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 3D form is a traffic cone shaped like? (a) cone (b) sphere (c) cube (d) cylinder
- 2.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 3.🧰 Which art tool do we use for wide, straight strokes? (a) masking tape (b) easel (c) sponge (d) flat brush
- 4.True or false: a standing tree trunk is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 5.📏 Draw a leaning ladder with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 6.True or false: “bright, flat colour” is a feature of watercolour. (a) True (b) False
- 7.True or false: a table top is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 8.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) texture (d) frame
- 9.True or false: we use a sharpener for giving a pencil a point. (a) False (b) True
- 10.True or false: a jalebi looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 11.💧 Which paint gives soft, see-through layers? (a) poster colour (b) oil pastels (c) watercolour (d) wax crayons
- 12.True or false: a snail shell looks like a wavy line. (a) False (b) True
- 13.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a sleeping person (b) a tall lamp post (c) a leaning ladder (d) the edge of a calm sea
- 14.Which of these is called hatching? (a) dots packed close (b) criss-cross lines (c) many parallel lines (d) lots of tiny dots
- 15.True or false: washing with mild soap is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 16.Which of these is the element called value? (a) gaps between things (b) has height, width, depth (c) from white to black (d) what a rainbow shows
- 17.True or false: “a hue, like red or blue” is the element called form. (a) False (b) True
- 18.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 19.🧰 Which art tool do we use for fine lines and details? (a) round brush (b) sharpener (c) flat brush (d) water pot
- 20.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 21.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) overlaps other things (b) sits lower on the page (c) looks bigger (d) looks paler and bluer
- 22.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 23.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) blending (b) stippling (c) cross-hatching (d) hatching
- 24.📏 Draw the edge of a calm sea with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 25.🔭 In a picture, an object that looks bigger seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sphere (b) square (c) circle (d) oval
- 27.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) H (c) B (d) 6B
- 28.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 29.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
- 30.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called blending. (a) True (b) False
- 31.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 32.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 33.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the foreground. (a) True (b) False
- 34.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) grey lines for sketching (b) light first outlines (c) soft, light washes (d) thick, opaque paint
- 35.🖼️ In the rule of thirds grid, how many points are there where the lines cross?
- 36.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems near the viewer. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: a cuboid is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🧱 Which element of art is “from white to black”? (a) line (b) form (c) value (d) shape
- 39.⬜⬛ Does white have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cone (b) cuboid (c) cube (d) circle
Answer key
- cone
- soft, dark marks
- flat brush
- True
- diagonal
- False
- True
- frame
- True
- False
- watercolour
- False
- a leaning ladder
- many parallel lines
- False
- from white to black
- False
- a 2D shape
- round brush
- 7
- looks paler and bluer
- good brush care
- hatching
- horizontal
- near the viewer
- sphere
- H
- False
- 2B
- False
- horizontal
- bad for the brush
- True
- thick, opaque paint
- 4
- True
- False
- value
- light value
- circle
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