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Sketchbooks & Drawing
The Language of Art
Line
Shape, Form, & Space
Color, Value, & Texture
100
This can be used to try out ideas and experiment with different materials and drawing techniques.
What is a sketchbook?
100
Something that stands for, or represents, something else.
What is a symbol?
100
An element of art that is the path of a moving point through space.
What is line?
100
The empty spaces between and around shapes and forms in a work of art.
What is negative space?
100
The brightness or dullness of a color.
What is intensity?
200
These people, who draw the pictures in books, use drawing as a vehicle for visual and creative thinking, and to communicate their ideas.
Who are illustrators?
200
The message a work of art communicates.
What is content?
200
The thickness of a line.
What is line weight?
200
Irregular or uneven shapes, also known as organic shapes.
What are free-form shapes?
200
The illusion of a three-dimensional surface on a two-dimensional work of art.
What is visual texture?
300
These people use drawing when they create logos, symbols, and layouts for the corporate world.
Who are graphic designers?
300
Art that has no recognizable subject matter.
What is nonobjective art?
300
A line that shows or creates the outer edges of a shape.
What is an outline?
300
Precise shapes that can be described using mathematical formulas.
What are geometric shapes?
300
Colors that sit side by side on the color wheel and share a common color.
What are analogous colors?
400
These pencils have different hardnesses and a dark, chalky texture when you draw with them.
What are charcoal pencils?
400
The way the principles of design are used to organize the elements of art.
What is composition?
400
This defines the edges and surface ridges of a shape.
What is a contour line?
400
Objects having three dimensions: length, width, and depth.
What are forms?
400
A color scheme composed of three colors spaced an equal distance apart on the color wheel.
What is a color triad?
500
These are quick sketches that you might create when planning for a project.
What are thumbnail sketches?
500
The rules that govern how artists organize the elements of art.
What are the principles of design?
500
A heavy line that gives weight, structure, and strength to a drawing.
What is a stroke?
500
A graphic system that creates the illusion of depth and volume on a two-dimensional surface.
What is perspective?
500
The combination of one color plus the colors on each side of its complement.
What is a split complement?