2 January 2021

Part B Design Practice Questions 3 (2021 update)

At the end of this post, after the below set of questions, I’ve given my tips that can help you improve in a very short time and also help you fetch you good marks from exam point of time. Make use of the tips.


Practice Questions:

  • Draw the view of an examiner invigilating the hall during CEED exam. Some students are attempting on desktop while some are sketching on papers. No need to draw the students with details

  • Draw the scene of untidy room, half moped, with wet and water on floor, mop and brrom then on floor, dustbin wide open and flies flying around it and TV on with some program running and it's music on in the room. The room has a diwan, two wooden chairs and a hanger in which means cloth was seen hanging

  • You are seated with folded legs in your home bed room on top or the bed. You mom had just placed a hot coffee on the table adjacent to the bed. Ou has just removed the over the ear headphones on you and placed next to the laptop along with your mobile phone. Draw the view (as seen by tour eyes) representing this situation.

  • It is Diwali and you have just prepared your favourite sweet. Draw a utensil with your favourite sweet served hot. Next to the sweet utensil, a tray full of dry fruits is seen. Show as much details as possible including the shadows.

  • Draw a simple human face (you can draw yours too) depicting the following emotions
  1. Happy and excited
  2. Disgusted or embarrassed
  3. Angry
  4. Fearful
  5. Sad
  6. Simply at peace
  7. Additional (if you have time) - horrified, tensed/worried, determined, emotionless,

  • Draw the scene of a kid playing with clay - making some creative prototype. Show the kid’s sate of determination.

  • A cat entered into you kitchen in a stealth mode from the side windows and started licking the milk available in the milk vessel after it removed the top plate. You heard the metal noises and so came to inspect the kitchen only to see the cat enjoying the milk. The cat created a mess by throwing away the plate and also by spilling milk while it was busy licking the milk. Draw the scene as viewed by you when you had just entered the kitchen and near he door. Who other elements of the kitchen including the window, exhaust, stoves and other appliances like micro oven, mixer along with utensils etc

  • You are a bone specialist and you are inspecting a freshly received skull (of a human) with your hands (with gloves). A few other skeleton was seen on the table. Draw the scene as viewed by your eyes while you were holding the skull and inspecting it.

  • Draw the scene of the fish selling women (as given in CEED 2020 Q1 of Part B) while she was in her dressing room, observing her face in a big mirror, getting ready with makeup and feeling so proud of her looks. Draw the view in such a way that her face be visible in the mirror while she was also shown seated in front of the mirror.

  • Due to covid situation your mom got bored and so she converted the sit out (balcony) of you apartment home into a mini garden with all the pots, big artificial plant growing stuff and all, some on the floor, some on top of a specially manufactured iron stands and some hanging to the grills of the balcony wall. Draw the view as seen by you while you were standing near the entry of the balcony with whatever visible to your eyes. Depict as if your flat is in second floor and show some backdrops in the scene

  • You are fish and you are kept inside a big aquarium of my home :D

  • Draw the new scene as viewed by your fish eyes inside the water aquarium, observing me, being seated in a sofa and watching tv. While, your other fish friends were moving around and coming in between your sight.

  • Draw a half filled coke bottle with straw placed on top of a table. Give as much details (texture, reflection, shading, shadow, lighting, brand na,e etc.)

  • Draw the view of a living room with tables, cupboards, antique items, phone dated back to 1950s


Best tips to quickly improve and that can fetch you more marks:

  1. For any situation based question, always try to highlight the subject by making the subject focused when you draw the sketch. By focus or highlight I mean, not drawing thick or dark lines or not showing shines or flashes around the subject :P it mean the main subject under consideration shall be near to the view/sight as seen in the sketch. For example if I ask you to draw a basket full of fruits placed on top of a table, and if you end up drawing the basket with fruits, along with other stuff like say a mixer, utensils, back wall, windows, room door etc, then because the scene abs several elements, the examiner or the viewers focus shall not fall on the main subject immediately but instead moves from one object (unnecessary and point of un interest) to the other and so the viewers or the examiner might not get impressed!
  2. Draw mostly the parts asked (the requirements)......I’ve been reviewing many of tour works and I’ve been seeing you draw unnecessary stuff like the background, doors, windows, objects etc. this will not only eat your time, but also make u spend less time on the actual requirement. Apart from this, like I mentioned above, the fo us will not fall on the main subject. So try to be smart.
  3. My best strategy for sketching (and of course for all Part B) shall be - first understand the given question requirements, mentally imagine and plan the scene to be drawn and what needs to be included and excluded, quickly draw the outline of the scene with subject under focus by minding line quality, proportion of objects, perspective (if needed), form, and jumps to next question and start attempting them. Once you are done with all the questions, came back and gave little more details (especially to the sketching question) to make the, complete. In this way you will be in a safer side......that at least you had attempted all in a fairly acceptable way. Remember attempting only one sketch.....in a very artistic and hifi manner, by ignoring other questions is not good as compared to attempting all (or most of the) questions in a fairly acceptable manner.
  4. Like I almost always mention - understand the question and try to meet the requirements 


All the best,
Bhanu.



2 comments:

  1. Hello sir, I'm a rookie to sketching. Is it possible to achieve average level in 3 months?

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    1. It is possible, but the question is why did you choose design? If out of passion then good....if just to move out of some other field and taking this without passion, then you better have aternate options as well!

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