DLD Vocab quiz

a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon.

Horizon Line

• Assuming the picture plane stands vertical to ground, and P is the perpendicular projection of the eye point O on the picture plane, the horizon is defined as the horizontal line through P. The point P is the vanishing point of lines perpendicular to the picture

• Verizon subsidiary

• opposite of vertical

the level of the eyes looking straight ahead.

• Eye Level

• POV

• Perspective

• Line

Contour Line

• defines a form or edge - an outline

• moving dot

• quick scribbly

seems to spring directly from the artist's emotions or feelings - loose, gestural, and energetic - epitomized by curvi-linear forms; as opposed to analytic or classical most basic visual element, moving dot

• gesture line

• expressive line

• emotion line

• ekg

the point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge.

most basic visual element, moving dot