Elements of Art
This element can be categorized as either geometric or organic.
What is Shape?
This principle organizes elements so the viewer's eye is drawn to one main focal area.
What is Emphasis?
You create a "tint" of a hue by mixing pure color with this.
What is White?
This Italian term describes strong contrasts between light and dark to create 3D volume & depth.
What is Chiaroscuro?
When drawing water droplets or glass, these areas should always be left completely white paper.
What are the Highlights?
In 2D art, this element refers to light and dark tones.
What is Value?
This principle ensures that an artwork feels finished, complete, and whole.
What is Unity?
A color scheme that uses only shades, tints, and tones of a single color is known as this.
What is Monochromatic?
On a shaded sphere, this specific zone represents the darkest area of shadow on the form itself.
What is the Core Shadow?
To make a water droplet look realistic, the cast shadow should be placed in this position relative to the light source.
What is opposite the light source?
The principle of unity is strongest when this specific element—which includes hues, tints, shades, and tones—is used consistently across an artwork.
What is Color?
This principle is achieved when color or shape is repeated in a planned way.
What is Pattern?
Combining Blue and Orange creates this basic color scheme.
What is Complementary?
Light that bounces back onto the shaded side of an object from surrounding surfaces is called this.
What is Reflected Light?
On a glass bottle, the darkest values are usually concentrated along these regions rather than the center.
What are the outer edges and thicker glass areas?
This element is most effective for creating a sense of depth in 2D art.
What is Space?
This principle depends directly on stark differences between elements, such as light vs. dark, rough vs. smooth, or big vs. small.
What is Contrast?
Combining Red, Green, and Yellow-Orange is an example of this advanced scheme.
What is Split-Complementary?
This value shading technique uses varying densities of small dots to build up tones.
What is Stippling?
To anchor a transparent object to a surface so it doesn't float, an artist must draw this beneath the object.
What is a cast shadow?
This element works most directly with the principle of rhythm.
What is Line?
Repeating elements with variation to suggest movement across a composition creates this principle.
What is Rhythm?
An advanced color scheme made up of four total colors arranged into two complementary pairs is called this.
What is Tetradic?
When shading forms using hatching or cross-hatching, values are built using these types of mark-making lines.
What are parallel or intersecting lines?
When drawing realistic glass bottles, heavy outlines are avoided; instead, the form is defined by highlights, reflections, and this third element.
What are transparent values?