Actual lines are real marks made in a composition. Implied lines are lines that are suggested by changes in colour, tone and texture or by the edges of shapes. Image caption, The Scream ...

This version of texture is known as “visual texture”. Some designers use the terminology of “Implied Texture”. Now, think of the last time you saw a photograph of a beach filled with rocks ...

Using shadow, tint and tone to add highlights and shading to a painting is visual – or implied – texture. Jan Van Eyck’s ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’ uses these techniques, creating the ...