Drawing and Painting Basics Test Worksheet
Artist's tip (Find the topic): Elements: line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value. Shading: highlight faces the light, cast shadow falls away from it; near = bigger, far = smaller. Materials: watercolour see-through, poster colour opaque, B soft and dark, H hard and light.
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- 1.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) smooth, soft tones (c) smudging with a finger (d) many parallel lines
- 2.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) soft, creamy sticks (b) do not smudge easily (c) grey lines for sketching (d) see-through colour
- 3.💡 The light comes from the LEFT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) inside the object (b) on the right side (c) on the left side (d) above the object
- 4.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) can be seen all round (b) a sense of near and far (c) a closed flat outline (d) looks furry or scaly
- 5.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the bottom of the page? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 6.Which clue shows an object is near the viewer? (a) looks paler and bluer (b) sits near the horizon (c) looks smaller (d) overlaps other things
- 7.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 8.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 9.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a zigzag line. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) shape (b) value (c) space (d) texture
- 11.Which of these is the element called line? (a) only length and width (b) has height, width, depth (c) rough, smooth or bumpy (d) a moving dot’s path
- 12.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the dark shape it throws (b) the side away from light (c) the brightest spot (d) where light hits most
- 13.🧊 Which 3D form is a dice shaped like? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) sphere (d) cube
- 14.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part farthest away? (a) background (b) middle ground (c) foreground
- 15.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cube (b) sphere (c) cylinder (d) star
- 16.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a person standing tall (c) a playground slide (d) a leaning ladder
- 17.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 18.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) only length and width (c) gaps between things (d) the area around objects
- 19.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 20.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cylinder (b) cube (c) cuboid (d) oval
- 21.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 22.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks paler and bluer seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 23.True or false: pencil grade HB makes medium marks. (a) True (b) False
- 24.💡 The light shines from straight above. Where is the cast shadow? (a) on the ceiling (b) above the object (c) in the sky (d) under the object
- 25.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, creamy sticks”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) watercolour (d) pencil
- 27.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a snail shell (b) dashes on a road (c) a coiled rope (d) a jalebi
- 28.True or false: in a landscape picture, far hills and the sky is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 29.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) foreground (c) vanishing point (d) border
- 30.Which of these is the element called space? (a) the area around objects (b) has height, width, depth (c) a flat 2D area (d) only length and width
- 31.True or false: a hexagon is an organic shape. (a) False (b) True
- 32.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 2B (b) 6B
- 33.True or false: a circle is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 34.📏 What kind of line does the teeth of a saw look like? (a) dotted or broken line (b) straight line (c) zigzag line (d) wavy line
- 35.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the shadow side. (a) False (b) True
- 36.What do we use a flat brush for? (a) fine lines and details (b) mixing colours (c) dabbing soft textures (d) wide, straight strokes
- 37.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) HB (b) 2B
- 38.True or false: a lightning bolt looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 39.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) rough, smooth or bumpy (b) from white to black (c) what a rainbow shows (d) how light or dark it is
- 40.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) the dark shape it throws (b) where light hits most (c) the darker half of it (d) its shadow on the table
Answer key
- many parallel lines
- grey lines for sketching
- on the right side
- a closed flat outline
- foreground
- overlaps other things
- False
- soft, dark marks
- False
- texture
- a moving dot’s path
- the dark shape it throws
- cube
- background
- star
- a person standing tall
- near the viewer
- only length and width
- 0
- oval
- 7
- far away
- True
- under the object
- False
- oil pastels
- dashes on a road
- False
- vanishing point
- the area around objects
- False
- 6B
- False
- zigzag line
- False
- wide, straight strokes
- 2B
- True
- rough, smooth or bumpy
- the darker half of it
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