Drawing

What are the basic shapes used in drawing?

What is symmetry in art?

Why do artists practice drawing upside-down?

What is abstract art?

What is perspective in drawing?

In the drawing unit, what does practicing upside-down drawing train your brain to do?

What element of art is a continuous mark made on a surface?

Hint: It can be straight, curved, or zigzag

What element of art is a flat, enclosed area defined by a boundary?

Hint: It is two-dimensional

What element of art refers to a three-dimensional shape with height, width, and depth?

Hint: Think of a sphere versus a circle

What element of art describes the lightness or darkness of a color?

Hint: It ranges from white to black

What element of art describes how a surface feels or appears to feel?

Hint: Rough, smooth, bumpy, or silky

What element of art refers to the area around, between, or within objects?

Hint: It can be positive or negative

What element of art is produced by light reflecting off objects and has hue, value, and intensity?

Hint: It has three properties: hue, value, and intensity

What principle of design refers to the equal distribution of visual weight?

Hint: It can be symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial

What principle of design involves placing opposite elements together to create interest?

Hint: Light versus dark, large versus small

What principle of design makes one part of an artwork stand out as the focal point?

Hint: It draws the viewer's eye to the most important part

What principle of design creates a sense of movement through repetition of elements?

Hint: Like the beat in music, but visual

What principle of design gives a feeling of completeness and harmony in an artwork?

Hint: Everything works together as a whole

What principle of design deals with the size relationship of parts to each other and to the whole?

Hint: How big something is compared to another part

What principle of design uses repeated elements to create a sense of visual rhythm?

Hint: Wallpaper, tiles, and fabric prints all use this principle

What principle of design guides the viewer's eye through an artwork along a path?

Hint: Artists use lines, shapes, and colors to create a visual path for your eye to follow

What drawing technique creates the illusion of depth on a flat surface?

Hint: Railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance

What is the point on the horizon where parallel lines appear to converge?

Hint: It's where things seem to disappear

What is the horizontal line at the viewer's eye level in a perspective drawing?

Hint: It represents where the sky meets the ground

What type of perspective uses a single vanishing point?

Hint: Looking straight down a road

What type of perspective uses two vanishing points on the horizon line?

Hint: Looking at the corner of a building

What technique makes an object appear shorter because it is angled toward the viewer?

Hint: A finger pointing at you looks much shorter than it really is

What shading technique uses parallel lines drawn close together?

Hint: One set of parallel lines

What shading technique uses two or more sets of intersecting parallel lines?

Hint: Lines that cross over each other

What shading technique uses small dots to create value?

Hint: Pointillism uses this technique

What shading technique smoothly transitions between light and dark values?

Hint: Using a stump or finger to smudge

What is the brightest area on an object where light hits it directly?

Hint: The lightest spot

What is the shadow that an object casts on a nearby surface?

Hint: The shadow on the ground or wall behind the object

What are the three primary colors?

Hint: They cannot be made by mixing other colors

What are the three secondary colors?

Hint: Made by mixing two primary colors

What are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel called?

Hint: Red and green, blue and orange

What group of colors includes red, orange, and yellow?

Hint: They suggest heat and fire

What group of colors includes blue, green, and violet?

Hint: They suggest water and ice

What composition guideline divides the picture plane into a 3x3 grid?

Hint: Place key elements along the lines or at their intersections

What type of drawing focuses on the outlines and edges of a form?

Hint: Following the outline without looking at the paper is 'blind' this

What type of quick, loose drawing captures the movement and energy of a subject?

Hint: Usually done in 30 seconds to 2 minutes

What type of artwork depicts inanimate objects such as fruit, flowers, or household items?

Hint: The objects do not move

What is the empty area around and between the subjects of a drawing?

Hint: The space that is NOT the object

What are colors made by mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color called?

Hint: Red-orange, yellow-green, and blue-violet are examples

Which drawing choice best uses contour line?

In a drawing of a chair, what is the negative space?

Which choice best shows a value scale?

What is implied texture?

What helps a flat circle appear more like a sphere?

If an orange sunset needs a strong contrast, which color is its complement?

Which palette would usually feel warmest?

What does cross-hatching use to build darker values?

In one-point perspective, where do receding parallel lines meet?

A hallway drawing has ceiling and floor lines that meet at one point on the horizon. Which technique is being applied?

Hint: The clue is one meeting point on the horizon.

An artist makes a thirty-second sketch to capture the movement and pose before adding details. What kind of drawing is this?

Hint: This exercise captures motion quickly.

A poster uses blue and orange side by side so each color looks stronger. Which color relationship is the artist using?

Hint: Blue and orange sit opposite each other on the color wheel.