final Flashcards

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A mark with greater length than width.

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Line

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Created when lines intersect or become joined.

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Shape

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Shapes that can easily be measured because they have consistent lines.

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Geometric shapes

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Shapes that are found in nature or to be things that resemble nature.

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Organic shapes

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Any edge or line you can see on, in, or around a thing or shape.

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Contour

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The main object.

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Positive shapes

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Around the main object.

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Negative shapes

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Refers to the lines that give you information about the structure of what you are drawing.

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Structural line drawing

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Three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth.

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Form

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What you are able to see of a circle based on your vantage-point.

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Ellipse

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A type of art whose subject is a group of natural objects.

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Still Life

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The ratio between the size of an object and its model or representation.

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Scale

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the scale of the objects within your drawing in relationship to each other.

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Proportion

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The lightness or darkness of something.

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Value

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The representation of light and shadows on objects in a realistic manner.

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Light Logic

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The lightest value which is in the direct light and should be the only part of your paper left completely white.

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the light grays that are the transition between the light and the core shadow. These are also called halftones.

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the darkest shadow on the object

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Core Shadow

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the light found in the shadow reflected from a surface or another source

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Reflected light

20
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the shadow cast by the object

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Cast Shadow

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Formed by the variation within a pattern.

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Means that both sides of something look the same or that they mirror each other.

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The surface quality [of an object] that can be seen and felt.

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Visual Texture

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The name of a color from the color wheel.

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Red, yellow and blue. These are the hues that cannot be mixed.
Primary Color
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This is a group of three colors – orange, violet and green - that are mixed from the three primary colors.
Secondary Color
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This is a group of six colors that occurs when a primary and a secondary color are mixed.
Tertiary Color
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Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.; red/green, blue/orange, yellow/violet
Complementary Color
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Red, yellow, orange, red-orange, yellow, orange. (pink, maroon, peach, etc.)
Warm Colors
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Blue, green, violet, blue-violet, blue-green. (teal, navy blue, lavender, etc.)
Cool Colors
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A way of representing distance and things going back in space in a visually accurate way.
Perspective
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The line where the sky meets the land; eye level.
Horizon line
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Lines that are parallel in reality seem to come together as they are farther away from the viewer.
Convergence
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The viewing place; bird’s eye view or looking from above as opposed to viewing from below or directly head on. From what location or height do you see the scene?
Vantage Point
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The point at which lines leading into the distance appear to meet and disappear. The point of convergence. This is different from a vantage point.
Vanishing Point
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the part of a scene that appears closest; what is in front of the middleground and background.
Foreground
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the part of a scene that appears most distant; what is behind the foreground and middle ground.
Background
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the middle distance; what is between the foreground and background
Middle ground