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VISUAL ELEMENTS OF AN IMAGE

and what happens if you want to create an image

It doesn´t matter what it is

a painting

A logo

an illustration

a photograph a drawing A poster

you will need

the basic elements

the dot

the line

a plane form

the volumetric shape

the texture

the colour the colour the colour the colour the colour the colour the colour

and then

you will have to place them according to some laws

that organize the images

the laws of

composition

????? How about we look for those elements in a couple of images?

plane shape

volumetric shape

line

texture

dot

colour

plane shape

volumetric shape

line texture

dot

colour

Definition:

- It is the smallest and the simplest element of art expression. - It´s first finality is to indicate a position.

- It can be represented by different shapes depending on it´s function.

- If the dot is bigger than other shapes around, it´s considered a plane.

- The dot is not always round.

Expressive Capacity

Dots are very close to each other

Expressive Capacity

Dots are very far from each other

Placing dots together or further apart we get volume effects and shadows in the different shapes.

Tridimensional capacity of the dot: We can create a sensation of tridimensional space and volume through:

Superposition

Shadows

Smaller sizes

Colour difference

Texture Colour Intensity

He invented the pointillism technique, that means to create solid shapes applying a big amount of small, pure coloured dots over a white background.

French artist from the end of the XIXth century. One of the most representative artists of the Neoimpresionism

THE LINE: DEFINITION: Geometric: The line is formed by the intersection of two planes.

Artistic: The brand that makes a point to slip on a surface.

It´s represented in a thin, thick, continuous, discontinuous way. It adopts a variety of shapes, colours and textures.

EXPRESSIVE CAPACITY: It depends on the route of its layout, color, thickness, the sharpness of its edges and uniformity. A uniform and objective line is used when you´re looking for clear information

A modulated and subjective line has infinite expressive possibilities

Characteristics of the line • A single line may contain different visual information about applying pressure on the tool that performs it, so we`ll get lines with different intensity and thickness (value line).

Characteristics of the line • Intensity: It depends on the pressure that we apply on the surface with the drawing tool (pencil graphite, charcoal, chalk, etc.).

Characteristics of the line • Thickness: When you use more pressure, the line will be stronger, thicker and more intense.

Classes of lines: Straight

• They give a sense of direction and length.

Classes of lines: Curved • They express the sense of movement, grace, softness, and voluptuosity.

Classes of lines: Broken

• They express the sense of rupture, and eternity.

Classes of lines: Mixed

• They are formed with fragments of straight and curved lines.

Classes of lines: Perpendicular • They express the sense of balance, strength, and stability.

Classes of lines: Wavy • They express the sense of movement, rhythm and waves.

Classes of lines: Convergent

• They express the sense of distance and escape.

Classes of lines: Radial • They expresses the feeling of explosion and violence.

LINE AND IT´S RESOURCES 1. Volumetric effects: making groups, combining weave… (through concentration and dispersion)

Using oblique lines to create a sensation of depth.

2. Dynamic effects :

Kinetic lines

Juxtaposing and intertwining

With curved and wavy lines

3. Fitting is the basic geometric figure drawing closer to its shape.

COMPOSITIVE CAPACITY:

HORIZONTAL LINES

When we draw a line on a surface , a visual movement emerges. VERTICAL LINES

Balance and elevation sensation

OBLIQUE AND CURVED

Instability and dynamism sensation

Quiet, calm and rest sensation.

Ascending lines give strength and vitality sensation.

A spiral radiation gives a rolling motion effect.

A radiation of a dot produces an unit and expansion sensation

Descending lines create visual effects of depression and decadence

Produces and creates textures

Produces and creates

tonal gradations

THE PLANE: DEFINITION: graphical representation of a two dimensional surface.

When a line is closed, it begins to suggest the idea of a plane.

Geometric: They are those that have a geometric shape. (pentagons, triangles)

Artistic: They use different color, size, shape, texture and thickness.

A plane can be graphically described by several resources: Delimited by contour lines

Colour Contrast

Different textures

EXPRESSIVE CAPACITY

AS SUPPORT: The shape of the support conditions our work, because it produces different visual messages.

AS A GRAPHIC ELEMENT: giving color and texture, size, transparencies, overlaps, we will create optical illusions or tactile sensations: We can create plane, volumetric, geometric, organic, irregular, mixed, accidental compositions.

COMPOSITIVE CAPACITY

Basic element to divide and compose the space If they are ordered in a vertical and horizontal direction, they will produce a feeling of order and quiet.

Basic element to divide and compose the space If they appear in diagonal directions, the visual effect is of movement.

The curved, overlapped, irregular and shading planes suggest an effect of depth and dynamism.

THE PLANE AND THE SENSATION OF TRIDIMENSIONAL SPACE

It can suggest visual sensations of distance, closeness and volume.

Size difference : Size difference

The closer, the bigger and The farther, the smaller

It can suggest visual sensations of distance, closeness and volume.

Colour difference: Colour difference

Warm colors tend to come closer and cold colors seem more distant in space.

It can suggest visual sensations of distance, closeness and volume.

Texture difference: The smooth and homogeneous textures give sense of distance and the rougher give sense of closeness.

It can suggest visual sensations of distance, closeness and volume.

Superposition: When a shape overlaps partially to another, it seems to be forward.

Superposition

It can suggest visual sensations of distance, closeness and volume.

Curvature or fold: The ondulated contours or folds with edges give a sense of volume.

Curvatura o doblez

It can suggest visual sensations of distance, closeness and volume.

Shading: The shading of surfaces creates a feeling of volume.

Shading