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30 Cards in this Set
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Design Elements |
Visual components of artifacts, including point, line, texture, shape, mass and volume, space, color, value, time, motion, words, and sound. |
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Point |
A dot or small, circular shape |
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Line |
A series of connected points. Lines can be actual or implied. |
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Actual Line |
A series of points made by a tool moving across a surface. |
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Implied Line |
A series of points that the eye recognizes as a line; a perceived line where areas of contrasting color or texture meet. |
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Contour Line |
An actual line or implied line that defines the outer limits of a 3-dimensional object or 2-dimensional shape; sometimes synonymously used with "outline." |
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Gestural Line |
Line that conveys the energy of the artist's hand as it moves across the drawing surface. |
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Hatching |
A series of thin parallel lines. |
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Cross-Hatching |
Crisscrossing straight lines, one atop the other. |
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Contour |
An actual or implied outline bounding a shape. |
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Shape |
A 2-dimensional area with defined or implied boundaries that can be measured by height and width. |
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Geometric Shape |
A regular or standard shape such as a rectangle, triangle, circle, polygon, often human made. |
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Organic Shape, Biomorphic Shape |
A shape that resembles irregular shapes often found in nature. |
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Figure |
A shaped on a background. |
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Ground |
A background on which marks, shapes, or figures are placed. |
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Positive Shape |
A dominant shape on a ground. |
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Negative Shape |
A shape "left over" or around a dominant shape |
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Amorphous Shape |
A shape that lacks clear edges and is ambiguous and indistinct |
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Mass |
Actual or illusionary 3-dimensional bulk. |
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Volume |
The measurable area that an object occupies - its height, width, and depth. |
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Plane |
A form that has height and width but very little depth; also a flat or level surface. |
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Texture |
The actual or implied tactile quality of a surface. |
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Invented Texture |
The illusion of tactility through the arrangement of lines, colors, and other design elements. |
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Actual Texture |
The tactile quality of the material used to make an artifact. |
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Implied Texture |
The tactile quality of elements in an artifact rendered in a way that gives the impression of texture. |
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Value |
The relative degree of light or dark |
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Achromatic Value |
Value without color, ranging from white to black, with variations of gray in between. |
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Highlight |
The area of an image that appears lightest to the viewer. |
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Shadow |
The darker value in an image in relation to the highlight of the image |
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Contrast |
The degree of value difference in an image; high contrast is a wide separation between dark and light; low contrast is a narrow range of values in an image. |
