Drawing and observational studies quiz: Singapore N(A)-Level Art (6127) quiz

Drawing from memory or imagination

Copying a photograph exactly

Drawing directly from what you see in front of you

Tracing an outline

To draw what you really see rather than the symbol you assume, keeping proportions accurate

To make the drawing faster

To avoid using a pencil

Because measuring replaces looking

Add the darkest shadows

Outline every small detail in heavy pencil

Sign your name

Block in the overall shape with light construction lines

Ink

Charcoal

Fine-liner pen

Hard pencil

Grading a drawing for marks

Marking the paper with measurements only

The varied marks and textures a medium can make, chosen to suit a subject

Signing the work

The darkest band on the object where its surface turns away from the light

The brightest spot on an object

The shadow thrown onto the table

The mid-tone on the lit side

The shadow on the object itself

The brightest highlight

The outline of the object

The shadow the object throws onto the surface beside it

Outline is always wrong

Tone shows how light falls across a form, so the surface appears to curve and turn in space

Tone is just decoration

Outline takes longer to draw

The bottom edge of the paper

The brightest light source

A line at your eye level where vanishing points sit

The edge of the nearest object

One

None

Two

Four

Looking straight down a corridor

Drawing a perfectly flat pattern

Drawing a single dot

Drawing the corner of a building where two sets of edges recede

They use less paper

Frequent practice builds the looking-and-measuring habit and fills a sketchbook with evidence of observation

They avoid the need for accuracy

They are graded automatically

Paper 1 Section A (Visual Analysis) only

Neither paper

Paper 1 Section B (Exploratory Sketching) and the Paper 2 Portfolio

Only a written essay