Famous Art Pieces & Artists
Animation
Art Techniques
Materials for Art
Misc. Art Trivia
100
This American artist was famous for using popular culture in his artworks, including celebrities and advertising.
Who is Andy Warhol?
100
This man is known as the man behind many famous Studio Ghibli films like My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, & Spirited Away, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
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100
The technique in which there is a focus on depicting an object or human body in a picture so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space and with perspective.
What is foreshortening?
100
These tools are typically made of metal and come in various shapes and sizes. Artists can use them to mix, apply, and manipulate paint on their palette or directly on the painting's surface.
What is a palette knife?
100
This type of flower is featured quite heavily in a lot of Vincent van Gogh's work.
What is a sunflower?
200
This artist sold Balloon Dog (Orange) (a mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture) for $58.4 million in 2013, breaking the world record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork by a living artist.
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Who is Jeff Koons?
200
This is the studio behind such stop motion animated films as Coraline, Paranorman, The Box Trolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings.
Who is Laika Studios?
200
A drawing exercise in which the artist fixes their eyes on the outline of the model or object, while simultaneously drawing the contour very slowly, in a steady, continuous line without lifting the pencil or looking at the paper.
What is blind contour?
200
The most common degrees of this drawing material's hardness are: 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, HB, F, H, 2H, 3H, and 4H. These affect this material's darkness and texture.
What are (graphite) pencils?
200
This painting, by Monet, features a pond from his own personal garden.
What is Water Lillies?
300
This artist was part of a movement called Abstract Expressionism, in which he threw, dripped, poured, and splattered paint on a large canvas.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
300
Before it was rebranded to be known as Adobe Animate, this program was popular in the 2000s-2010s a tool to create animations, interactive games, and various other multimedia and were easily shared and uploaded online.
What was Adobe Flash?
300
This specific character design layout is frequently used in animation and projects where one can benefit from 360-degree view of a character that gives us all the information we need to know about their design.
What is a turnaround/model sheet?
300
This popular brand of colored pencils have higher pigment content combined with a core made of wax, clay and other ingredients, and makes this brand softer than normal colored pencils. The wax as allows the pencils to blend together.
What are Prismacolor colored pencils?
300
This was a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
What is the Surrealism Movement?
400
Picasso's early work can be categorized into four periods: The Blue Period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1905-1907), the African-influenced Period (1908-1909) and this period, often seen as one of his most defining period, with blocky shapes and forms. 
What is Cubism/Cubist Period?
400
This is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.
What is Rotoscoping?
400
This is a drawing technique in which areas of light and shadow are created using nothing but dots. For darker areas, you apply a greater number of dots and keep them close together, and for progressively lighter areas, use fewer dots and space them farther apart.
What is stippling?
400
When prepping a canvas, it's common to put a base coat of this kind of white paint mixture, used to coat rigid surfaces such as wooden painting panels or masonite as a permanent absorbent primer substrate for painting.
What is gesso?
400
___ modes are available in most digital art and editing programs like Photoshop/Procreate/CSP, are used to determine how layers with each other. Some of the most common include Overlay, Multiply, Screen, Add, Soft Light, Hard Light, Difference.
What are blend modes/blending modes?
500
This print, created by Hokusai, is one of the most famous Japanese prints ever made, and is even featured as an emoji today.
What is The Great Wave?
500
Satoshi Kon is best known for his acclaimed films such as Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), and Paprika (2006), along with this 1998 animated psychological horror thriller film about a young Japanese singer encouraged to pursue a film career, leading her down a dangerous path.
What is Perfect Blue?
500
Italian for "mixture", this is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible creating texture. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dried, it looks as if the paint is coming out and off the canvas.
What is Impasto?
500
A very hard type of crayon made from graphite and coloured clay. It usually comes in black, brown or warm red and is similar to chalk but with a slightly greasy texture. It also does not smudge or break as easily though the composition of the material makes it harder to rub out.
What is conté?
500
This character was Walt Disney's first breakout character that he created himself, and was immensely popular.
Who was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
