27 questions
What is a portrait?
An artwork that shows animals.
An artwork that shows land.
An artwork that shows buildings.
An artwork that represents or depicts a person, with strong emphasis on the face or head and shoulders.
When creating a realistic portrait, it is important to remember humans have hard, bold outlines like a cartoon.
True
False
When drawing a portrait, it is important to fill almost every space with value, and leave almost nothing white.
True
False
To draw accurate proportions, where do the eyes go on a human face?
About 1/4 of the way down
Right in the middle
About 3/4 down from the top
To draw accurate proportions, where does the hairline go on a human head?
About 1/4 down from the top
In the middle
About 3/4 down from the top
The distance between the two eyes should be about the length of one eye.
True
False
To draw accurate proportions, where does the bottom of the nose go on a human face?
About 1/4 of the way down
In the middle
About 3/4 of the way down
To draw accurate proportions, where do the ears go on a human head?
On the side of the head, above the eyes
On the side of the head, between the middle of the eyes and the bottom of the nose
On the side of the head, below the nose
To draw accurate human proportions, how wide should the neck be?
The width of the mouth
Roughly the width of the head
Wider than the head
To draw hair, it is important to draw every individual strand of hair.
True
False, It is mostly shading, with some strands drawn in.
Style of portrait that offers an honest, realistic depiction of a person.
Symbolic
Naturalistic
Stylized
Radical
The lightness or darkness of a particular color.
Hue
Portrait
Contrast
Value
A caricature would be an example of this type of portrait.
Stylized
Realism
Hyper-realism
Symbolic
Small rolled up pieces of paper that are used to smooth pencil strokes.
Crayons
Markers
Blending stumps
Compass
A picture of a person, usually from the shoulders up.
Landscape
Seascape
Portrait
Cityscape
Many years ago, who would likely have been able to hire an artist for a portrait?
Anyone
Poor people
The wealthy and powerful
Nobody
Having a variety of shades. From the darkest dark to the lightest light. This word means "differences".
Value
Texture
Pattern
Contrast
The creative, spatial, art side of the brain.
Left
Right
The analytical, mathematical, verbal side of the brain.
Left
Right
A drawing from life, where you are actually looking at what you are drawing.
Observation drawing
Graphic design
Photography
Sculpture
Recreating and enlarging a picture by matching lines, values, shapes, and colors in a square that is larger.
Life drawing
Photography
The grid method of drawing
Observation drawing
When creating a realistic portrait, it is important to remember humans have hard, bold outlines like a cartoon.
True
False
When drawing a portrait, you should ___________
Work from memory
Look at a reference photo
To draw accurate proportions, where do the eyes go on a human face?
About 1/4 of the way down
Right in the middle
About 3/4 down from the top
What style of portrait is this?
Naturalistic
Stylized
Symbolic
Ideal