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 good brush care? (a) standing on its bristles (b) leaving it in water (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) washing with mild soap
- 2.📏 What kind of line does a jalebi look like? (a) zigzag line (b) wavy line (c) dotted or broken line (d) spiral line
- 3.🖌️ Which brush is best for thin lines and tiny details? (a) a small round brush (b) a sponge (c) a wide flat brush (d) a big roller
- 4.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) hard, light marks (c) medium marks
- 5.True or false: a sleeping person is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which of these looks like a dotted or broken line? (a) a laser beam (b) a wriggling snake (c) stitches on cloth (d) a tightly pulled rope
- 7.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: HB or 2B? (a) 2B (b) HB
- 8.🗿 A clay model you can walk around is an example of… (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape (c) a flat outline
- 9.✏️ A value scale goes from… (a) near to far (b) white to black (c) big to small (d) red to blue
- 10.What do we use a round brush for? (a) dabbing soft textures (b) rinsing brushes (c) fine lines and details (d) wide, straight strokes
- 11.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) sharpener (b) easel (c) palette (d) water pot
- 12.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lines all one way (b) lots of tiny dots (c) smooth, soft tones (d) criss-cross lines
- 13.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) line (b) form (c) space (d) colour
- 14.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the highlight? (a) the side away from light (b) the brightest spot (c) the darker half of it (d) its shadow on the table
- 15.True or false: “a long, thin mark” is the element called line. (a) True (b) False
- 16.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) do not smudge easily (b) soft, creamy sticks (c) thick, opaque paint (d) mixed with lots of water
- 17.Which of these is a diagonal line? (a) a leaning ladder (b) a tall lamp post (c) a standing tree trunk (d) the edge of a calm sea
- 18.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 19.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes soft, dark marks. (a) True (b) False
- 20.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part in between (b) the part farthest away (c) far hills and the sky (d) things that look biggest
- 21.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) a cut-here line (c) a row of pointy peaks (d) a flag in the wind
- 22.Which of these is shaped like a cone? (a) an ice-cream cone (b) a brick (c) a shoe box (d) a marble
- 23.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) texture (b) space (c) line (d) value
- 24.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) value (b) shape (c) space (d) line
- 25.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “mixed with lots of water”? (a) oil pastels (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) poster colour
- 26.True or false: a cuboid is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🔭 In a picture, an object that is partly hidden seems… (a) near the viewer (b) far away
- 28.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a brick (b) a dice (c) a globe (d) a water pipe
- 29.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) how a surface feels (b) only length and width (c) a flat 2D area (d) what a rainbow shows
- 30.📏 What kind of line does a snail shell look like? (a) spiral line (b) wavy line (c) zigzag line (d) straight line
- 31.🧱 Which element of art is “only length and width”? (a) value (b) space (c) shape (d) texture
- 32.📐 Is a pyramid a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 33.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) standing on its bristles (b) letting paint dry on it (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) washing with mild soap
- 35.True or false: on a shaded ball, where light hits most is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: we use a water pot for holding paper flat. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) texture (b) value (c) line (d) shape
- 38.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) foreground (b) background (c) middle ground
- 39.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 40.📐 Is a star a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
Answer key
- washing with mild soap
- spiral line
- a small round brush
- soft, dark marks
- True
- stitches on cloth
- 2B
- a 3D form
- white to black
- fine lines and details
- sharpener
- criss-cross lines
- form
- the brightest spot
- True
- mixed with lots of water
- a leaning ladder
- 8
- False
- things that look biggest
- a flag in the wind
- an ice-cream cone
- texture
- space
- watercolour
- False
- far away
- a brick
- how a surface feels
- spiral line
- shape
- a 3D form
- 7
- washing with mild soap
- False
- False
- value
- middle ground
- horizontal
- a 2D shape
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