Drawing 101
Elements of Design
Artist Tools
Career Corner
Art Styles
100

This is the line where the land appears to meet the sky.

Horizon Line

100

This element refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.

Value

100

This is the colorful, thick paper often used for school projects, folding, and cutting out shapes.

Construction Paper

100

This person designs the look of buildings and houses.

Architect

100

This style is made of "scary" or "dream-like" images that don't happen in real life.

Surrealism

200

This is a drawing of yourself, usually made by looking in a mirror.

Self-Portrait

200

This is the path of a moving point through space.

Line

200

This natural, earthy material is soft and wet when you model it, but it becomes hard and permanent after being heated in a kiln.

Clay

200

This artist creates the moving images for movies, video games, and TV shows.

Animator

200

This style uses everyday items like soda cans or comic books as the main subject

Pop Art

300

This is the area of a drawing that is the brightest because it is hitting the light source directly.

Highlight

300

This is the "feel" of a surface, whether it is actual or just drawn to look a certain way.

Texture

300

This type of paint comes in dry cakes or tubes and must be mixed with water to create soft, see-through layers of color.

Watercolor

300

This professional uses digital tools to design logos, posters, and websites.

Graphic Designer

300

This is art that doesn't look like anything specific; it's just about colors, lines, and feelings

Abstract Art

400

This term refers to the "outline" of an object without any shading.

Contour Line

400

This is the difference between elements in an artwork, like light vs. dark or rough vs. smooth.

Contrast

400

Made from burnt wood sticks, this drawing tool is famous for creating very deep blacks and smoky, blended shadows.

Charcoal

400

This type of artist designs the clothes, shoes, and accessories we wear.

Fashion Designer

400

This style uses thousands of tiny dots to create a whole picture.

Pointillism

500

This is the "empty" space around and between the subjects of an image.

Negative Space

500

When an artwork is the same on both sides, it is _____.

Symmetrical

500

This is a heavy, woven fabric stretched over a wooden frame that professional artists use as a surface for oil or acrylic paintings.

Canvas 

500

This person is responsible for choosing and organizing the artworks in a museum exhibit

Curator

500

This "old-school" style used blocky, geometric shapes to show faces and objects.

Cubism