Drawing Vocab

Not representing or imitating external reality

• Abstract

• Realism

• Photo realism

• Representational

The part of a scene behind objects in the front

• Foreground

• Mid ground

• Background

• Playground

The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts

• Space

• Light

• Background

• Composition

The spatial arrangement of something

• Function

• Space

• Form

• Texture

Of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those

known in physical nature.

• Representational

• Non-representational

• Abstract

• Realism

A drawing exercise, where an artist draws the contour of a subject

without looking at the paper.

• Contour line drawing

• Continuous line drawing

• Non- representational drawing

• Blind Contour line drawing

A version of outline drawing, in which the artist, looking closely at the contour

of an object.

• Contour drawing

• abstract drawing

• Line drawing

• Tracing

A picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint.

• Painting

• Drawing

• Print

• Collage

The path of a moving dot.

• Line

• Shape

• Texture

• Form

Lines that define boundaries which separate one area from another. They define

edges and surface ridges of objects and shapes.

• Abstract

• Contour

• Object

• Item