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A drawing of a person is called a portrait.

Drawing Skills

Drawing is a skill you can build. Practise making lines and shapes, add details, and learn how to show things you see, like faces, animals, and simple objects.

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Fascinating Fact

Practising often helps your drawing improve. Each time you draw, you learn a little more control.

Drawing skills help you show ideas using lines, shapes, and patterns. You can learn to press lightly or firmly, plan where things go, and look carefully at what you are drawing.

Key Terms

Line: A mark that can be straight, curved, thick, or thin.
Shape: The outline of something, like a circle, square, or triangle.
Detail: Small parts you add to make a drawing clearer, like stripes, spots, or buttons.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What are drawing skills in KS1?

Drawing skills in KS1 are the ways you use lines, shapes, and simple shading to make pictures, such as drawing carefully, adding details, and showing what you can see or imagine.

How can I make my drawing better?

You can make your drawing better by practising often, looking closely at the object you are drawing, starting with simple shapes, and adding details slowly.

Why is it helpful to start a drawing with simple shapes?

Starting with simple shapes helps you plan where the parts should go, so your drawing looks more balanced and it is easier to add details afterwards.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .

A drawing of a person as the subject is known as what?

A photograph

A person

A portrait

A picture

Portraits can be just the head and shoulders or the full body of the subject

2 .

Apart from pencils, what else can be used to draw with?

Crayons, pastels, ink, charcoal or chalk

String, sellotape and glue

Paper, foil, tissue and newspaper

Flour, salt, pepper and sugar

Any medium which makes a mark on a surface could be used for drawing

3 .

When artists draw things they can see in front of them, what is it called?

Observational drawing

Eyesight drawing

Seen sketching

Watched drawing

An observational drawing is usually realistic

4 .

Colouring an area using the side of the pencil point is known as what?

Scribbling

Scrawling

Shading

Pressing

Using lighter and darker shading can make a drawn item look 3D

5 .

A light outline of an item is often called what?

A ghost

A trace

A shadow

A sketch

Sketching lightly at first helps an artist decide on whether the drawing looks right or not

6 .

Some artists make lighter areas in their drawings by doing what?

Painting over parts with white paint

Rubbing some parts out with a rubber

Sticking white paper down over the drawing

Using correction fluid to alter mistakes

Rubbers can be used to create highlights and light spots

7 .

A technique using lines to create shading is known as what?

Line drawing

Cross-hatching

Shading

Sketching

Cross-hatching can be built up gradually to make the shading darker

8 .

Pencil shading can be made to look like shadows by doing what?

Smudging

Painting

Outlines

Line drawing

You can smudge pencil with your finger or a cotton bud

9 .

In art, what is composition?

Writing a letter to an artist

Deciding where the items in a drawing should go

Making up a tune to go with the drawing

Putting apple cores and potato peelings in a heap

Sometimes artists rearrange the elements of a drawing to give a better composition

10 .

Drawing pencils can be what?

Hard or soft

High or low

Shallow or deep

Tall or short

Hard pencils are labelled 'H' for hard and softer ones are labelled 'B' for black

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize – Art and Design

Author: Angela Smith (Primary School Teacher & KS1 Quiz Writer)

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