Drawing · Unit 1 · Paper 1

Sustained Investigation unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 49 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted

How many process images to include

Pastel: soft, hard and oil

Scope of an inquiry

Process images in drawing

Sequencing the fifteen images

Evidence of experimentation

Generative AI in the portfolio

Surface as a variable

Substantial transformation, defined

Working large with the whole arm

Toned ground and the middle value

Photographing graphite

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Charcoal: vine, compressed, pencil

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Drawing from observation vs from photograph

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Writing about a decision, not a feeling

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Revising the inquiry mid-portfolio

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

Write the Sustained Investigation reflection on practice, experimentation, and revision for a Drawing portfolio (about 1,200 characters in the real submission). Your response should (a) restate the guiding question in one clause; (b) describe one deliberate experiment, naming the variable changed and what was held constant; (c) describe one revision, giving the observed problem, the specific change, and the resulting effect; (d) explain how your materials and processes carry the idea rather than merely depicting a subject, using accurate drawing vocabulary; and (e) identify what your next drawing would test and why.