Perspective Vocab Quiz

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• When one object is in front of another

• Modeling

• Adding value to give it dimension

• Overlapping

• Objects appear smaller

• Recede

• To go back. To move away.

• Diminution

The point at which the observer is standing, sitting, lying, etc. and looking straight ahead.

• Ground Plane

• Picture Plane

• Picture Surface

• Vanishing Point

Lines or surfaces parallel to the observer's face show their maximum size, stay parallel

• Converging Lines

• Parallel Lines

• Foreshortening

• Picture Surface

Lines that are equal distance from each other.

• Hidden Edges

• Parallel Lines

• Converging Lines

• Horizon Line

The point at which horizontal lines come together to form a point on the horizon line.

• One point perspective

• Horizon Line

• Picture Plane

• Vanishing Point

An imaginary surface. Although you may be drawing on a paper or canvas laying flat on a table or at a slant on an easel, always imagine that the paper or canvas is set up vertically between you and the things that you are drawing or painting.

• Picture Surface/Plane

• Ground Plane

• Horizon Line

• Two Point Perspective

The horizon level in line with your eyes when you are looking straight ahead.

• Horizon/Eye Level Line

• One point perspective

• Picture Plane

• Ground Plane

The part of an object that the viewer does not see because it is in the back, out of view.

• Foreshortening

• Horizon Line

• Hidden Edges

• Converging Lines

Lines or edges of objects, which in reality are parallel, appear to come together as they recede from observer.

• Overlapping

• Vanishing Point

• Diminution

• converging lines

Horizontal lines that meet at one point - straight ahead of the viewer on the horizon line.

• Parallel Lines

• One Point Perspective

• Horizon Line

• Vanishing Point