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  2. Perspective (graphical) - Wikipedia

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    Artists may choose to "correct" perspective distortions, for example by drawing all spheres as perfect circles, or by drawing figures as if centered on the direction of view. In practice, unless the viewer observes the image from an extreme angle, like standing far to the side of a painting, the perspective normally looks more or less correct.

  3. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    One Hebrew script was only used for religious literature and by a small community of Samaritans up until the sixth century BC. Aramaic was the official script of the Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian empires and 'Square Hebrew' (the script now used in Israel) developed from Aramaic around the third century AD.

  4. Triadic-line poetry - Wikipedia

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    Triadic-line poetry or stepped line is a long line which "unfolds into three descending and indented parts". [1] Created by William Carlos Williams , it was his "solution to the problem of modern verse" [ 2 ] and later was also taken up by poets Charles Tomlinson and Thom Gunn .

  5. Contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    In a continuous-line drawing, the artist looks both at the subject and the paper, moving the medium over the paper, and creating a silhouette of the object. Like blind contour drawing, contour drawing is an artful experience that relies more on sensation than perception; it's important to be guided by instinct. [2]

  6. Surrealist techniques - Wikipedia

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    Entopic graphomania [8] is a surrealist and automatic method of drawing in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots; these can be either "curved lines... or straight lines". [9] Ithell Colquhoun described its results as "the most austere kind of geometric abstraction."

  7. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    work out points of view, camera angles, and character positions within panels; serve as a basis for the next stage of development, the "pencil" stage, where detailed drawings are produced in a more polished layout which will, in turn, serve as the basis for the inked drawings. In fiction writing, a plot outline gives a list of scenes.

  8. Line art - Wikipedia

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    Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight lines or curved lines placed against a background (usually plain). Two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects are often represented through shade (darkness) or hue . Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic.

  9. List of art techniques - Wikipedia

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    Transfer technique (drawing) Trompe-l'œil technique Verdaille example A Chinoiserie Procession of Figures Riding on Elephants with Temples Beyond by Jean-Baptiste Pillement