Shading Techniques
Elements of Art
All about Line
The meaning of Value
100

Uses crossing lines to create value.

What is Cross Hatching? 

100

You see this when light reflects off a surface. 

What is color?

100

Used to describe something visually.

What is a line?

100

Lightness and Darkness 

What is value?

200

Uses Lines going in the same direction to create value. 

What is hatching?

200

This is the area around, between, or within objects in an artwork. 

What is space?

200

The lines that describe the outside of a drawing.  

What is an Outline?

200
A measure from lightness to darkness.  

What is a Value Scale?

300

Uses dots to create value.

What is stippling? 

300

How something feels or looks like it would feel if touched.

What is texture?

300

The lines that describe both the outside and inside of a drawing.

What are contour lines?

300

The area where light hits and object in a drawing. 

What is a highlight? 

400

Uses random lines to create value. 

What are scribbles?

400

A flat, enclosed area created by lines or color.

What is a shape?

400

Drawing without looking at your paper. 

What is blind contour drawing?

400
The area created from light shinning on an object in a drawing. 

What is a cast shadow?

500

Uses a smudging tool to create a uniform value. 

What is Blending?

500

 A three-dimensional object or the illusion of three dimensions.

What is form?

500

Used in line drawings to create the illusion of 3D from a head on view. 

What is foreshortening?

500

A value scale model that has 9 different values. 

What is the Denman Ross value scale?