Space

Space.
It has an impact on virtually anything. Functionality, emotions are the two main things that come to mind when I think of the artistic element of space. Different kinds of space are needed for different functions. To play soccer you need greater open (negative) space. Emotion is impacted by space as well. In an empty elevator I tend to feel like I'm being pulled outwards while in a crowded elevator I feel pushed inwards. Sitting alone in an open field looking up into the vast endless sky will give you a different feeling than sitting in a lecture filled with people staring at the same useless information scrawled onto a whiteboard by a tired, unpassionate teacher. Space represents emotion and functionality. Looking at a picture of a little girl standing in the middle of an empty street will give you a different idea and emotion of the story behind the photo than of a little girl standing next to who seem to be her parents at a crowded fair.

VALUE

VALUE

Value is everything.

Value is the cake itself while colour is the icing.

Value is the element using  darkness and lightness 

to reveal surface changes.

Value is not colour, everything can have colour but without value it will not look 3-D. One would not be able to tell the difference between a smooth shiny shape and a rough surface.

One can see that this image of a rose does not have any sharp edges, nor does it have glossy shiny surfaces. One can decipher this by observing the gradual change in value. A sudden shift would indicate a sudden surface change and that it is not a rounded surface and may also reveal a sharp edge.

The above image shows four of the five ways to render values in art. The five ways are cross hatching, parallel hatching, scribbling, shading and stippling.