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November 30th, 2022083 The wordless novel is a unique type of narrative that uses sequences of caption-less pictures (no words) to tell a story. Artists have often made such books using woodcut and other relief printing techniques, the terms ‘woodcut novel’ or novel in woodcuts are also used. The wordless novel has its origin in the German...
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October 28th, 20220138 The storyboard is a key tool of visual communication and is used in many contexts to ‘pre-visualise’ projects, such as animation, motion graphics, film, interactive media, websites (such as sitemaps and navigation links), advertising agencies to plan campaigns, product design, theatrical productions and business (group...
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September 19th, 20220134   When we refer to ‘tonal values’ in drawing, it is the same as the common term of ‘shading’. Shading is the part that makes a drawing go from a flat contour drawing, and gives it depth, so it appears as a 3-dimensional illusion.  Look at objects in your home, like lamps, bottles, containers, etc – everything is...
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August 30th, 20220166 In 1968, I was a student at Chicago’s American Academy of Art, when I discovered the art medium of scratchboard. One day, our teacher in the design class told us to go to the school store and buy a piece of scratchboard, plus a blade to scratch with. I was given a black, inked board, and following a brief demonstration, I started...
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July 25th, 20220216 When we were in primary school, making art was an important part of the day in the classroom. Some of the main drawing exercises usually were created with our box of crayons - drawing scenes from our imagination on rough construction paper. Afterwards, the teacher might display the drawings on the classroom board, and we’d get a chance...
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June 21st, 20220316 Doodling: As a Creative Outlet and a “Stress Buster” Most of us have sat in some boring meeting, or maybe talked on a long telephone call, and we’ve picked up a pen or pencil and a piece of paper, and we aimlessly ‘doodled’ to pass the time. Doodles are simple drawings that can have actual representational meaning or...
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June 7th, 20220274 The Drawing: A Journey of Visual Exploration and Enjoyment What is Drawing about? Drawing: A graphic process that depicts or represents figures and forms on a surface by using either pencil, pen or marker to produce points, lines, tones textures, etc., that illustrates an image. Drawing can express and represent ideas in numerous...
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