Elements & Principles Of Design

Question 1

** Line

Answer 1

A moving dot; Implied line is an edge that leads you through the artwork.

Question 2

** Value

Answer 2

The difference of color ranging from the lightest to the darkest; the degree of light to dark in a color. Value make give an object mass, texture, and dimension.

Question 3

** Shape

Answer 3

It is two dimensional and flat. The area is enclosed space. Shapes can be geometric, biomorphic, abstract, etc.

Question 4

** Form

Answer 4

It is three dimensional. They have height, width, and depth. Forms have mass. They can be geometric, biomorphic, abstract, etc.

Question 5

** Texture

Answer 5

Real Texture - Those can be feltImplied Texture - Textures that are drawn or painted to look like a real texture.

Question 6

** Space

Answer 6

Shallow Space - Very little perspective with nothing overlapping.Actual Space - Lots of overlapping shapes, differences in object size and depth, differences in colors and values.

Question 7

Space - Positive

Answer 7

What is actually put onto the surface (what is drawn on paper, what is painted on canvas, etc).

Question 8

Space - Negative

Answer 8

What is left empty; what is considered “air”

Question 9

** Color

Answer 9

The way an object reflects or emits light into the eye. The technical name for color is HUE. The color wheel is a circles used to organize colors. It was invented by Sir Isaac Newton.

Question 10

** Emphasis

Answer 10

Also known as… Center of Interest and Focal Point (they are interchangeable). This is the first thing you normally see in an artwork. It can be the largest, the smallest, the dullest, the most colorful. It is whatever the artist make intentionally “important”.

Question 11

Rule of Thirds

Answer 11

Imagine a “tic-tac-toe board” placed on your artwork… divide your artwork into thirds vertically and horizontally. The main object should not be dead center. It can be in any other box or crossing any other intersection but the entire “main idea” should not be in the center.

Question 12

** Balance

Answer 12

Symmetric Balance - Both sides are even with little to no differences.Asymmetric Balance - Achieved through unequal distribution but visually looks even. Both sides have roughly the same “weight” but there are different objects in the artwork.

Question 13

** Repetition

Answer 13

Repeating items or creating patterns to cause a visual rhythm.(Pattern - created by repeating the same element to add to the overall design.)(Rhythm - repeating similar elements throughout the artwork for smooth visual transitions.)

Question 14

** Unity

Answer 14

The harmony of all the elements using the proper variety and proportion of elements.(Variety - Differences in the elements that give interest to the artwork.)(Proportion - relative size and scale of the various elements)