Calligraphy: Handwriting/penmanship, that is especially elegant or beautiful used as a decorative art.

-Art Fundamentals

Charcoal: Charcoal is the burned remains of plant material. It comes in the form of sticks or in pencils. Charcoal is a black substance that is very soft and can be smudged and smeared in various forms. Charcoal is often used for quick drawings or as a basic outline to paintings. Charcoal and graphite repel each other and should not be used to try and blend into one drawing.

-P*JET * IMAGES

Chiaroscuro: Curo-scuro. The balance of light and shadow in a painting or drawing. The use of good chiaroscuro is that the scene has accurate or dramatic lighting, having many medium highlights integrated into strong highlights and dark shadows. Chiaroscuro adds depth to the 2-D surface, creating the illusion of a 3-D space.

-Art Fundamentals

Colored Pencils: Colored Pencils are wooden cylinders with cores filled with pigment and binders like cellulose gum. They are available in a variety of colors, starting in sets of 12, and work well when used to add pigment to a pencil drawing.

-L M Hornberger: Colored Pencil

Graphite: Silvery substance used to make pencil leds. Graphite also can be used in powder form. Graphite pencils come in many different hardnesses, the hard leds have numbers followed by the letter H and the soft pencils have a number followed by the letter B. The led that straddles the two hardnesses is an HB. It is a medium hardness.

-P*JET * IMAGES

Hatching: A technique used in drawing and engraving where fine lines are cut or drawn together to achieve different values

-Art Fundamentals

Illumination: Decoration with drawings, usually in gold, silver and bright colors, used most commonly in medieval manuscript pages.

-Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Implied Line: Implied lines are those that dim, fade, stop, and or disappear where the missing part is implied to continue and is visually completed by the observer as the line reappears.

-Art Fundamentals

Line: A series in interconnected points made by a tool, instrument, or material as it moves across an area, made visible as a value change from its surroundings.

-Art Fundamentals

Oblique Projection: Oblique Perception is a technical drawing technique where a three-dimensional object is represented two-dimensionally. The front and back sides of the object are parallel to the horizontal base, where the other planes are drawn as parallels coming off the front plane at forty-five degree angles.

-Art Fundamentals

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