Principles of Design
The repeated arrangement of visual elements (line, shape, color..)
What is Pattern?
An Ink shading technique that uses random, unplanned strokes to produce shadows and highlights.
What is Scribbling?
A condition where the sky appears unclear due to fine particles like dust, smoke, or pollutants suspended in the air, which scatter light and reduce visibility.
What is Haze?
A process where material is poured into a mold and allowed to solidify, creating a three-dimensional object.
What is Casting?
An animation frame used to simulate motion blur.
What is a Smear Frame?
Principle that uses different elements (size, color, shape) to create visual diversity.
What is Variety?
A watercolor technique where you use a paper towel or Qtip to soak away areas of paint.
What is Blotting?
A technique in art that creates an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as less detailed, paler, and often bluer than objects closer to the viewer.
What is Atmospheric Perspective?
It is a metal framework on which a sculpture is molded with clay or similar material.
What is Armature?
They are specific points or frames within an animation sequence that define the beginning and ending states of a movement or change.
What are Key Frames?
The principle that gives the feeling of wholeness and harmony.
What is Unity?
A liquid or spray that protects and preserves artwork by preventing smudging, fading, and crumbling.
What is Fixative?
A spot in a drawing where things that are far away seem to disappear. It’s where straight lines going into the distance come together.
What is a Vanishing Point?
A type of clay that can never truly dry.
Oil based clay
The illusion of moving images.
What is Animation?
The principle that uses the distribution of visual weight of elements to create a sense of stability.
What is Balance?
A watercolor technique where you use a wet paint brush onto an already wet surface.
What is Wet on Wet?
A technique to create the illusion of depth using horizon lines and vanishing points.
What is Linear Perspective?
A type of sculpture you can completely walk around and see from every angle.
What is Freestanding/Sculpture in the Round?
A spinning cardboard disk invented by Joseph Plateau in 1832.
What is a Phenakistoscope?
The principle that uses opposite elements to create visual interest.
What is Contrast?
An Ink shading technique created by drawing closely spaced parallel lines.
What is Hatching?
It is a horizontal line depicting the viewers eye line. This line depicts where the viewer is looking from.
What is a Horizon Line?
This type of clay must be baked in a regular oven.
What is Polymer Clay?
A rotating drum lined by pictures invented by William George Horner in 1834.
What is a Zoetrope?