Drawing Basics
When learning to draw you must train your ______________, ___________________, and _______________ to work together.
Contour means "__________________" in French
Outline
What is value?
The lightness and darkness of an artwork and or color
What are the primary colors?
Red, Yellow, Blue
Post impressionism
Good artists can focus on the __________________and what makes up the subject of their artwork to allow them to recreate it.
Details
What is a blind contour drawing?
Drawing an object while only looking at the object not your paper.
How many values are there on the value scale?
9
What is texture?
What was the name of the art movement that tells us "anything can be art" Many of the artists will grab something crazy and say it is art for the sake of calling it art.
Dadaism
When you first start drawing it’s easy to draw what _____________________.
Know
Its easy to look at the object _____________ and then focus on your drawing.
Once
Without value, object would be _______________ and ______________
Name at least two of the five types of line
Vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zig-zag, curved.
What is the post impressionism technique called where thousands of tiny dots are used?
Pointillism
It takes ______________and ________________ to train your eye to send details to your brain for your hand to recreate.
Time/patience, Practice
How many times should you be looking back at your paper in a 5 minuet span of drawing?
40
What are the four techniques we use to shade things?
Stippling, hatching, cross hatching, blending
What are complementary colors? (definition)
Colors that opposite each other on the color wheel.
Switzerland
Draw what you ____________ not what you________________
see, know
A contour line drawing is drawing the _______________ to define the object without adding any_____________________.
Name the four things that all objects with shadows/values have
Highlight, Midtone, core shadow, cast shadow
What is the difference between an organic and geometric shape?
Geometric shapes are common shapes with straight lines such as squares and triangles. Organic shapes are shapes with curvy lines and do not have names.
Who was the father of pointillism?
George Seurat