7 Elements of Design

7 Elements of Design

Color

• It's a wavelength of light. Color can bring out emotion or represent a culture. Complementary colors can create a contrast and analogous colors can create a feeling of harmony. Monochromatic colors can demonstrate a variety of tints and shades with different colors. Also, colors can be cool or warm.

Value

• Value can show the different aspects of light and dark of colors. It can cover contrast between light and dark. Also, it can demonstrate depth.

Line

• They have positions, directions in space, and a dimension that demonstrates the length of them. They can run horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Also, they can be straight, curved, dotted, wavy, thick or thin. One purpose that they have is, they direct the eye of the reader and make sure that they're following along where they're supposed to. Lines show texture and sometimes emotion.  

Shape

• Shapes are closed line two or three dimensional figures. They have length and width and can show perspective and may serve the purpose or at least some of the duties as a line.

Form

• Form is usually shown in a three dimensional way. It adds depth to the lengths and widths of shapes. Also, if you add shading to a shape it can add the illusion of form.

Texture

• Texture helps add feel and look to a surface. It can show that a surface is soft, hard, smooth, rough, wet, or dry. 

Space

• Space is the area around an object, in a object, or even between objects. It can give a effect of depth has positive and negative qualities. Positive space is the subject of a piece and negative space can balance and highlight shapes.

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