Basic Elements of design

BASIC ELEMENTS OF DESIGN.

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN.

Color.
Line.
Shape.
Texture.
Space.

Value.

COLOR.

Color is seen either by the way light reflects off a surface, or in colored light
sources. Color and particularly contrasting color is also used to draw the
attention to a particular part of the image. There are primary colors, secondary
colors, and intermediate colors.

• Primary colors: Red, Yellow, and
Blue.

• Secondary colors: Orange, green,
violet, made by mixing equal
amounts of 2 primary colors.

• Intermediate colors: Achieved by
mixing varying amounts of one
primary color with the adjacent
primary.

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LINE.

Line is a path point through space and that is always has more length than thickness.
Vertical Lines: are straight up and down and perpendicular to horizontal
lines.
Horizontal lines: are straight up and down and perpendicular to vertical
lines.
Diagonal lines: are lines that straight in any direction except vertical or
horizontal.

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SHAPE.

A shape is an enclosed object. Shapes can be created by line, or by color and value changes
which define their edges.
There are two general categories that use to describe shapes. Geometric and Free-Form.

Geometric shape. Free-Form shape.

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TEXTURE.

Texture refers to the surface quality in a work of art. Everything has some type of texture.
There are two types of texture: Real Texture and Visual or Implied Texture.

Real Texture: is the real thing. Real texture cannot be represented by a computer screen.

Visual or Implied texture: is the texture that can be simulated or invented.

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design-texture/

SPACE.

Space refers to the area within, around, above or below an object or objects. Space can be
defined as positive or negative.
Positive space is the filled space in the design.
Negative space is the empty space in the design.

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VALUE.

The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value; black is the darkest.
The value halfway between these extreme is called middle gray.
Value is very important to drawing and painting because value changes are what create
contrast.
Values scales are charts that demonstrates the changing values of a tone.

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design-value/

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