DSN S 131 Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Perceptual skills - CORRECT ANSWER how to see
Manual skills - CORRECT ANSWER control materials using our hands
Compostional skills - CORRECT ANSWER become aware of organizing the elements of a
drawing and can quickly work through several different design options through preliminary sketches
Conceptual skills - CORRECT ANSWER drawing is the most efficient way to think through
and give form to visual ideas
Drawing - CORRECT ANSWER language, awakens our vision, seeing and communicating, a
way of thinking, make a feeling visible, constant learning process
4 stages of Creativity - CORRECT ANSWER Inspiration: stimulation/experience
Incubation: period where conscious mind rests and turns to other things while subconscious takes over
Illumination: emergence of a solution
Resolution: giving final form to the idea
Object analogy - CORRECT ANSWER take a look at an object and recognize how that object
is similar to your problem
Metamorphosis - CORRECT ANSWER traits of two things combine to form a new image
Metaphoric thinking - CORRECT ANSWER compares meaning and attributes of one thing to
the meaning and attributes of something else
Word lists - CORRECT ANSWER who, what, where, when, why, how
, Play - CORRECT ANSWER creating art out of a game. Passing paper around and each adding
a piece
Brainstorming - CORRECT ANSWER work with a group of people and write notes or draw
quickly on a large surface so everyone can react to the accumulated connections
Looking at opposites - CORRECT ANSWER visual and verbal opposites can generate new
visual ideas (Love and Hate) (Male and Female)
Using manipulative verbs - CORRECT ANSWER action words can stimulate creative thinking
and visual ideas. (crack, submerge)
Looking at Nature - CORRECT ANSWER use nature studies for ideas
Design - CORRECT ANSWER the organization or arrangement of design elements to give
form to a visual idea
Design elements - CORRECT ANSWER line, shape, volume, value, texture, space, and color
Format - CORRECT ANSWER shape and dimensions of the drawing
Thumbnail sketches - CORRECT ANSWER small, quick, preliminary organizational line
drawings that investigate a range of possible compositional alternatives
Organizational line drawing - CORRECT ANSWER light simple sketch that concentrates on
mapping out general size and location relationships between forms and the drawing's compositional
structure
Pentimenti - CORRECT ANSWER light, preliminary marks which serve as a tentative
underdrawing. Mistakes left un-erased by the artist, record of the drawing process
Subject matter - CORRECT ANSWER that which is depicted in the drawing
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Perceptual skills - CORRECT ANSWER how to see
Manual skills - CORRECT ANSWER control materials using our hands
Compostional skills - CORRECT ANSWER become aware of organizing the elements of a
drawing and can quickly work through several different design options through preliminary sketches
Conceptual skills - CORRECT ANSWER drawing is the most efficient way to think through
and give form to visual ideas
Drawing - CORRECT ANSWER language, awakens our vision, seeing and communicating, a
way of thinking, make a feeling visible, constant learning process
4 stages of Creativity - CORRECT ANSWER Inspiration: stimulation/experience
Incubation: period where conscious mind rests and turns to other things while subconscious takes over
Illumination: emergence of a solution
Resolution: giving final form to the idea
Object analogy - CORRECT ANSWER take a look at an object and recognize how that object
is similar to your problem
Metamorphosis - CORRECT ANSWER traits of two things combine to form a new image
Metaphoric thinking - CORRECT ANSWER compares meaning and attributes of one thing to
the meaning and attributes of something else
Word lists - CORRECT ANSWER who, what, where, when, why, how
, Play - CORRECT ANSWER creating art out of a game. Passing paper around and each adding
a piece
Brainstorming - CORRECT ANSWER work with a group of people and write notes or draw
quickly on a large surface so everyone can react to the accumulated connections
Looking at opposites - CORRECT ANSWER visual and verbal opposites can generate new
visual ideas (Love and Hate) (Male and Female)
Using manipulative verbs - CORRECT ANSWER action words can stimulate creative thinking
and visual ideas. (crack, submerge)
Looking at Nature - CORRECT ANSWER use nature studies for ideas
Design - CORRECT ANSWER the organization or arrangement of design elements to give
form to a visual idea
Design elements - CORRECT ANSWER line, shape, volume, value, texture, space, and color
Format - CORRECT ANSWER shape and dimensions of the drawing
Thumbnail sketches - CORRECT ANSWER small, quick, preliminary organizational line
drawings that investigate a range of possible compositional alternatives
Organizational line drawing - CORRECT ANSWER light simple sketch that concentrates on
mapping out general size and location relationships between forms and the drawing's compositional
structure
Pentimenti - CORRECT ANSWER light, preliminary marks which serve as a tentative
underdrawing. Mistakes left un-erased by the artist, record of the drawing process
Subject matter - CORRECT ANSWER that which is depicted in the drawing
