Elements of

Art
ARE WHAT THE ARTIST TO BE USE
TO CREATE IN ART
• To come up with any art form, some elements
have to be taken into account in order to satisfy
the purpose of the design and the users.
• Any design regardless of quality, will involve
lines, forms, texture, value and color.
• These are classified as Elements of Arts.
 Elements of Art
1. LINES
2. SHAPES
3. FORM
4. SPACE
5. TEXTURE
6. VALUE
7. COLOR
1. LINE
• The study of the contour and the profile of
the object.
• Is a basic elements of art, a continues mark on
a surface.
 Kinds of Lines
• SOLID • BROKEN
 Position of Lines
1. HORIZONTAL
• a line that lies flat along the horizon.
• It is any line that lies parallel with ground
plane.
2.VERTICAL
line that stands upright forming a
right angle with the horizon.
3.INCLINED
 This is a line whose position is neither horizontal nor
vertical.
 It is sometimes called Oblique, Slanting, or Diagonal.
 Forms of Lines
• Straight
• Curve
• Zigzag
 STRAIGHT
This is the shortest path across the
distance between two opposite points.
It may either be horizontal, vertical, or
inclined.
 CURVE
• is a line that often changes its direction
along the way
 

ZIGZAG
• line that changes its direction
alternately as it moves space.
Relations of Lines
• Parallel
• Perpendicular
• Intersecting
 PARALLEL LINES
• two or more lines that are run along uniform
direction.
• lines will never meet at each other no matter how
long the lines are extended,
 PERPENDICULAR LINES
• are two or more lines that crossing or
meeting each other forming a right angle at
its corner.
 INTERSECTING LINES
• two or more lines crossing each other
forming any angle at its corner.
 2. SHAPE
• Is two dimensional ( circle, square, triangle,
Rectangle) and encloses space –geometric.
3. FORMS
In general, this varies in shape and in
size, and comes in surface and solid.
SURFACE
 SURFACE
 This form is developed when a line is allowed to
move freely in space, in either straight or curve
direction and is allowed to close, forming a two-
dimensional figure – the length and the width.
 It has no thickness for itself.
SOLID
 SOLID
• This is the result when a moving line is
allowed to close to form a surface, and the
surface is made to close to come up with a
three-dimensional object.

• It has a measurement s the length, width,

and the height or thickness.
 4. SPACE
Is defined and determined by shapes and forms.
Positive space is where shapes and forms exist.
Negative space is the empty space around shapes and forms.
 5.TEXTURE
Refers to the surface quality or “feel”
of an object.
 Common Kind of Texture
• Based on the amount of light reflected or
absorbed by the surface, the following textures
are often observed:
1. Rough
2. Coarse
3. Smooth
4. Fine
5. Bright
6. Dull
ROUGH PAINTING
Coarse PAINTING
SMOOTH PAINTING
FINE PAINTING
BRIGHT
DULL PAINTING
 6.VALUE
The lightness or darkness of a color
or gray scale.
This is the amount of shade or light
present on the surface of the object.
lightness
darkness
 Values or Shades
1. White
2. High light
3. Light
4. Low Light
5. Medium
6. High Dark
7. Dark
8. Low Dark
9. Black
 Shading
 is a process used in drawing for depicting levels of darkness on
paper by applying media more densely or with a darker shade for
darker areas, and less densely or with a lighter shade for lighter
areas.
Graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing
or painting.
 Shading Techniques
1. Smudging
2. Stippling
3. Lining
4. Colouring
 1. Smudging
• A shading technique which is done by rubbing the lead of your
pencil to the paper which will then produce particles.
• You will scatter those particles using your fingers or cotton.
 2. Stippling
Shading technique which is done by using dots.
 3. Lining
This is done by distributing fine lines.
(blended shading example)
(circulism shading example)
(blended circulism shading example
4.colouring
(colored pencil shading example)
(pastel shading example)
 7. COLOR
 Is produced when lights strikes an object and reflects back
in your eyes.
 This element of arts has 3 properties

 HUE – the name of the color

(red, yellow, green)
 INTENSITY – the purity and strength of color
(bright red or dull red)
 VALUE – the lightness or darkness of a color
COLORS
SPACE

VALUE

TEXTURE

LINES SHAPE &

FORMS
Name: Title: Shading Rating:
Teacher: Berlita J. Ebardo Exercise 1 Date:
Quiz 2.