Drawing Styles and Influences

What do artists mean by STYLE?

• The specific artistic character and dominant form trends noted in art movements. It may also mean artist’s expressive use of media to give an individual character to his work.

• The size the drawing or art work is.

• The name of the person who made it.

What do artists mean by TECHNIQUE?

• The manner and skill in which the artist uses tools and materials to achieve an expressive effect.

• The ability hold a pencil/pen.

• The ability hold a pencil/pen.

Can you name AT LEAST 5 characters that are from different shows, movies, cartoons, and books that are all drawn differently

What vocabulary word are we expressing when we say "The essential meaning, significance, or aesthetic value of an art form. It refers to the sensory, psychological or emotional properties that one tends to “feel” in a work of art as opposed to the perception of mere descriptive aspects."

• Realism

• Picture Plane

• Content

What makes you want to draw?

Do you draw like anyone else or do you draw in your own way?

What are influences?

• How we grow up

• Things that affect people on what they think, how they do things, or how they see the world

• What we like to read or watch

• Where we live

__________ is a defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made.

• Artistic Skills

• Technique

• Medium

• Natures of Art

The lines that describe the outer edges of objects and figures are called _____.

• vertical lines

• outlines

• contour lines

• horizon lines

Should WE review STYLE?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe