BASIC ELEMENTS OF DRAWING-Vocabulary

DOT: it is the smallest and simpliest sign. Since it has no direction, it is used for showing a position. It can have different shapes, sizes, colours and textures, but it has to be SMALL.

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LINE: it´s the result of moving a dot. It has position and direction and can also have many different shapes: 

• straight: line that has the same direction in space: the edge of a paper sheet.
• curved: line that has different directions in space: the outline of a basketball.
• zigzag: they have different fragments of straight lines: this is a zigzag road.
• wavy: they have several fragments of curved lines: wavy lines depict the storm.
• spiral: curly lines getting away from a center: a snail has a spiral line on it.
• simple: they are formed by one only line: light makes a simple line.
• composite: they are formed by different lines: artists use composite lines.

They are very important in drawing, because they OUTLINE shapes (=contour).

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PLANE: it´s an (two-dimensioned) area with determinate extension.
It has WIDTH and LENGTH, but not DEPTH:

• width: the distance from side to side of something: "A door is 70 cm. wide".
• length: how far is the distance from one end to other of something: "It´s 3 km long".
• depth: how deep something is: "The sea is 10.000 meters deep at that point". 

All those three words ARE THE NAMES OF THE THREE DIMENSIONS.

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TEXTURE: it´s the sensitive quality of materials, according to its nature. We can feel texture with our five senses: 

• visual texture (sense of sight, we use our eyes): tree leaves, crocodile skin, graphic designs...
• tactile texture (sense of touch, we use our fingers or skin): velvet, sand, ice, cork...
• sound texture (sense of hearing, we use our ears): a flute, a scratch, a song, blowing wind, an explosion, a symphony...
• taste texture (sense of taste, we use our tongue): vinegar, honey, chips, chilli, salt, soda...
• olfactory texture (sense of olfact, we use our nose): flower scent, parfum, rotten eggs, candies...

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DRAWING WITH DOTS - Huichol Art.

The dot is THE SMALLEST element that we can use to draw and paint. 
There are different types of dots according to their shape, size and colour. 
If the dot is very big we consider it as a plane. For example, at night, we can look at the sky and see different types of dots: the stars- which are small dots- and the moon. In this case the moon is a plane because it’s the biggest dot in the sky.

Let´s look at some examples of use of dots in Art:
HUICHOL PEOPLE is one of most ancient mexican cultures. They adore painting with dots. Sometimes they use crystal beads to make drawings and sculptures:

And some more Huichol examples where LINES are used:

In this work we are going to paint with dots:

Choose an animal or plant first: a frog, a flower, a fish or whatever. 

Draw it with pencil, and rule some lines to divide it into different colours.

Then, start colouring it, DOT BY DOT, COLOUR BY COLOUR.

It takes some patiente to get this result...

Once finished, blacken the background, to make it even more interesting. (You might also cut i t down and stick on a dark cardboard).

BASIC ELEMENTS OF DRAWING: DOTs, LINEs and PLANEs

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