Questions and Answers
Visual Elements Definition - Answer- The basic elements that reflect the choices
made by illustrators as they decide what and how to illustrate the story, how to move
the illustrations from page to page and how to design the visual packaging of the
book.
What are the visual elements? - Answer- Line, shape, color, space, light,
perspective, and texture as they come together to create a composition.
Lines - Answer- Are the continuous stroke marks in a picture that defines shapes
and creates texture.
What kind of lines can an artist make? - Answer- Lines that are dark or pale, heavy
or light, solid or broken, wide or thin, and straight or curved.
Implied Line - Answer- Not an actual stroke mark, but an arrangement of objects to
create an illusion of a line.
Shape - Answer- The spatial forms of a picture, is produced by lines and areas of
color joining and intersecting to suggest outlines of forms.
What kind of shapes can there be? - Answer- Simple or complex, large or small,
clearly defined or amorphous, and rigid (geometric shapes) or flexible (organic
shapes).
Distinctly outlines figures project what? - Answer- Security, reality, or permanence.
Broken or outlined figures project what? - Answer- Instability, make-believe, or
transience.
Shapes help me to make what? - Answer- Helps to create moods and carry
messages.
Color - Answer- Involves a consideration of hue and intensity.
Hue - Answer- Is the color itself, with predominant colors ranging from the cool end
of the spectrum or from the warm end.
Value - Answer- The amount of light and dark that artists use in an illustration.
Space - Answer- Refers to distance from one point to another in illustrations.
Perspective - Answer- Is an aspect of space used by illustrators to highlight
particular details in their visual images.