The document provides 20 guidelines for creating correct art that demonstrates techniques like depth, distance, and three-dimensional form. The guidelines cover techniques such as using foreshortening when drawing objects at an edge, using shadows and shading to show light and dark areas, adding contour lines to show objects as full rather than flat, manipulating the horizon line and level of detail to indicate distance, and drawing overlapping and larger objects to depict relative closeness. The final guideline notes that the rules can be broken when there is an intelligent, logical reason to do so.

1. Twenty Guidelines
for Correct Art
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2. Directions:
• Delete all gray boxes – the visual directions.
• Insert a larger correct example on the right.
• Insert a small incorrect example on the left.
• READ and follow these
directions, then delete this slide.
Ten General Guidelines for Quality Art

3. 11. Objects drawn on their edge
create the illusion that part of the
object is closer – foreshortening.
flat view edge view
First of Four Techniques for Demonstrating Depth

4. 12. Shadows are created when an object blocks the
light. Shadows fall outside of the object, on the
opposite side of the light source.
Hint: Search using the word shadow to find a correct picture. Use the same picture for both the correct and
incorrect examples. Find a sun in clip art. Position the sun in the correct and incorrect locations.
Second of Four Techniques for Demonstrating Depth

5. 13. Shading is an area of light and dark on the object.
It turns a flat object into a three dimensional object.
Third of Four Techniques for Demonstrating Depth

6. 14. Objects, which are drawn with a contour line –
that is a line that wraps along the outside edge
of a round object, will create the illusion that
the object is full – not flat.
without contour line
with contour line
Fourth of Four Techniques for Demonstrating Depth

7. 15. A horizon line placed high in the picture
creates the feeling of being close.
A low horizon line creates a feeling of being far away.
First of Six Techniques for Demonstrating Distance

8. 16. Close objects have detail;
far away objects are out of sharp focus.
Skip for now: you will be creating the incorrect example in Photoshop soon.
with sharp detail fuzzy detail, out of focus
Second of Six Techniques for Demonstrating Distance

9. 17. Close objects have strong contrast
(dark blacks and light whites).
Far away objects are gray.
Skip for now: you will be creating the incorrect example in Photoshop soon.
with sharp detail fuzzy detail, out of focus
Third of Six Techniques for Demonstrating Distance

10. 18. Close objects are positioned lower
(near the bottom) on the paper surface.
Fourth of Six Techniques for Demonstrating Distance

11. 19. Objects drawn so that
they overlap in front of other
objects appear closer.
Fifth of Six Techniques for Demonstrating Distance

12. 20. Generally, objects that
are drawn large will look
closer than smaller objects.
Sixth of Six Techniques for Demonstrating Distance

13. When should you break the
20 rules for correct art?
• Whenever you have an
intelligent, logical reason.
• Are you able to verbalize a good reason for
breaking the rule? If so, break the rule!
Ten General Guidelines for Quality Art