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Discovering Drawing Questions

Total questions: 64

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A suggested line - not one actually drawn is called what?

a)

negative space

b)

implied line

c)

contour line

d)

Trompe l'oeil

2.

The area around your subject, or figure is called the ?

a)

Positive Space

b)

Negative Space

c)

Sighting

d)

Subject Matter

3.

This is the technique of connecting the dark area in a drawing into larger value shaped areas. (putting them together)

a)

Balance

b)

Collage

c)

Intention

d)

Massing

4.

The area of a picture that appears to be closest to the viewer is called what?

a)

space

b)

perspective

c)

foreground

d)

background

5.

An artwork that is part of the setting/space surrounding it, or which provides an enclosed space that viewers can enter; or an arrangement that the viewer can walk around or through. 

a)

environmental art

b)

converging lines

c)

cityscape

d)

built environment

6.

This is a quick sketch made from a live model; also a drawing of a figure (person) used for fashion sketches.

a)

Cartoon

b)

Croquis

c)

Canon

d)

Pentimento

e)

Repetition

7.

A ______________________ is a picture that features a person or group of people

a)

Frontal Portrait

b)

Portrait

c)

Three-quarter portrait

d)

Reportage

e)

Figure

8.

This is the area that reflects the most light. 

a)

Visual texture

b)

Lowlight

c)

Highlight

d)

Form

e)

Sketch

9.

A small quick drawing that records ideas and information for a final work of art. 

a)

Form

b)

Stroke

c)

Thumbnail Sketch

d)

Symbol

10.

This is a heavy line that gives weight, structure, and strength to a drawing. 

a)

Highlight

b)

Lowlight

c)

Stroke

d)

Visual Texture

e)

Symbol

11.

This is the word for a design that appears three-dimensional, and encloses a volume such as a cube, cone, or sphere. 

a)

Symbol

b)

Form

c)

Shape

d)

Color

e)

Symbol

12.

To give human traits to animals or inanimate objects is called?

a)

Visual Texture

b)

Illustrate

c)

Zoologic

d)

Anthropomorphize

e)

Theomorphic

13.

To simulate texture that creates the illusion of actual texture. 

a)

Illustrator

b)

Visual Texture

c)

Form

d)

Shade

e)

Value tones

14.

An artist who creates images to clarify texts or concepts, such as those in books, or advertisements is know as what?

a)

Fashion Designer

b)

Illustrator

c)

Architect

d)

Painter

e)

Photographer

15.

An image that stands for something more than it's literal meaning.

a)

Anthropomorphize

b)

Symbol

c)

Visual Texture

d)

Thumbnail Sketch

e)

Actual Texture

16.

The model for a portrait is called a _________________.

a)

trois crayons

b)

Frontal Portrait

c)

Profile Portrait

d)

Sitter

e)

Camera Obscura

17.

One of the three basic portrait poses,____________________ is when the model looks straight at the viewer

a)

Camera Obscura

b)

Contrast

c)

Frontal Portrait

d)

Portrait

e)

Profile Portrait

18.

A _______________________ is a small darkened room with a tiny window on one side. 

a)

Camera Obscura

b)

Reportage

c)

trois crayons

d)

Sitter

19.

Drawing with red, black, and white to show warmer and cooler tones is called _________________________, from the French meaning "three pencils"

a)

Contrast

b)

Reportage

c)

Hatching

d)

trois crayons

e)

Profile Portrait

20.

When the subject is facing to the side with only one eye and half of the mouth and nose visible, this is called a ___________________________. 

a)

Profile Portrait

b)

Hatching

c)

Reportage

d)

Three-quarter portrait

21.

Shading using closely spaced, parallel lines to suggest light and shadow is called _________________________.

a)

Shading

b)

Reportage

c)

Contrast

d)

Hatching

22.

This is a drawing from direct observation. 

a)

Reportage

b)

Portrait

c)

Contrast

d)

Hatching

23.

A principle of design that refers to differences between elements such as color, texture, value, and shapes is called ________________________.

a)

Unity

b)

Contrast

c)

Hatching

d)

Rhythm

24.

A ___________________________ is when the subject is facing slightly away from the viewer, but both eyes are still visible. 

a)

Frontal Portrait

b)

Profile Portrait

c)

Three-quarter portrait

d)

Sitter

25.

The human form or any recognizable object or nonrepresentational shape is called what? 

a)

Canon

b)

Figure

c)

Cartoon

d)

Mannequin

26.

What are the trace marks and images called that are left behind when you revise a work of art?

a)

Croquis

b)

Mannequin

c)

Pentimento

d)

Canon

e)

Movement

27.

"The study of Humanity"

a)

Classical

b)

Humanism

c)

Pentimento

d)

Figure

28.

The art of ancient Greece produced in the 400s and 300s BCE; any art form influenced by ancient Greek or Roman examples is known as what?

a)

Classical

b)

Cartoon

c)

Humanism

d)

Renaissance

29.

This is a model with moveable joints that can be posed.

a)

Figure

b)

Movement

c)

Mannequin

d)

Canon

e)

Cartoon

30.

The use of the same visual element over and over again in a work of art. 

a)

Repetition

b)

Unity

c)

Movement

d)

Value

31.

This is the "rules" that a culture uses for the proportions and structure of a figure considered to be "ideal". 

a)

Canon

b)

Classical

c)

Repetition

d)

Figure

32.

A principle of design associated with rhythm, referring to the arrangements of part in an artwork to create a sense of motion.

a)

Repetition

b)

Unity

c)

Movement

d)

Variety

33.

This is a full-sized preliminary drawing from a which a painting or mural is made. 

a)

Canon

b)

Pentimento

c)

Cartoon

d)

Movement

34.

A drawing or an existing structure of site that is to scale.

a)

Cityscape

b)

Frame

c)

Measured Drawing

d)

Environmental Art

35.

A view seen from a high vantage point.

a)

Worm's-eye view

b)

Bird's-eye view

c)

Frame

d)

Horizon Line

36.

A way to show three-dimensional objects on a two dimensional surface, using vanishing points and two sets of converging lines.

a)

Two-Point Perspective

b)

Frame

c)

Converging Lines

d)

Measured Drawing

37.

A work of art that shows views of city streets, plazas, courtyards, buildings, and activities that place in that urban space. 

a)

Landscape

b)

Cityscape

c)

Built Environment

d)

Bird's-eye view

38.

A period in Western history (c. 1400-1600) marking a "rebirth" of cultural awareness and learning. 

a)

Baroque

b)

Ancient Greek art

c)

Renaissance

d)

Middle Ages

39.

In perspective drawing, a point on the eye-level line or horizon line, toward which parallel lines are made to recede and meet. 

a)

Horizon Line

b)

Vanishing Point

c)

Sight lines

d)

Object Lines

40.

Lines drawn along parallel lines receding to a vanishing point to show linear perspective, also called orthogonal lines. 

a)

Sight lines

b)

Horizon line

c)

Perspective line

d)

Object lines

41.

In linear perspective, lines that represent the parallel edge of an object. 

a)

Horizon line

b)

Converging lines

c)

Sight lines

d)

Vanishing point

42.

The human made landscape, includes everything from city plans to buildings and furniture to consumer products.

a)

One-point perspective

b)

Built environment

c)

Cityscape

d)

Landscape

43.

A way to show three-dimensional objects receding above or below eye level on a two-dimensional surface, using three vanishing points and three sets of converging lines to represent forms. 

a)

one-point perspective

b)

two-point perspective

c)

three-point perspective

d)

measured drawing

44.

In an unobstructed view, the distant place where the sky and land seem to meet.

a)

sight line

b)

linear perspective

c)

horizon line

d)

vanishing point

45.

A way to show three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface, using one vanishing point.

a)

one-point perspective

b)

two-point perspective

c)

three-point perspective

d)

measured drawing

46.

Technique of creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface. 

a)

cityscape

b)

vanishing point

c)

linear perspective

d)

Line Art Drawing

47.

What is the intermediate zone of space between the foreground and background?

a)

foreground

b)

middle-ground

c)

background

d)

horizon

48.

Which element of art indicates areas between, around, above, below, or within something?

a)

Lines

b)

Shapes

c)

Spaces

d)

Textures

49.

What is the area of a picture that appears farthest away in a three-dimensional illusion?

a)

foreground

b)

middle-ground

c)

background

d)

horizon

50.

What refers to any culture which is not related to the United States, Canada, or to Western Europe

a)

Western

b)

Non-Western

c)

Fixed

d)

Northern

51.

The diminishing of color intensity to lighter and duller hues to give the illusion of distance is called what?

a)

aerial perspective

b)

overlapping

c)

space

d)

foreground

52.

A stationary position from which a composition is created to show perspective is called what? 

a)

foreground

b)

perspective

c)

fixed point of view

d)

One point perspective

53.

What do you call a horizontal line that is even with the viewer's eye?

a)

overlapping

b)

eye level

c)

space

d)

perspective

54.

A technique used to create the illusion of depth by placing one object in front of another is called...?

a)

perspective

b)

space

c)

overlapping

d)

foreground

55.

The representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface to produce the same impression of distance and relative size as that received by the human eye is what?

a)

background

b)

space

c)

perspective

d)

overlapping

56.

An arrangement of non-moving objects that are subject matter for a work of art are called?

a)

Balance

b)

Collage

c)

Still life

d)

Tromp l'oeil

57.

A suggested line--- one that was not actually drawn---

a)

Contour line

b)

Implied line

c)

positive shape or space

d)

negative shape or space

58.

Also called the figure, the area containing the primary subject in a composition.

a)

positive space or shape

b)

negative space or shape

59.

A line drawing that defines the outer and inner shapes of objects or forms.

a)

Contour lines

b)

Implied lines

c)

causal perspective

d)

formalism

60.

A shapes that are irregular.

a)

geometric shape

b)

Free form shapes

c)

sighting

d)

formalism

61.

The act of taking an object's measure by sight to determine it's size in a drawing using your pencil as a measuring tool.

a)

framing

b)

contour line

c)

sighting

d)

picture plane

62.

The act of drawing what you see, rather than from memory.

a)

observational drawing

b)

framing

c)

gesture drawing

d)

Perspective drawing

63.

The area of the artwork towards which the eye is directed; the visual focal point of the work.

a)

framing

b)

center of interest

c)

formalism

d)

picture plane

64.

Artworks that have no recognizable subject matter.

a)

picture plane

b)

sighting

c)

nonobjective art

d)

Objective art