The Distress Scale

SIGNS OF DISTRESS

Primary Signs (Weakness)

1) Slack motion

2) Slack, non-elastic stroke

3) Fragile stroke

4) Stroke interruption (uncontrolled breaks)

Primary Signs (Uncontrolled Drives)

5) Spongy stroke

6) Crude stroke

7) Hyperkinesis

Secondary Signs (Tension)

8) Narrowness

9) Cover Strokes

10) Contracted movement

11) Tense, non-elastic stroke

12) Hard stroke

13) Corrections by retouching and easing

14) Fixational blackening

Secondary Signs (Overcompensating Control)

15) Very regular arrangement

16) Stylisation, from interpretation of the test

17) Hatching of the plane

Maladjustment to the Environment

18) Disrupted space, disharmonious, empty areas

19) Entanglements

20) Final blocking

21) Roughing of the pla