and Blue?
400
Drawing using 2 viewpoints, often used when staring at the side of a building.
What is 2 point perspective?
400
The outline of your drawing, that should be soft and light for realistic drawing, or dark and bold for cartoon drawing.
What is Contour Line?
400
A rolled up piece of paper used to smudge and create shading.
What is a Blending Stump?
400
Making it appear as if some things are in front or behind of other things.
What is Overlapping?
400
The animation type for the image below.
What is Stop-Motion Animation?
500
The process of hand drawing images, and linking them together to create a moving image.
What is 2-D Animation?
500
The specific way our brains simplify things into shapes to create identifiable images.
What is Schema?
500
The empty spaces and full spaces in your artwork.
What is Negative Space and Positive Space.
500
Colors that are opposite from one another.
What is Complimentary Colors?
500
What type of art is this?
What is Abstract Expressionism?