Drawing Terms

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Across
  1. 2. the areas around positive forms that share edges with forms
  2. 4. the grade number stamped on drawing pencils indicates the hardness or softness of the graphite
  3. 5. the objective depiction of objects, forms, and figures attentively perceived
  4. 9. a set of symbols that are consistently used to form an image
  5. 10. consciousness; the act of 'taking account' of an object, person or surrounds
  6. 11. the left half of the brain
  7. 12. a mental state of information processing characterized linear, verbal, analytic, and logical
  8. 13. a series of parallel lines used to indicate shading or volume in a drawing
  9. 14. about ten percent of the population prefers using the left hand for motor activities
  10. 17. in drawing, a line that represents the shared edges of shapes and spaces
  11. 18. in art, the effect caused by a light source
  12. 20. a means of creating the illusion of projecting or receding forms on a flat surface.
  13. 21. a 'starting shape' or 'starting unit' chosen from within a composition
  14. 23. the right half of the brain. For most right-handed individuals, visual, spatial, relational functions are largely located in the right hemisphere
  15. 24. the darkness or lightness of tones or colors
  16. 26. in a drawing, sometimes called 'informal perspective'
  17. 27. the particular shape of a drawing surface
  18. 28. a device used by artists to frame and provide bounding edges to a composition
Down
  1. 1. a mental state, implying emphasis on particular capabilities of the human brain
  2. 3. an imaginary transparent plane, like a framed window, that always remains parallel to the vertical plane of the artist's face
  3. 6. a transference of the predominance of one mental state to another
  4. 7. a translation of a real-life object or experience
  5. 8. an ordered relationship among the parts or elements of an artwork
  6. 15. in portrait drawing, the horizontal proportional line that divides the head approximately in half
  7. 16. direct and apparently unmediated knowledge; a judgement, meaning, or idea that occurs to a person
  8. 19. to call up in the mind a mental copy of something not present to the senses
  9. 22. a recombination of mental images from past experiences into new expressive patterns
  10. 25. a state of mental processing characterized as visual, spatial, simultaneous, global, and relational.
  11. 29. in drawing, a place where two things meet; the line of separation between two shapes or a space