10: Glossary
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- .PNG
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A file format that has the ability to preserve a transparent background
- aerial perspective
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a visual technique that shows objects in the distance as bluer, hazier, and less distinct.
- anterior
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the topmost part of the plant, where the shoot system emerges to create stem, leaves, buds, flowers, and fruits
- bleed
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Extending the image past a trim line so that the illustration prints to the edge of a page.
- chromolithograph
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a color print made using the lithographic process with multiple stones or plates, each inked in a different color. Made popular in the second half of the 19th century.
- CMYK
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Cyan Magenta Yellow and Key (Black); a color profile often used for printing as it matches the primary colors of ink
- codex
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a medieval bound manuscript book, made by hand
- color profile
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a digital designation used for printing; generally, images can be saved in grayscale, CMYK (for printing), or RGB (for web)
- copyright
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a sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work.
- cross-hatching
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Rendering with short parallel marks, with a second layer being applied at roughly a ninety degree angle to the first layer of marks.
- DPI
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Dots per inch; refers to the number of dots of ink or pixels that can fit in one square inch.
- end pages
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decorative pages that bind the backs of the front and back cover.
- ephemera
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Items that are not meant to last, such as artworks on paper.
- exclusive rights
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Exclusive rights grant a sole and unique authority to an individual or entity, allowing them to control the use, distribution, or commercialization of a specific work, property, or asset.
- fixative
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a spray that helps to set easily-smeared media, like pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, or pastel
- frame
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a box used to define a moment in time in a sequential narrative, like a comic, graphic novel, or picture book
- friable
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A medium that crumbles easily and so tends to smear on your support easily, like charcoal, pencil, or chalk pastels.
- Genus
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type of plant, ie. Heirloom tomato
- graphic narrative
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A story told in pictures, with or without text.
- gutter
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The area where a the pages of a book are gathered in order to be bound.
- hatching
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A mode of drawing that uses short, roughly parallel strokes to create tone.
- indemnification
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compensation for harm or loss
- kill fee
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a pre-agreed payment made to a freelancer when a project is cancelled or not published after it has been commissioned
- lateral organ
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branches or shoots that grow out from the main stem
- licensing
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Art licensing is the process where an artist grants a third party the right to use their artwork for specific purposes, usually for reproduction on products or in other commercial contexts, in exchange for payment. It's essentially "renting" your art to a company for a defined period and set of uses, while you retain the copyright.
- medium
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The substance or material one uses to make a work of art (ie., paint, pencil, ink, marble)
- pentimenti
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The visible lines made in a drawing or painting before the final lines of the work are found. From the Italian for "repentance", signifying that the artist has changed their mind.
- pitch
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a summary of what a client needs in their project. Can emcompass specific themes, moods, dimensions, and file types
- posterior
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the root system of a plant
- primary colors
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colors that cannot be created but exist as absolutes. In the artist's color wheel, it is red, yellow, and blue
- recto
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The front of a piece of a manuscript page or artwork on paper
- resolution
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the amount of information in a digital file per square inch.
- RGB
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Red/Green/Blue; the colors of light. This is a color profile used for web applications.
- royalty
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a sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work.
- safety area
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The area on a printable object where nothing will be trimmed
- screen-printing
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a printing technique that utilizes a mesh screen to transfer ink onto a substrate, with a stencil blocking out areas that should not be printed.
- sequential narrative
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A story taking place in a sequence of images: this can refer to film, illustrated books, or storyboards.
- species
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specific name of the type of plant, often given in a Latin designation
- specifications
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technical details regarding an image: color, size, font choices, bleed information, and file type are common aspects of specifications.
- splash
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an illustration that takes up an entire single page
- spot
- spot illustration
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an illustration meant to work in conjunction with text on the same page. Spots can sit anywhere on the page: as chapter headers, borders, or in the right or left margins.
- spread
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A single illustration that covers two pages of a book. Sometimes called a double page spread.
- spreads
- support
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paper, canvas, wood--whatever surface on which one creates a work of art
- thumbnails
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A small sketch that plahns out composition
- trim
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an area added to the edge of an illustration that gives room for the printer to cut the paper to size; this is often around 1/2" of extra space around all edges of a drawing.
- verso
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The back of a piece of a manuscript page or artwork on paper