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.🔵 Shading a circle from light to dark makes it look like a… (a) sphere (b) cube (c) square (d) cone
- 2.🧱 How many elements of art are there in the usual list (line, shape, form, colour, texture, space, value)?
- 3.Which pencil grade makes hard, light marks? (a) 6B (b) 2B (c) 4B (d) H
- 4.Which of these is called hatching? (a) criss-cross lines (b) lines all one way (c) dots packed close (d) smooth, soft tones
- 5.🧰 Which art tool do we use for fine lines and details? (a) sponge (b) masking tape (c) round brush (d) flat brush
- 6.What do we use an easel for? (a) wide, straight strokes (b) holding paper flat (c) giving a pencil a point (d) holding a board upright
- 7.True or false: in a landscape picture, the part nearest you is the middle ground. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which of these is the element called colour? (a) a sense of near and far (b) has height, width, depth (c) rough, smooth or bumpy (d) a hue, like red or blue
- 9.✏️ What kind of marks does the pencil grade 4H make? (a) medium marks (b) hard, light marks (c) soft, dark marks
- 10.🍃 Is a paint splash a geometric shape or an organic shape? (a) organic shape (b) geometric shape
- 11.✏️ Which shading method uses lots of tiny dots? (a) hatching (b) blending (c) stippling (d) cross-hatching
- 12.⬜⬛ Does light grey have a light value or a dark value? (a) light value (b) dark value
- 13.True or false: on a shaded ball, the dark shape it throws is called the cast shadow. (a) False (b) True
- 14.📏 Draw a table top with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) vertical (b) diagonal (c) horizontal
- 15.🖼️ The rule of thirds splits a page into how many equal boxes?
- 16.True or false: a cuboid is a flat 2D shape. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🎭 Which lines usually make a picture feel “soft and gentle”? (a) vertical lines (b) diagonal lines (c) curved lines (d) zigzag lines
- 18.True or false: a playground slide is a diagonal line. (a) True (b) False
- 19.🧰 Which art tool do we use for giving a pencil a point? (a) water pot (b) sharpener (c) round brush (d) masking tape
- 20.Which of these is called blending? (a) many parallel lines (b) lines crossing over (c) smooth, soft tones (d) criss-cross lines
- 21.🧱 Which element of art is “from white to black”? (a) value (b) shape (c) form (d) space
- 22.True or false: “do not smudge easily” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) False (b) True
- 23.True or false: “hard, waxy sticks” is a feature of oil pastels. (a) False (b) True
- 24.True or false: on a shaded ball, the brightest spot is called the shadow side. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🖌️ Is letting paint dry on it good brush care or bad for the brush? (a) bad for the brush (b) good brush care
- 26.🧱 Drawing fur so it looks soft uses which element of art? (a) line (b) texture (c) space (d) value
- 27.True or false: “see-through colour” is a feature of a pencil. (a) False (b) True
- 28.✏️ Which shading method uses lines all one way? (a) cross-hatching (b) blending (c) stippling (d) hatching
- 29.📏 Draw a playground slide with one line. Is the line horizontal, vertical or diagonal? (a) diagonal (b) horizontal (c) vertical
- 30.True or false: pencil grade 6B makes soft, dark marks. (a) False (b) True
- 31.Which of these is called stippling? (a) many parallel lines (b) criss-cross lines (c) lines all one way (d) lots of tiny dots
- 32.✏️ With one pencil, how do you make your shading darker? (a) use an eraser (b) press harder (c) press lighter (d) add water
- 33.🧱 Which element of art is “a moving dot’s path”? (a) space (b) texture (c) line (d) form
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sits lower on the page (b) overlaps other things (c) shows more detail (d) looks smaller
- 35.🧊 How many corners does a cube have?
- 36.True or false: a jalebi looks like a spiral line. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: “looks furry or scaly” is the element called texture. (a) True (b) False
- 38.Which of these is shaped like a cuboid? (a) a sugar cube (b) a water pipe (c) an ice-cream cone (d) a shoe box
- 39.🎯 The part of a picture your eye goes to first is the… (a) background (b) focal point (c) border (d) horizon
- 40.True or false: a person standing tall is a vertical line. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- sphere
- 7
- H
- lines all one way
- round brush
- holding a board upright
- False
- a hue, like red or blue
- hard, light marks
- organic shape
- stippling
- light value
- True
- horizontal
- 9
- False
- curved lines
- True
- sharpener
- smooth, soft tones
- value
- False
- False
- False
- bad for the brush
- texture
- False
- hatching
- diagonal
- True
- lots of tiny dots
- press harder
- line
- looks smaller
- 8
- True
- True
- a shoe box
- focal point
- True
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