Selected Works 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.
Sighting and measuring
Blind and modified contour
Negative space
Ellipses
Line weight and its uses
Core shadow, cast shadow, reflected light
One-, two- and three-point perspective
Hatching and cross-hatching
Five works, any origin
Color-correcting a photograph of a drawing
Edges: hard, soft, lost and found
Proportion by comparative measurement
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Value and tonal range
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Foreshortening from observation
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Image resolution and file requirements
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Photographing before framing
3 ptsFree response
7 ptsA Drawing student must choose five Selected Works from a year of production. Among the candidates are: a highly finished graphite portrait; a large charcoal drawing that is technically rougher but pursues a clear idea about erasure; a small ink study that is the most inventive thing the student made; a colored-pencil piece that closely follows a photograph found online; and a mixed-media drawing whose effect depends on a slight surface relief.
Explain the criterion on which Selected Works are scored.
Identify which candidate raises an immediate eligibility problem and explain what the student must do about it.
Explain the tradeoff between the graphite portrait and the charcoal drawing in terms of the scoring criterion.
Explain the specific documentation risk the mixed-media drawing carries.
Explain how the small ink study should be judged despite its size.
Explain why the five should not simply be the five that took longest.
State what advice you would give the student, and justify it.