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What is a Line of Action?

An imaginary line that you can draw along the character's pose/movement. A character's body posture flows along this imaginary line of action.

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What is Crosshatching?

The engraving/drawing of fine lines close together in 2/more directions to give an effect of shading/patterning.

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What is Chiaroscuro?

Literally means 'light-dark' in Italian; the effect of light lights + dark darks (shadows) in drawing and painting.

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What is a Still Life?

A Western Art genre (subject matter) depicting mostly inanimate, commonplace objects which are either natural or man-made.

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What is the Golden Ratio/Fibonacci Sequence/φ Greek letter phi?

Divine proportion/special number (equal to about 1.618) that appears many times in geometry/art/architecture creating a pleasing aesthetic (fractal)

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What is a Memento Mori?

Literally 'Remember you must die' in Latin; symbolic still life artwork of mortality w. skull/hour glass/clock/extinguished candle/fruit/flowers.

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How many heads tall is an average human figure/body?

7 - 7.5 heads tall.

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What is Stippling?

Many, many dots.

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What is the half tone technique used in comics + silkscreening?

Reprographic technique that simulates continuous-tone imagery through the use of dots, varying in size/spacing, thus generating a gradient-like effect.

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What is a Contour Drawing?

Defining the outline of a form, as well as interior structure in lines, instead of shading.

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What is Foreshortening?

The technique of depicting an object/human body in a picture so as to produce an illusion of projection/extension in space.

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What are Vanitas?

Referencing the Book of Ecclesiastes, Vanitas still life compositions are symbolic reminders of the worthlessness of worldly luxuries + fleeting pleasures.

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