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 candle shaped like? (a) sphere (b) cuboid (c) cylinder (d) cube
- 2.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a dotted line (b) a wavy line (c) a straight line (d) a zigzag line
- 3.True or false: a wriggling snake looks like a wavy line. (a) True (b) False
- 4.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 2H (b) B (c) 2B (d) 6B
- 5.True or false: “from white to black” is the element called shape. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which of these is a vertical line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a playground slide (c) a falling tree (d) a leaning ladder
- 7.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 4B (b) 4H (c) 2B (d) 6B
- 8.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 9.📏 A line that goes straight up and down, like a flagpole, is… (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 10.✏️ Which shading method uses lines crossing over? (a) blending (b) hatching (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
- 11.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cube (b) cylinder (c) square (d) sphere
- 12.Which of these is a feature of poster colour? (a) bright, flat colour (b) soft, light washes (c) mixed with lots of water (d) do not smudge easily
- 13.Which pencil grade makes medium marks? (a) B (b) HB (c) 4B (d) H
- 14.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) ocean waves (b) a wriggling snake (c) stitches on cloth (d) a snail shell
- 15.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “see-through colour”? (a) oil pastels (b) pencil (c) wax crayons (d) watercolour
- 16.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2B make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 17.Which pencil grade makes soft, dark marks? (a) HB (b) H (c) 2H (d) 2B
- 18.Which of these looks like a wavy line? (a) dashes on a road (b) a jalebi (c) a flag in the wind (d) a lightning bolt
- 19.Which clue shows an object is far away? (a) shows more detail (b) overlaps other things (c) looks bigger (d) shows less detail
- 20.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) glue (b) colour (c) space (d) shape
- 21.🧱 Which element of art is “what a rainbow shows”? (a) value (b) line (c) shape (d) colour
- 22.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) where light hits most (b) its shadow on the table (c) the dark shape it throws (d) the darker half of it
- 23.True or false: on a shaded ball, the dark shape it throws is called the shadow side. (a) True (b) False
- 24.⬜⬛ Does dark grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) dark value (b) light value
- 25.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) focal point (b) horizon (c) border (d) background
- 26.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the highlight. (a) True (b) False
- 27.True or false: white has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 28.Which of these is a feature of wax crayons? (a) bright, flat colour (b) thick, opaque paint (c) light first outlines (d) do not smudge easily
- 29.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 30.🖼️ How many lines (across and down) do you draw for the rule of thirds?
- 31.True or false: shading with many parallel lines is called hatching. (a) True (b) False
- 32.Which of these is a flat 2D shape? (a) cuboid (b) sphere (c) oval (d) pyramid
- 33.True or false: rinsing between colours is bad for the brush. (a) True (b) False
- 34.True or false: shading with smudging with a finger is called blending. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: we use masking tape for holding paper flat. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) colour (b) space (c) shape (d) value
- 37.True or false: in a landscape picture, things that look biggest is the foreground. (a) False (b) True
- 38.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) medium marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) hard, light marks
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) rinsing between colours (b) letting paint dry on it (c) reshaping the tip (d) drying bristles up
- 40.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) the teeth of a saw (b) dashes on a road (c) a ruler’s edge (d) stitches on cloth
Answer key
- cylinder
- a wavy line
- True
- 2H
- False
- a tall lamp post
- 4H
- diagonal
- vertical
- cross-hatching
- square
- bright, flat colour
- HB
- a snail shell
- watercolour
- soft, dark marks
- 2B
- a flag in the wind
- shows less detail
- glue
- colour
- the darker half of it
- False
- dark value
- focal point
- True
- True
- do not smudge easily
- hard, light marks
- 4
- True
- oval
- False
- True
- True
- value
- True
- soft, dark marks
- letting paint dry on it
- a ruler’s edge
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