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  • Rectus abdomininis: Stomach or "sit-up" muscle
  • Local color (A), reflected color (B): [INSERT IMAGE]
  • Reflected light (A), glare (B), and back lighting (C): [INSERT IMAGE]
  • Rhyming shapes/ negative and positive space:
  • Scale: The proportion used in determining the relationship of a representation to that which it represents; a progressive classification as to size, amount, etc.
  • Scumbling: The softening of colors or outlines of a painting by covering with a film of dry opaque- or semi-opaque color by rubbing
  • Secondary (A) and primary (B) colors: (A)Orange, green and purple, (B)Red, yellow, and blue
  • Sfumato: The gradual bending of light into shadow
  • Silhouette: A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile filled in with solid color and appearing dark against A light background, or vice versa
  • Smooth shade (1), switchbacks (2), stippling (3), cross hatch (4): 1) 2) 3) 4)
  • Storyboard: A series of sketches often with captions or words describing dialogue or narration
  • Subtlety: The quality or state of being so slight as to be difficult to detect or analyze; elusive; not immediately obvious; abstruse; able to make fine distinctions
  • Superimposition: To lay or place upon or over something, often transparently; a visual integration
  • Symmetry: Correspondence of form and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a boundary, such as a plane or line, or around a point or axis
  • Tessellation: Covering a surface or plane (infinitely) without gaps or overlaps by a pattern of one or more congruent shapes
  • Thaumatropes: An animation device consisting of cards with different designs on either side, which, when turned, appear to blend into one image
  • Transparent and translucent: Capable of transmitting light so that objects or images can be seen as if there were no intervening material, or causing sufficient diffusion to eliminate perception of distinct images
  • Trapezius: Nect-to-arms-to-back or "shrugging" muscle
  • Two and three dimensional: Measures of spatial extent, especially width, height, or length

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