Value
The lightness of darkness of an object.
What is Value?
The pencil best used for sketches or light outlines.
What is HB?
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
What is Leonardo DaVinci?
A very soft and dark pencil used for shading.
What is a 4B pencil?
When drawing an object, you should never use a reference.
T/F
What is False?
The brightest area in a drawing.
What is a highlight?
This type of eraser is best for lightly removing layers of graphite from a drawing without making noticeable marks.
What is a kneaded eraser?
a play on words involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language).
What is a visual pun?
The tool that we used to help us create accurate value when shading our self portraits.
What is a value scale?
When beginning a project it's important to first:
a. Get all the details drawn in
b. Shade as dark as possible
c. Start with basic shapes and lines
d. Shade the lightest areas
What is start with basic shapes and lines?
The values between the lightest and darkest values.
What is a halftone/midtone?
The paper tool we use that is designed to blend pencil or charcoal.
What is a tortillion/blending stump?
A technique where shading starts by rendering the light tones and highlights first then making use of the paper color as the dark areas of the drawing.
What is reverse shading?
A common facial feature that people often draw too large because of how important we perceive it.
What is the eyes?
When drawing objects in the distance, they appear _________________.
What is smaller?
What is less detailed?
What is higher on the page?
What is blue?
When we are using reverse shading techniques, our 1 on the value scale represents the _______ value.
what is lightest?
A tool used for measuring or scaling up images.
What is a Scale Divider?
The name of the artist who created the visual puns of objects: ________ Stewart.
What is Don?
The distance between your eyes is the same as the distance of this:
What is the width of your eye?
What is the width of your nose?
A juxtaposition that accentuates difference.
What is contrast?
A type of shading with pen created by a series of dots.
What is stippling?
The pens used for adding small details. They come in sizes including 01 and 08.
What is a micron pen?
The name of the artist who created visual pun portraits with plants or food: ____________ Arcimboldo.
What is Giuseppe?
Your eye should be placed in this position on your head.
What is the center?
The arrangement of space and elements when creating art.
What is composition?