There are a variety of ways to communicate with someone - you can shout across the street, you can call someone on the telephone, you can write a letter, you can even email an almost instantaneous message. But what do all these forms of communication have in common?

People use all these different forms of communication
to share feelings and thoughts.

People who create and use graphics do the same thing through their images. They are sharing their thoughts and feelings through their artwork.

Like the words that people use in spoken communications, the language of non-verbal communications has its own special vocabulary.