Drawing Shading and Blending Quiz

Choose all of the words that describe neat line work?

• DARK

• UNBROKEN

• SMOOTH

• LIGHT

Choose all of the ways to shade a darker tone/shade.

• Apply a little more pressure to your pencil

• Press on hard with your pencil

• Use a darker pencil

• Shade more layers using multi-directional shading

Choose all of the ways to shade a lighter tone/shade.

• Use a lighter pencil

• Apply less pressure to your pencil

• Only shade in one direction

• Shade fewer layers using multi-directional shading

Choose everything you should do to blend from a dark to a light tone/shade gradually and smoothly using a pencil.

• Shade less layers for lighter tones

• Shade small shading marks close together

• Slowly and gradually take the pressure off your pencil

• Layer multi-directional shading

• Shade more layers for darker tones

Choose all of the ways to shade smooth flat areas of colour.

• Shade lightly

• Shade in one direction

• Layer multi-directional shading

• Shade small shading marks close together

What is multi-directional shading?

• Adding pressure to your pencil to shade in lots of directions

• Shading in four directions

• Shading in one direction

• Layers of shading in lots of different directions

What should you never do when shading and blending smooth areas?

You can choose multiple answers.

• Shade in lots of different directions

• Smudge with your finger

• Shade too lightly

• Press on hard

• Leave gaps between shading marks