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 pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) HB (b) 4H (c) 2H (d) H
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) washing with mild soap (b) reshaping the tip (c) scrubbing hard on paper (d) drying bristles up
- 3.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a football (b) a water pipe (c) a marble (d) a matchbox
- 4.📐 Is an oval a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 5.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 6.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the side away from light called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 7.Which of these is bad for the brush? (a) letting paint dry on it (b) rinsing between colours (c) drying bristles up (d) reshaping the tip
- 8.True or false: “gaps between things” is the element called space. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call far hills and the sky? (a) background (b) foreground (c) middle ground
- 10.🔭 In a picture, an object that sits lower on the page seems… (a) far away (b) near the viewer
- 11.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “flowing and graceful”? (a) diagonal lines (b) vertical lines (c) curved lines (d) zigzag lines
- 12.Which of these is a feature of watercolour? (a) see-through colour (b) hard, waxy sticks (c) blend with a fingertip (d) light first outlines
- 13.🛤️ Railway tracks going into the distance seem to meet at the… (a) highlight (b) vanishing point (c) border (d) foreground
- 14.🏞️ In a landscape picture, what do we call the part in between? (a) middle ground (b) foreground (c) background
- 15.In a landscape picture, which of these is the background? (a) the part nearest you (b) things that look biggest (c) the part in between (d) far hills and the sky
- 16.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) the part farthest away (b) the part in between (c) the part nearest you (d) far hills and the sky
- 17.🧱 Which element of art is “a solid 3D object”? (a) space (b) line (c) form (d) colour
- 18.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 19.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) a tightly pulled rope (b) a jalebi (c) a wriggling snake (d) a coiled rope
- 20.🍦 How many flat faces does a cone have?
- 21.True or false: “how a surface feels” is the element called texture. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? (a) palette (b) sponge (c) masking tape (d) water pot
- 23.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a zigzag (c) a straight line (d) a dotted line
- 24.True or false: a star is a flat 2D shape. (a) False (b) True
- 25.Which of these is the element called line? (a) a moving dot’s path (b) how light or dark it is (c) has height, width, depth (d) only length and width
- 26.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) eyes (b) elbows (c) feet (d) knees
- 27.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) 2H (b) 4H (c) H (d) 2B
- 28.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) highlight (b) shadow side (c) cast shadow
- 29.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) texture (b) space (c) value (d) shape
- 30.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a form (b) a sculpture (c) a cube (d) a shape
- 31.🧱 Which element of art tells how light or dark something is? (a) shape (b) line (c) texture (d) value
- 32.True or false: we use a sponge for dabbing soft textures. (a) False (b) True
- 33.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) rectangle (b) square (c) pyramid (d) star
- 34.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) on the right side (b) inside the object (c) on the left side (d) above the object
- 35.True or false: an object that overlaps other things seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🧊 Which 3D form is a traffic cone shaped like? (a) cuboid (b) cone (c) cube (d) cylinder
- 37.📏 What kind of line does dashes on a road look like? (a) wavy line (b) zigzag line (c) straight line (d) dotted or broken line
- 38.✏️ Which shading method uses many parallel lines? (a) hatching (b) cross-hatching (c) stippling (d) blending
- 39.📏 What kind of line does a lightning bolt look like? (a) straight line (b) spiral line (c) zigzag line (d) dotted or broken line
- 40.True or false: dashes on a road looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- HB
- scrubbing hard on paper
- a matchbox
- a 2D shape
- True
- shadow side
- letting paint dry on it
- True
- background
- near the viewer
- curved lines
- see-through colour
- vanishing point
- middle ground
- far hills and the sky
- the part nearest you
- form
- diagonal
- a wriggling snake
- 1
- True
- palette
- a spiral
- True
- a moving dot’s path
- eyes
- 2B
- shadow side
- value
- a shape
- value
- True
- pyramid
- on the left side
- False
- cone
- dotted or broken line
- hatching
- zigzag line
- True
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