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Erasers are useful tools when drawing.

Drawing

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Middle school children should, by now, be becoming more proficient in their control of media. Their drawing ability, both from observation and imagination, should draw on skills they have attained in previous years.

1 .
Why is an eraser useful to an artist when drawing?
To save using more than one piece of paper
To correct mistakes and create lighter areas
To look professional
To keep pencils straight
Erasers can remove unwanted lines, lighten tones, and clean up stray marks. Some erasers are very soft and are useful for cleaning up an image
2 .
What is the name for a quick, unrefined drawing?
A skit
A scratch
A screech
A sketch
An artist may make many sketches to work out finer details for a project
3 .
Many fields outside of art, such as science or technology, also produce drawings. These may be referred to as what?
Technical drawings
Line drawings
Telling drawings
Confident drawings
Plans of buildings, machinery, circuitry and other things are often called "drawings" even when they have been transferred to another medium by printing
4 .
Which of the following is not a dry drawing medium?
Charcoal
Markers
Pencils
Pastels
Markers are wet drawing media. So are pens and inks
5 .
Why is shading important in a drawing?
To bring realism to the drawing
To keep the drawing out of the sun
To add an element of fun
To use new techniques
Careful shading produces an impression of reflected light, shadows and highlights and can result in a very realistic image
6 .
Which of the following is not a pencil grade?
1H
4B
3H
HB
H is the beginning of the 'hard' scale, there is no 1H
7 .
What are hatching and cross-hatching?
Ways of drawing onto wood
Religious diagrams
Drawings of baby chicks
Groups of parallel lines in differing directions
Pen and ink drawings often use hatching. Cross-hatching uses hatching in two or more different directions to create a darker tone
8 .
Why might an artist use masking fluid in a drawing?
To hide the finished drawing from rivals
To make a work look more mysterious
To add extra details
To keep one area of the drawing clean
Sometimes the artist leaves a section of the image untouched while filling in the remainder. The shape of the area to preserve can be painted with masking fluid, protecting it until the artist has finished
9 .
Before paper was widely available, what other medium may have been used for drawing?
Leather
Parchment
Cotton
Leaves
12th century monks in European monasteries used intricate drawings to prepare illustrated, illuminated manuscripts on parchment
10 .
30,000 year old cave drawings done by early man depict simple objects and concepts. What are they known as?
Cartoons
Sketches
Charts
Pictograms
Early drawings were used to communicate before written language existed. The drawings gradually became more sophisticated. leading to the development of written language
Author:  Angela Smith

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