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.🍃 Is a leaf a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) geometric shape (b) organic shape
- 2.True or false: pencil grade 2H makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 3.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part in between is the middle ground. (a) False (b) True
- 4.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) soft, dark marks (b) medium marks (c) hard, light marks
- 5.🧰 Which art tool do we use for fine lines and details? (a) palette (b) round brush (c) sharpener (d) easel
- 6.Which of these looks like a straight line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) a jalebi (c) a laser beam (d) a coiled rope
- 7.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 8.📏 What kind of line does stitches on cloth look like? (a) zigzag line (b) dotted or broken line (c) spiral line (d) straight line
- 9.Which of these is called cross-hatching? (a) lots of tiny dots (b) smudging with a finger (c) criss-cross lines (d) dots packed close
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looks bigger (b) sits near the horizon (c) looks smaller (d) is partly hidden
- 11.Which of these is the element called form? (a) a long, thin mark (b) gaps between things (c) a closed flat outline (d) has height, width, depth
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) washing with mild soap (b) scrubbing hard on paper (c) drying bristles up (d) reshaping the tip
- 13.🧱 Which element of art is “how light or dark it is”? (a) line (b) space (c) value (d) texture
- 14.🖌️ Is reshaping the tip good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) good brush care (b) bad for the brush
- 15.Which of these looks like a spiral line? (a) a lightning bolt (b) a laser beam (c) a wriggling snake (d) a jalebi
- 16.True or false: in a landscape picture, the top of the scene is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: a triangle is a geometric shape. (a) True (b) False
- 18.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the cast shadow? (a) the dark shape it throws (b) where light hits most (c) the side away from light (d) the brightest spot
- 19.📐 Is a triangle a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 3D form (b) a 2D shape
- 20.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) horizon (b) background (c) focal point (d) border
- 21.🧱 Which element of art is “has height, width, depth”? (a) value (b) shape (c) form (d) line
- 22.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 23.True or false: dark grey has a dark value. (a) False (b) True
- 24.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 2H make? (a) hard, light marks (b) soft, dark marks (c) medium marks
- 25.True or false: shading with dots packed close is called stippling. (a) False (b) True
- 26.📏 A line that goes straight across, like the horizon, is… (a) diagonal (b) vertical (c) horizontal
- 27.Which of these is called stippling? (a) smudging with a finger (b) many parallel lines (c) lines all one way (d) lots of tiny dots
- 28.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) the edge of a calm sea (b) a falling tree (c) a person standing tall (d) a playground slide
- 29.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 30.📏 What kind of line does a row of pointy peaks look like? (a) straight line (b) dotted or broken line (c) wavy line (d) zigzag line
- 31.True or false: pencil grade 4B makes medium marks. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scrubbing hard on paper (b) standing on its bristles (c) drying bristles up (d) letting paint dry on it
- 34.What do we use a water pot for? (a) giving a pencil a point (b) holding a board upright (c) rinsing brushes (d) fine lines and details
- 35.🧱 Which of these is NOT an element of art? (a) shape (b) colour (c) glue (d) space
- 36.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) feet (b) eyes (c) elbows (d) knees
- 37.True or false: pencil grade H makes hard, light marks. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “light first outlines”? (a) pencil (b) watercolour (c) poster colour (d) wax crayons
- 39.📏 Draw a falling tree with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) horizontal (c) diagonal
- 40.Which of these is a horizontal line? (a) a tall lamp post (b) a table top (c) a playground slide (d) a leaning ladder
Answer key
- organic shape
- False
- True
- hard, light marks
- round brush
- a laser beam
- 8
- dotted or broken line
- criss-cross lines
- looks bigger
- has height, width, depth
- scrubbing hard on paper
- value
- good brush care
- a jalebi
- False
- True
- the dark shape it throws
- a 2D shape
- focal point
- form
- 7
- True
- hard, light marks
- True
- horizontal
- lots of tiny dots
- the edge of a calm sea
- horizontal
- zigzag line
- False
- True
- drying bristles up
- rinsing brushes
- glue
- eyes
- True
- pencil
- diagonal
- a table top
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