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: in a landscape picture, the part farthest away is the background. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🧱 Which element of art is “gaps between things”? (a) shape (b) form (c) colour (d) space
- 3.📐 Is a cone a flat 2D shape or a solid 3D form? (a) a 2D shape (b) a 3D form
- 4.✏️ To show water in a river, which line works best? (a) a wavy line (b) a straight line (c) a zigzag line (d) a dotted line
- 5.True or false: a ruler’s edge looks like a straight line. (a) True (b) False
- 6.True or false: a sleeping person is a horizontal line. (a) False (b) True
- 7.✏️ In a pencil grade, what does the letter H stand for? (a) high (b) hard (c) heavy (d) hot
- 8.True or false: a flower petal is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 9.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 10.True or false: a pyramid is a solid 3D form. (a) True (b) False
- 11.Which of these is the element called shape? (a) how light or dark it is (b) only length and width (c) what a rainbow shows (d) how a surface feels
- 12.True or false: a puddle is an organic shape. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 14.True or false: we use a palette for wide, straight strokes. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: a cut-here line looks like a dotted or broken line. (a) True (b) False
- 16.Which of these is called hatching? (a) smudging with a finger (b) dots packed close (c) lines crossing over (d) lines all one way
- 17.💡 The light comes from the RIGHT. Where does the cast shadow fall? (a) inside the object (b) on the left side (c) above the object (d) on the right side
- 18.🌅 The horizon line is drawn at the level of your… (a) feet (b) eyes (c) knees (d) elbows
- 19.🖼️ In the rule of thirds, where should the main subject go? (a) where the lines cross (b) in a corner (c) off the page (d) at the very edge
- 20.💡 On a shaded ball, what is the brightest spot called? (a) cast shadow (b) shadow side (c) highlight
- 21.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade B make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 22.Which of these is a solid 3D form? (a) circle (b) rectangle (c) square (d) sphere
- 23.📐 Which has only length and width, and no depth? (a) a cube (b) a shape (c) a form (d) a sculpture
- 24.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) can be seen all round (b) a flat 2D area (c) gaps between things (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 25.Which of these is the element called space? (a) the area around objects (b) has height, width, depth (c) a long, thin mark (d) a moving dot’s path
- 26.Which of these is the element called value? (a) a hue, like red or blue (b) a closed flat outline (c) how light or dark it is (d) a long, thin mark
- 27.🧱 Which element of art is “a hue, like red or blue”? (a) texture (b) shape (c) value (d) colour
- 28.True or false: a person standing tall is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which of these is the element called texture? (a) only length and width (b) a sense of near and far (c) looks furry or scaly (d) a long, thin mark
- 30.True or false: black has a light value. (a) True (b) False
- 31.Which of these is called stippling? (a) lines crossing over (b) lines all one way (c) many parallel lines (d) dots packed close
- 32.⬜⬛ Does black have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 33.On a shaded ball, which of these is called the shadow side? (a) the darker half of it (b) the brightest spot (c) the dark shape it throws (d) where light hits most
- 34.True or false: pale yellow has a light value. (a) False (b) True
- 35.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: “grey lines for sketching” is a feature of watercolour. (a) False (b) True
- 37.✏️ Which pencil makes darker lines: 2B or 6B? (a) 6B (b) 2B
- 38.🖍️ Which art material has this feature: “thick, opaque paint”? (a) wax crayons (b) oil pastels (c) poster colour (d) watercolour
- 39.✏️ Which shading method uses smudging with a finger? (a) hatching (b) blending (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
- 40.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade HB make? (a) hard, light marks (b) medium marks (c) soft, dark marks
Answer key
- True
- space
- a 3D form
- a wavy line
- True
- True
- hard
- True
- True
- True
- only length and width
- True
- 7
- False
- True
- lines all one way
- on the left side
- eyes
- where the lines cross
- highlight
- soft, dark marks
- sphere
- a shape
- a hue, like red or blue
- the area around objects
- how light or dark it is
- colour
- False
- looks furry or scaly
- False
- dots packed close
- dark value
- the darker half of it
- True
- False
- False
- 6B
- poster colour
- blending
- medium marks
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