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• Semester Review [FILE] Posted Jan 19, 2011

  DRAWING 1 STUDY GUIDE
  Creativity means bringing new ideas to your work
  
  Craftsmanship- keeping your work clean and skill in handling the media
  
  A Good drawing involves art knowledge, thought, patience, and practice
  
  portfolio - A portable container to keep art in and samples of an artist’s work
  
  A thumbnail sketch - a small pre-sketch to work out composition for a final drawing or painting
  
  
  ELEMENTS OF ART- The elements of design are the foundation for good drawing compositions
  
  Line- separates one area of the drawing plane from the other
  
  Shape- 2D, enclosed by line
  Examples: circle, square, rectangle, triangle
  Incorrect use of this element of art will cause the drawing to "not look like what it's supposed to be."
  
  
  Form- presentation of visual shapes as 3D
  examples: sphere, cone, cylinder, cube, pyramid
  
  Value- light, medium, and dark in a work of art
  
  Space- where the appearance of distance between objects in your art. It can be shallow/flat, or deep/far.
  
  
  Color- has three attributes hue, intensity and value
  
  
  Texture- real or implied sense of how something feels
  
  TYPES OF MEDIA
  
  media - The material you use to create your artwork
  
  Kneaded eraser- A type of eraser that is easily shaped to pick out highlights or to clean smudges
  
  Drawing papers - made from natural fibers and come in many varieties
  
  Tooth- This describes the surface texture of drawing paper
  
  Tortillion- This is a soft paper wound into a pencil like form used to blend values
  
  Drawing Pencils- Graphite is the most commonly used drawing material.
  H is a hard lead and makes a light mark.
  B is a soft lead and makes a dark mark.
  
  
  
  
  
  2H - light
  4H - very light
  HB - medium
  2B - dark
  4B - very dark
  
  DRAWING TECHNIQUES
  
  value scale - shows the progression from black to white or white to black.
  
  value changes – achieved with a single pencil or a combination of tools.
  
  Gradation- gradual change in value ; a gradual change from light to dark
  
  gradation in values- How a drawing can create the illusion of form
  
  
  Rule of thirds- The division of the drawing paper into thirds horizontally and vertically to help create a focal point
  
  focal point- the area of your picture which draws the most attention
  create a focal point in your picture through a contrast in: detail, color, shape, value
  
  circle, square, and triangle- basic shapes used to block-in a drawing
  
  blind contour - do not look at the paper
  
  continuous line contour - do not lift your pencil off the paper while drawing
  
  modified contour - looking at the paper occasionally
  
  The master artist of the 16th century, Albrecht Durer. Durer created a drawing of a rhinoceros without having seen one.
  
  
  A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on) in an artificial setting.