#art terms

[scenicphoenix]

Did anyone else’s art teachers use the term “skeleton” for the little stick figures you draw during quick sketches for pose practice and did you take “skeleton” seriously ?

Term skeleton yes/took seriously yes

Term Skeleton yes/took seriously no

Term skeleton no

Voting ended onJan 9

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artroleic

A roleic term for a system member whose role, status, or experience as a system member involves art in some way. This can involve: -being an art-related introject -having a role related to art -having formed because of art -coping with something using art However, it can involve anything. This is inclusive of all kinds of art, and the system member can specify which kind of art if they like (e.g. paintingroleic, graphicdesignroleic, etc.)

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Memento Mori and Vanitas Inspiration in VNC

Memento mori: an artwork designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the shortness and fragility of human life. Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hourglasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers. Closely related to the memento mori is the vanitas still life.

Vanitas:  an artwork which includes various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods and pleasures. 

The term originally comes from the opening lines of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible: “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”  Closely related to the memento mori, vanitas also include other symbols such as musical instruments, wine and books to remind us explicitly of the vanity (in the sense of worthlessness) of worldly pleasures and goods.

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[craftdiscoveries]

(via Terms Explained | Winsor & Newton - North America)

[mto-art]

Useful digital art terms.

Some useful vocabulary to help you study different art aspects. There’s quite a few things in here so I put most of it under a read more. Feel free to add more terms I’ve probably forgotten things.

Canvas: A canvas is the file you open in your art program. Canvasses can be sized in inches, what I see most often is canvasses which are sized in pixel width. For example: The canvasses I work with to create my art are often 4000x6000px. Meaning: The canvas is 4000 pixels wide and 6000 pixels long.

DPI: I still don’t know what this means I just know that if you want to make poster sized images and print them it’s best to set this to 300 on a canvas. If you’re only going to post your work online in low resolutions you’re fine working with lower numbers.

Hues/saturation/values:

Hues are depicted in green, these are the colors you can pick on the wheel. Saturation is the intensity of that color and is depicted in the horizontal of the square. Values are the lights and darks and are depicted in the vertical of the square.

Cell shading:

Cell shading is the sort of shadows and light you see on anime for example:

You can see that the shadows on the face of this lovely man are drawn in in what we call ‘cells’ there is no gradual or soft change in values it has a hard boundary. There are many other forms of digital art that are not cell shading, for example: Digital painting, digital inking, digital cross hatching, digital soft shading, digital I have no idea what I’m doing but it looks good. Cell shading is the process I chose to depict due to my own experience with the style. Figure out what you like and what works best for you.

Composition:

The composition of a piece is how it’s organized: Do you put your focal point in the middle of the picture? Do you put it in a corner? Do you make your picture crowded with different lines or very bare with not a lot going on? For starting artists I suggest watching some videos on composition to learn more about how to divide and organize your artworks. Look at art, photography and cinematography to see that composition works for any form of art!!

Gesture vs form.

Gesture in art (mostly figures/bodies) is often used to describe a certain flow of a movement. You could literally see it as a hand wave being a gesture you can draw. Form is what we use to describe the roundness of an object or body part.

Rendering:

Rendering is the term used to describe the fine-tuning and finalizing of an image. When you’re at the rending stage you have all the basics set up and are working up to a finished piece. In 3D art rendering can refer to a thing a program does to make the final version for you but usually you’re the one doing all the work.

Commissions/Requests/Prompts:

Commissions cost money. Requests are free. Prompts are just ideas that could inspire.

[thatswankypotato]

MLP: Naming your OC (ART)

sculpture, paint, pen, color, angular, Art Nouveau, Atelier, Avant-garde, Baroque, Batik, Belle Époque, Ben-Day dots, Brocade, Calligraphy, Canvas, Caricature, Chine collé, Cor-Ten steel Contour, Cubic, De Stijl, Der Blaue Reiter/ Blue Rider, Diptych, Die Brücke, drawing, earthwork, enamel, Ephemera, Etching, Facade, Fauves, frame, Frottage, Gelatin silver print, futurism, Geometric, Gouache,Graphic, Harlequin, horizon, hue, tint, shade, Intaglio, Juxtaposition, Kinetoscope, Kelaidoscope, Lacquer, Magic lantern, Mandala, Medium, Melodrama, Merz, monochrome, mural, motif, muse, Nastaliq, Negative, Obelisk, Oil , opaque, organic, painter, palette, panorama, Papier-collé, Papier-mâché, Pastel, pattern, photograph, photogram, photomontage, Photogravure, Photojournalism photostat, pictograph, Pictorialism, pigment, plane, plastic, plywood, plate,Pointillism, Pop art, Popular culture, portrait, Pose, positive, Primary color, prime, primer, print, profile, Rayograph, Relics, replica, render, rococo, satire, scale, scene, shape, sketch, stain, Still life,  street, strobe, surrealism, sublime, synthetic, tactile, tempera, translucent, triptych, Turpentine burn, Typeface, typography, utopia, dystopia, urban, rural, suburban, vantage point, Vignette, Virtuosity, Viscosity, watercolor, wax-print cotton, Wet-collodion, Woodcut, Ziggurat, Zoetrope, Zoopraxiscope

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Collage Painting

Kolaj #18 features the most recent installment in the magazine's ongoing series about collage taxonomy. What happens when collage artists arrange fragments into a compositional whole where the gestalt of the picture is the art? We suggest this should be called “collage painting”. The term comes to us from Carole Bleistein, who defines collage painting with great precision. MORE

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