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.True or false: an object that sits lower on the page seems far away. (a) False (b) True
- 2.📐 Is a cube a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 3.📏 What kind of line does a jalebi look like? (a) straight line (b) dotted or broken line (c) wavy line (d) spiral line
- 4.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a jalebi (b) a lightning bolt (c) the teeth of a saw (d) a cut-here line
- 5.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4B make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 6.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) glue (c) space (d) colour
- 7.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the side away from light called? (a) shadow side (b) highlight (c) cast shadow
- 8.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🧱 Which element of art is “the area around objects”? (a) space (b) colour (c) texture (d) line
- 10.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) poster colour (b) pencil (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
- 11.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) value (b) line (c) texture (d) frame
- 12.True or false: a paint splash is a geometric shape. (a) False (b) True
- 13.📏 Which line keeps turning around a centre point as it grows? (a) a spiral (b) a zigzag (c) a dotted line (d) a straight line
- 14.🧱 Which element of art is “how a surface feels”? (a) value (b) shape (c) colour (d) texture
- 15.Which of these is a feature of a pencil? (a) soft, light washes (b) mixed with lots of water (c) blend with a fingertip (d) light first outlines
- 16.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the darker half of it called? (a) cast shadow (b) highlight (c) shadow side
- 17.True or false: a tall lamp post is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 18.Which of these looks like a zigzag line? (a) a flag in the wind (b) a wriggling snake (c) a ruler’s edge (d) a row of pointy peaks
- 19.True or false: shading with lines all one way is called cross-hatching. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 21.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) 2H (b) 2B (c) HB (d) 4H
- 22.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) poster colour (b) watercolour (c) oil pastels (d) wax crayons
- 23.Which of these is good brush care? (a) leaving it in water (b) standing on its bristles (c) letting paint dry on it (d) reshaping the tip
- 24.True or false: a person standing tall is a vertical line. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🧊 How many flat faces does a cube have?
- 26.True or false: on a shaded ball, the side away from light is called the highlight. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: a coiled rope looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
- 28.In a landscape picture, which of these is the foreground? (a) far hills and the sky (b) the top of the scene (c) things that look biggest (d) the part in between
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cube (b) sphere (c) cylinder (d) triangle
- 30.🍃 Is a flower petal a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 31.🧱 Which element of art is “a sense of near and far”? (a) shape (b) texture (c) value (d) space
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cylinder (b) star (c) cube (d) cuboid
- 33.📏 What kind of line does a cut-here line look like? (a) zigzag line (b) straight line (c) wavy line (d) dotted or broken line
- 34.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) HB (b) 2H (c) 4B (d) B
- 35.📏 Draw a sleeping person with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) horizontal (b) diagonal (c) vertical
- 36.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “soft, light washes”? (a) wax crayons (b) watercolour (c) pencil (d) poster colour
- 37.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) off the page (b) in a corner (c) at the very edge (d) where the lines cross
- 38.True or false: a sleeping person is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🖌️ Is scrubbing hard on paper good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 40.True or false: a flag in the wind looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- False
- a 3D form
- spiral line
- a jalebi
- soft, dark marks
- glue
- shadow side
- True
- space
- pencil
- frame
- False
- a spiral
- texture
- light first outlines
- shadow side
- True
- a row of pointy peaks
- False
- 7
- HB
- poster colour
- reshaping the tip
- True
- 6
- False
- False
- things that look biggest
- triangle
- organic shape
- space
- star
- dotted or broken line
- 2H
- horizontal
- watercolour
- where the lines cross
- False
- bad for the brush
- False
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