KS1 Art | Drawing Skills and Techniques

Art and Design Quiz - Drawing Skills (Questions)

This quiz addresses the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 in Art and Design for children aged 5, 6 and 7 in years 1 and 2. Specifically this quiz is aimed at the section dealing with understanding processes and techniques, and it focusses on drawing skills.

Children will learn and then practise a variety of techniques as they progress through KS1. Perhaps the simplest of these techniques is drawing. They will learn how to improve their skills and draw more accurately. They will also be taught how to draw in different ways to give different results.

Drawing pencils can be what?

[ ]	Hard or soft
[ ]	High or low
[ ]	Shallow or deep
[ ]	Tall or short

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

[ ]	Scribbling
[ ]	Scrawling
[ ]	Shading
[ ]	Pressing

A light outline of an item is often called what?

[ ]	A ghost
[ ]	A trace
[ ]	A shadow
[ ]	A sketch

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

[ ]	Line drawing
[ ]	Cross-hatching
[ ]	Shading
[ ]	Sketching

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

[ ]	Smudging
[ ]	Painting
[ ]	Outlines
[ ]	Line drawing

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

[ ]	A photograph
[ ]	A person
[ ]	A portrait
[ ]	A picture

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

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

[ ]	Observational drawing
[ ]	Eyesight drawing
[ ]	Seen sketching
[ ]	Watched drawing

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

10.

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

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Art and Design Quiz - Drawing Skills (Answers)

Drawing pencils can be what?

[x]	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

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

[ ]	Scribbling
[ ]	Scrawling
[x]	Shading
[ ]	Pressing

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

A light outline of an item is often called what?

[ ]	A ghost
[ ]	A trace
[ ]	A shadow
[x]	A sketch

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

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

[ ]	Line drawing
[x]	Cross-hatching
[ ]	Shading
[ ]	Sketching

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

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

[x]	Smudging
[ ]	Painting
[ ]	Outlines
[ ]	Line drawing

You can smudge pencil with your finger or a cotton bud

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

[ ]	A photograph
[ ]	A person
[x]	A portrait
[ ]	A picture

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

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

[ ]	Painting over parts with white paint
[x]	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

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

[x]	Observational drawing
[ ]	Eyesight drawing
[ ]	Seen sketching
[ ]	Watched drawing

An observational drawing is usually realistic

In art, what is composition?

[ ]	Writing a letter to an artist
[x]	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.

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

[x]	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