Hands-On Exercise : Elements Of Design

TEXT : A printed or written word that can be read.

ILLUSTRATION : A picture or something that illustrate. It is used to explain or decorate a text.

TEXTURE: The visual and especially tactile quality of a surface.

COLOUR : Specific hues and has 3 properties (Chroma, Intensity, Value).

SHAPE : 2-Dimensional line with no form or thickness : Flat.

LINE : A mark used to define a shape.

Colour Wheel

PRIMARY COLOURS - are colours that cannot be created through the mixing of other colours. The three primary colours is RED - YELLOW - BLUE.

SECONDARY COLOURS -  combine any two of the Primary Colour, then get three new mixtures called secondary colours.

Yellow + Red = ORANGE

Red + Blue = VIOLET or PURPLE

Blue + Yellow = GREEN

COLOUR WHEEL

Yellow 
Yellow Orange
Orange
Orange Red
Red
Red Purple
Purple
Purple Blue
Blue
Blue Green
Green
Green Yellow

Contour, Blind-Contour and Gesture Drawing

• Contour drawing.

• Blind-Contour Drawing : is a method of drawing, widely used by art teachers, where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper.

• Gesture drawing.
• Suggestion line
• Basic line
• Rough structure
  

What is Colour?

Colour is the elements of art that can influence our emotions, our actions and how we respond to various people, things and ideas. Much has been studied and written about color and its impact on our daily lives. Colours are powers, and that colored stones are especially powerful.

Colours can convey emotions, express personality and send messages.

History of Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language most appealing to learning and recognition. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point size, line length, line-spacing (leading), letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space within letters pairs (kerning).

Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors, typographers, graphic designers, art directors, manga artists, comic book artists, graffiti artists, clerical workers, and everyone else who arranges type for a product. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users, and David Jury, Head of Graphic Design at Colchester Institute in England, states that "typography is now something everybody does."