Line
Is the most basic building block of formal analysis. Line can be used to create more complex shapes or to lead your eye from one area in the composition to another.
Value
Is the degree of light and dark in a design. It is the contrast between black and white and all the tones in between. Value can be used with color as well as black and white. Contrast is the extreme changes between values.
Shape
Is created when lines are combined to form a square, triangle, or circle. Shapes can be organic (irregular shapes found in nature) or geometric (shapes with strong lines and angles such as circles, triangles, and squares).
Form
Is a three-dimensional shape with length, width, and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes and pyramids are forms.
Space
Is the area between and around objects. Increasing or decreasing the amount of space around an object affects the way
we view that object.
we view that object.
Color
Differentiates and defines lines, shapes, forms, and space. Even black and white images have a huge number of different
shades of gray. |
Texture
Is the surface quality that can be seen and felt. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. Textures are often implied. For instance, a drawing of a rock might appear to have a rough and hard surface, but in reality is as smooth as the paper on which it is drawn.
Balance
The overall balance between all the aspects of the art elements used in the design, and how you put them all together.
Contrast
The depth of all the different shades of color that you used.
Movement
The way your drawing flows from one side to the other creating movement of living things.
Emphasis
Any design made with a specific emphasis on a certain art element in your design.
Pattern
A pattern is a repeating design crating something new, like our swirling squares project with straight lines.
Rhythm
A design with a long and repeating drawing, like this unique design that i have shown you right here as my picture.
Proportions and scale
The exact proportions and size of everything in your design in mathmatic proportions.
Unity on Harmony
This is how well your design connects to the man or of your design.