Ch. 2 The Mechanics of Visualizing


CH. 2 – The Mechanics of Visualizing
Drawing
  • -        A creation on a surface such as paper
  • -        Tools: Pencil, chalk, crayon, pastel, rubber, sharpening tool
  • -        Can take many visual form: naïve, photo-realistic, crude, complex
  • -        The sketch: most valuable, not supposed to be the complete image
  • -        Finish drawing: can take many forms but must complete the image
  • -        Observed: Drawn from life
  • -        Imagined: Drawn from the imagination

Painting
  • -        A creation that can be on: canvas, paper, walls, wood, animal skin, boards
  • -        Tools: Brushes, rollers, squeegees, hands, and other parts of the human body
  • -        Type/method: Oil, Gouache, Acrylic, Water-color

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Printmaking
  • -        A mechanical technique that can be used to reproduce an image
  • -        Types: Wood engraving, Linocut, Drypoint, Etching, Engraving, Lithography, Screen-printing, Monoprinting, Digital printing

Assemblage/collage
  • -        Is image-making or essentially take several image to make into a new image with a new meaning

Digital Art
  • -        Computers can be used to mimic certain types of art such as painting or make them easier to do such as collage

Perspective
  • -        Terms

1.      Fixed Point of view: the chosen position from which the subject is to be drawn
2.      Cone of vision: The amount the human eye can actually see with clear vision to draw without change the point of focus
3.      Picture Plane: this is an imaginary vertical plane on which the drawing is plotted
4.      Vanishing points: Parallel line which converge on a certain point
5.      The horizon line: this is where the imagined line meets in the picture plane
  • -        One-point perspective- Where all lines of angle meet at one point and all others will be horizontal or vertical
  • -        Two-point perspective- Two points in which angles can meet
  • -        Three-point perspective- Three points in which angles can meet giving the image a more dynamic look

Form, Tone, Light
               The lightness and darkness in a visual area or the shadows/grey-scale
Composition
  • -        Format- the dimension of the image
  • -        Main element: Vertical element, Horizontal element, Diagonal element, Circular element
  • -        Dominant theories in a Composition: The golden section, symmetrical composition, asymmetrical composition
  • Color
  • -        Guiding principles- Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
  • -        Key terms- Hue, Value, Chroma, Color Wheel, Complementary Colors, Color solid, Color scheme, Monochromatic, Perceptual transparency, Simultaneous contrast