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WorksheetsDiscovering Drawing Questions
Total questions: 64
Worksheet time: 32mins
A suggested line - not one actually drawn is called what?
negative space
implied line
contour line
Trompe l'oeil
The area around your subject, or figure is called the ?
Positive Space
Negative Space
Sighting
Subject Matter
This is the technique of connecting the dark area in a drawing into larger value shaped areas. (putting them together)
Balance
Collage
Intention
Massing
The area of a picture that appears to be closest to the viewer is called what?
space
perspective
foreground
background
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.
environmental art
converging lines
cityscape
built environment
This is a quick sketch made from a live model; also a drawing of a figure (person) used for fashion sketches.
Cartoon
Croquis
Canon
Pentimento
Repetition
A ______________________ is a picture that features a person or group of people
Frontal Portrait
Portrait
Three-quarter portrait
Reportage
Figure
This is the area that reflects the most light.
Visual texture
Lowlight
Highlight
Form
Sketch
A small quick drawing that records ideas and information for a final work of art.
Form
Stroke
Thumbnail Sketch
Symbol
This is a heavy line that gives weight, structure, and strength to a drawing.
Highlight
Lowlight
Stroke
Visual Texture
Symbol
This is the word for a design that appears three-dimensional, and encloses a volume such as a cube, cone, or sphere.
Symbol
Form
Shape
Color
Symbol
To give human traits to animals or inanimate objects is called?
Visual Texture
Illustrate
Zoologic
Anthropomorphize
Theomorphic
To simulate texture that creates the illusion of actual texture.
Illustrator
Visual Texture
Form
Shade
Value tones
An artist who creates images to clarify texts or concepts, such as those in books, or advertisements is know as what?
Fashion Designer
Illustrator
Architect
Painter
Photographer
An image that stands for something more than it's literal meaning.
Anthropomorphize
Symbol
Visual Texture
Thumbnail Sketch
Actual Texture
The model for a portrait is called a _________________.
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Frontal Portrait
Profile Portrait
Sitter
Camera Obscura
One of the three basic portrait poses,____________________ is when the model looks straight at the viewer
Camera Obscura
Contrast
Frontal Portrait
Portrait
Profile Portrait
A _______________________ is a small darkened room with a tiny window on one side.
Camera Obscura
Reportage
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Sitter
Drawing with red, black, and white to show warmer and cooler tones is called _________________________, from the French meaning "three pencils"
Contrast
Reportage
Hatching
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Profile Portrait
When the subject is facing to the side with only one eye and half of the mouth and nose visible, this is called a ___________________________.
Profile Portrait
Hatching
Reportage
Three-quarter portrait
Shading using closely spaced, parallel lines to suggest light and shadow is called _________________________.
Shading
Reportage
Contrast
Hatching
This is a drawing from direct observation.
Reportage
Portrait
Contrast
Hatching
A principle of design that refers to differences between elements such as color, texture, value, and shapes is called ________________________.
Unity
Contrast
Hatching
Rhythm
A ___________________________ is when the subject is facing slightly away from the viewer, but both eyes are still visible.
Frontal Portrait
Profile Portrait
Three-quarter portrait
Sitter
The human form or any recognizable object or nonrepresentational shape is called what?
Canon
Figure
Cartoon
Mannequin
What are the trace marks and images called that are left behind when you revise a work of art?
Croquis
Mannequin
Pentimento
Canon
Movement
"The study of Humanity"
Classical
Humanism
Pentimento
Figure
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?
Classical
Cartoon
Humanism
Renaissance
This is a model with moveable joints that can be posed.
Figure
Movement
Mannequin
Canon
Cartoon
The use of the same visual element over and over again in a work of art.
Repetition
Unity
Movement
Value
This is the "rules" that a culture uses for the proportions and structure of a figure considered to be "ideal".
Canon
Classical
Repetition
Figure
A principle of design associated with rhythm, referring to the arrangements of part in an artwork to create a sense of motion.
Repetition
Unity
Movement
Variety
This is a full-sized preliminary drawing from a which a painting or mural is made.
Canon
Pentimento
Cartoon
Movement
A drawing or an existing structure of site that is to scale.
Cityscape
Frame
Measured Drawing
Environmental Art
A view seen from a high vantage point.
Worm's-eye view
Bird's-eye view
Frame
Horizon Line
A way to show three-dimensional objects on a two dimensional surface, using vanishing points and two sets of converging lines.
Two-Point Perspective
Frame
Converging Lines
Measured Drawing
A work of art that shows views of city streets, plazas, courtyards, buildings, and activities that place in that urban space.
Landscape
Cityscape
Built Environment
Bird's-eye view
A period in Western history (c. 1400-1600) marking a "rebirth" of cultural awareness and learning.
Baroque
Ancient Greek art
Renaissance
Middle Ages
In perspective drawing, a point on the eye-level line or horizon line, toward which parallel lines are made to recede and meet.
Horizon Line
Vanishing Point
Sight lines
Object Lines
Lines drawn along parallel lines receding to a vanishing point to show linear perspective, also called orthogonal lines.
Sight lines
Horizon line
Perspective line
Object lines
In linear perspective, lines that represent the parallel edge of an object.
Horizon line
Converging lines
Sight lines
Vanishing point
The human made landscape, includes everything from city plans to buildings and furniture to consumer products.
One-point perspective
Built environment
Cityscape
Landscape
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.
one-point perspective
two-point perspective
three-point perspective
measured drawing
In an unobstructed view, the distant place where the sky and land seem to meet.
sight line
linear perspective
horizon line
vanishing point
A way to show three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface, using one vanishing point.
one-point perspective
two-point perspective
three-point perspective
measured drawing
Technique of creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface.
cityscape
vanishing point
linear perspective
Line Art Drawing
What is the intermediate zone of space between the foreground and background?
foreground
middle-ground
background
horizon
Which element of art indicates areas between, around, above, below, or within something?
Lines
Shapes
Spaces
Textures
What is the area of a picture that appears farthest away in a three-dimensional illusion?
foreground
middle-ground
background
horizon
What refers to any culture which is not related to the United States, Canada, or to Western Europe
Western
Non-Western
Fixed
Northern
The diminishing of color intensity to lighter and duller hues to give the illusion of distance is called what?
aerial perspective
overlapping
space
foreground
A stationary position from which a composition is created to show perspective is called what?
foreground
perspective
fixed point of view
One point perspective
What do you call a horizontal line that is even with the viewer's eye?
overlapping
eye level
space
perspective
A technique used to create the illusion of depth by placing one object in front of another is called...?
perspective
space
overlapping
foreground
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?
background
space
perspective
overlapping
An arrangement of non-moving objects that are subject matter for a work of art are called?
Balance
Collage
Still life
Tromp l'oeil
A suggested line--- one that was not actually drawn---
Contour line
Implied line
positive shape or space
negative shape or space
Also called the figure, the area containing the primary subject in a composition.
positive space or shape
negative space or shape
A line drawing that defines the outer and inner shapes of objects or forms.
Contour lines
Implied lines
causal perspective
formalism
A shapes that are irregular.
geometric shape
Free form shapes
sighting
formalism
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.
framing
contour line
sighting
picture plane
The act of drawing what you see, rather than from memory.
observational drawing
framing
gesture drawing
Perspective drawing
The area of the artwork towards which the eye is directed; the visual focal point of the work.
framing
center of interest
formalism
picture plane
Artworks that have no recognizable subject matter.
picture plane
sighting
nonobjective art
Objective art
