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.📏 What kind of line does a ruler’s edge look like? (a) straight line (b) zigzag line (c) dotted or broken line (d) wavy line
- 2.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 3.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 4.True or false: a coiled rope looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 5.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) dashes on a road (b) a flag in the wind (c) a lightning bolt (d) a coiled rope
- 6.True or false: we use a sharpener for giving a pencil a point. (a) False (b) True
- 7.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of wax crayons. (a) False (b) True
- 8.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a playground slide (b) a standing tree trunk (c) a sleeping person (d) a leaning ladder
- 9.🧱 Which element of art is “a closed flat outline”? (a) colour (b) form (c) texture (d) shape
- 10.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) border (c) vanishing point (d) foreground
- 11.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 12.True or false: “gaps between things” is the element called value. (a) False (b) True
- 13.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part in between is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 14.True or false: a square is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 15.True or false: a coiled rope looks like a zigzag line. (a) False (b) True
- 16.⚽ How many flat faces does a sphere have?
- 17.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) the brightest spot (b) where light hits most (c) the darker half of it (d) its shadow on the table
- 18.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 19.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 20.📏 What kind of line does a coiled rope look like? (a) zigzag line (b) spiral line (c) dotted or broken line (d) wavy line
- 21.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 22.🧊 Which 3D form is a party hat shaped like? (a) sphere (b) cylinder (c) cone (d) cuboid
- 23.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 24.💡 On a shaded ball, what is where light hits most called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 25.True or false: a cylinder is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🔭 In a picture, an object that shows more detail seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 27.⬜⬛ Does navy blue have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 28.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 29.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 30.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 31.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 32.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a wriggling snake (b) a ruler’s edge (c) a flag in the wind (d) a row of pointy peaks
- 33.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “do not smudge easily”? (a) pencil (b) wax crayons (c) oil pastels (d) poster colour
- 34.🌳 Two trees are the same size, but one looks smaller in the picture. That tree is… (a) taller (b) closer to you (c) younger (d) farther away
- 35.True or false: shading with criss-cross lines is called cross-hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 36.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) is partly hidden (b) sits lower on the page (c) looks bigger (d) shows more detail
- 37.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 38.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) line (b) easel (c) form (d) value
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) overlaps other things (b) looks paler and bluer (c) sits near the horizon (d) shows less detail
- 40.Which of these is the element called space? (a) a closed flat outline (b) a flat 2D area (c) gaps between things (d) has height, width, depth
Answer key
- straight line
- soft, dark marks
- True
- False
- a flag in the wind
- True
- False
- a sleeping person
- shape
- vanishing point
- False
- False
- False
- True
- False
- 0
- the darker half of it
- medium marks
- 7
- spiral line
- hard, light marks
- cone
- near the viewer
- highlight
- True
- near the viewer
- dark value
- 6
- far away
- True
- hard, light marks
- a row of pointy peaks
- wax crayons
- farther away
- True
- is partly hidden
- horizontal
- easel
- overlaps other things
- gaps between things
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