Texture

Definition of Texture
Texture describes the tactile quality of a form. Accurate rendering of an object's texture is the key to very realistic (particularly 'photo-realistic') drawing. The textures of some objects can be particularly challenging due to movement (water), fine detail (skin surface and hair, grass, leaves) or their ethereal quality (cloud, glass). The texture in a drawing is also a product of the support, such as paper or canvas. Some papers, particularly those for pastel and watercolor, have a textured surface due to the fibres or the mold used to make the paper. Different mediums will show up the inherent texture in the paper.

TEXTURES are "surface" designs which support the illusion of real substances or present invented composites. There are 2 types of texture. ACTUAL texturesrefers to surface illusions of wood, water, glass, clouds, fabrics, metal, etc.
 * Types of Texture **



for example the Painters and sculptors who work in the Realist style imitate natural surfaces and textures. The actual texture of a painting or sculpture may not be at all the same as the "visual texture" that the artist is imitating.

In the detail of this painting, you can see the artist's successful imitation of the surface of a soap bubble. Its "visual texture" appears to be wet and shiny. If you look more closely, you can see the actual texture created by the artist's application of paint

What is it that the texture describes of an object?
Texture describes the relative smoothness or roughness of a surface. It also describes the characteristic surface quality of familiar materials.



How can texture influence the characteristics of a space?
Scale, distance and light are important modifying factors in our perception of textures and the surfaces they articulate. All materials have some degrees of textures, but the fine of the scale, as well as the distance creates smoothness or roughness, almost all textures are relatively smooth when seen from a distance. Textures without directional grains can accentuate a plains length or width. The relative scale can affect the shape and position of a plain in space. In general textures tend to visually fill the space where we live.
 * What is the importance of texture in architecture?**

Texture is extremely important in architecture, as light it can determine the way we see the space and plains. Texture affects the visual perception, and since architecture is all about defining spaces and creating feelings, if texture is used wisely, it can be very useful for an architect. Also texture allows us to accentuate the different volumes present in a building, according to their uses or simply to accentuate that important part of a building. Texture also allows architects to create spaces according to feelings; the smoothness of a wall is warmer that the roughness of a stone, if the architect wants to create a more peaceful place. Texture, as light, is extremely important to architecture, since they two of the weapons architects have to create