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Resources: Final Project: Real NYC Location

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To make an accurate and well-designed drawing of an actual real and complex space entails bringing together many skills. As the artist has only one set of eyes, there must be only one horizon line. The placement of this … Read More

Course Resources

Faculty: Please edit this page to organize any additional course resources that you’d like to share with your students. Please delete this informational block when you are ready to share your site with your students. For help working with … Read More

Resources: Cast Shadows

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Basic Shadow Components:

Depicting light and shadow helps create 3-dimensional space, as well as emotion, clarity of artistic intent and 2-dimensional design. To use light and shadow effectively it is important to understand that light travels in a straight … Read More

Resources: Form Shadows: Seven-Value System

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Depicting light and shadow helps create volume and 3-dimensional space, as well as emotion, clarity of artistic intent and 2-dimensional design. To use light and shadow effectively it is important to understand that light travels in a straight line … Read More

Resources: Ground Plane and Grid

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The ground plane “breaks the picture surface” by going back into space. In Adobe programs it is defined by the x and z axes. As the ground plane defines the surface on which objects rest, depicting the ground plane, … Read More

Resources: Positive/Negative Shapes

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Positive/negative shapes, sometimes called figure/ground, refers to the relationship between the focus of the image (i.e. the positive shape or figure) and the spaces in between. Both types of shapes are equally important in art, as the negative shapes … Read More

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