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.

Subjective (Part B) exercises and free guide books collection as per new pattern from 2020

Part B practice questions - 2 (for CEED and UCEED)

Part B Design Practice Questions 2 (2021 update)

In continuation to the practice questions that I had released recently Design Practice Questions part 1 as per the new syllabus, I'm sharing a few more practice questions. Again, as mentioned in the first post, I will try to make you understand how possible it is to come up with your own questions so that you can start depending on self instead of pouring money for the practice questions. Also, I've shown how we can use the already available questions (for ex. I've taken CEED question) and can use them to come up with variants of questions. Hopefully you will start making your own questions.

Sketching Practice Questions

1. Sketch the view of a fridge wide open and filled with vegetables and other stuff as viewed by a 3 years old kid standing two feet away from it. No need to draw the kid and the surroundings.
2. Draw the view as seen by a teacher while teaching in a class room with only two students being present in the big class.
3. Draw separate baskets of fruits and vegetables placed on top of a dinning table with as many vegetables and fruits as possible.
4. Hot food is served on top of a dinning table suitable to accommodate four people with all the necessary utensils arranged. There are four chairs that is around the dinning table. Food is already served in plates and hot soups and filled water glasses are all ready. Assuming that you are standing three feet far from a corner (one of the diagonal) of the dinning table, sketch the view without any people. No need to draw background but represent the smoke from the food (because of being hot).
5. Sketch a cooker placed on top of a stove with flame turned on, and is whistling. Give proper details to this.
6. Given the standing view of a spider man image/sketch, draw a sketch showing him fly using his web.
7. Naughty Kiran, a 2 years kid, took the opportunity of his mom talking to her neighbour, and created a mess in the play room. He crawled to the dinning table and tried a lot but couldn’t reach to his favourite item available in a medium size glass jar, sugar, placed on top of the table. Outraged he hit his head onto the table making it topple to one side, thereby shattering water from the drinking water jar made of steel. Cooked rice got scattered from the thermal utensil. The sugar jar broke on the floor and thus he finally got what he want. Hearing the footsteps of his mom, he crawled fast to the other room to hide there making his crawl tracks (sugar, water and rice). Draw the view as seen by Kiran’s mother as she just opened the door only to witness the mess and the crawling tracks left behind by our hero, Kiran.
8. Srikant is a cycle mechanic and he is attending to the puncture of a bicycle in front of his shop in the street. Draw a scene showing him working on puncture.
9. Draw a comb double the regular size placed next to a tooth brush of the same size.
10. Draw a computer mouse double it’s regular size placed next to a keyboard of regular size.

Given the image, do the following as stated in the question

1. Given a mixer grinder jar, draw the jar separately with the jar cap in open position

2. Given the image of a Gouri with fish basket, draw two scenes of her (without fish basket), one sweeping the floor with a broom, second emptying a bucket of water onto the floor.

3. Given the image of a cooker, redraw the cooker in open with its lid placed on the floor upside down.

4. Given the half pictures of the below animals, compete the sketch by drawing the other half base don your imagination. After you make an attempt you can check the full images in the PDF at the end of this page.

5. Given the image of Sony truly wireless headphones in two views, draw the same in 3D as much as you understood.

6. Given the image of Mr. Peterson, sketch him while he was in a happy and partying mood and was dancing with one leg in air and one hand raised, or any position you have in mind.

    

7. Given the sketch of Jackson with his skateboards, draw him in action - jumping in air with two legs on top of skate board with  

8. Shown is Crolina sketch, draw her in a bad/frustrated mode as her mom made her go to vegetable shopping. Sketch the view of her walking in street holding a bag of vegetables, showing her mood.

9. Shown is the sketch of Adventure Anthony, sketch him while he was climbing a ladder

Sketch the following with as much details as possible. No need to show the background.

1. Mosquito liquid vaporiser machine
2. Cooking gas lighter
3. AC and TV remote
4. Ray ban aviator style cooling glass with the case next to it.

PDF of full animal sketches

Practice questions 3 (for both CEED and UCEED)

Free Part A Mock tests

CEED Part B Design Practice Questions - as per new pattern

As part of the new Part B pattern from 2020, I've listed some practice questions below so that you can make use of this as your practice to design exams. I'm trying to make you self dependent for your preparation. This I do by giving you a hint on how we can come up with exercise or practice questions on our own - by considering the everyday observed or the ones known to us - like the characters, products etc. considered in the below sample questions. I hope you will be able to start developing your own questions. All the best....

Before going through the practice questions here is a video on 

Sketching Level required/sufficient for CEED and UCEED exams

Part B practice questions - 2 (for CEED and UCEED)

Practice questions 3 (for both CEED and UCEED)

1. Sketching of Characters (Similar to Q1 in CEED 2020)

Given the characters below. Draw the described situations by maintaining the same character. No need to draw the background.

1. Popeye character - he is swallowing spinach from a tin and is feeling energized with his biceps boosted. Show him in standing posture with one leg on top of a stone of height equal to a feet

2. Character 2 - The cat is seated on an elevated platform with a sad face as it was hungry. 

3. Character 3 - The treacherous cat is now crying with pain as a big stone fell on his left leg. Show the cat holding his leg up with his two hands and also show the painful emotion of the cat.

4. Character 4 - Donald duck is lying on his bed and is yawing as if just waken up from his sleep. 

5. Character 5 - The bear is happy as his mouth is filled with fish, held with his two hands while being seated on top of a small chair

6. Character 6 - Draw the boy walking on the road carrying a school bag, holding the bag's two arms while he was about to kick a tin/can (say coke can) lying on the ground. He was not happy as his teacher had scolded him for not doing the homework. Show his expression. 

7. Character 7 - Draw Mickey mouse playing guitar in a standing position while he was deeply immersed (as if in a different world) in singing a song

8. Character 8 - Draw the character as if he was in love mode while he was seated on top of a wooden box     

2. Making Patterns out of visual elements (Similar to Q2 in CEED 2020)

Using the visual elements given below, create at least three recognizable objects/elements (for all the seven images below) and give a title to each. Use only BLACK pencil/pen. Draw only within the boundaries of the boxes.

3. Problem Identification Exercises (similar to Q5 in CEED 2020)

Identify the 5 important problems that you, as a user, face when using the products/items listed below. Do the following for each problem 

• Illustrate and annotate the identified problems separately
• Describe each problem in one sentence
• Propose your solutions (sketching the solutions are optional) with one or two lines of how the proposals solve the issues

Evaluation Criteria:

• Your problem identification and observation
• Ability to express the problems and the solutions through sketches 
• The practicality of identified problems and solutions

For your understanding, I've given the respective images for the listed situations below after the tips

1. Spectacles 
2. Sandals 
3. Over the ear headphones 
4. Marker pen
5. Water bottle
6. Computer mouse
7. Wooden chair
8. Hair comb
9. Stylus on tabs/ipads
10. Dustbin 
11. Scissors
12. Shaving Razor
13. Mobile phone
14. Water tap (faucet) 
15. Door lock knob 
16. Coffee mug
17. Shampoo bottle
18. Helmet
19. Lantern

Some tips to note:

(I've considered Q5 of CEED 2020 as the case study to explain the below points) 

• Given the product image, identify the problems, and speak only about the problems associated with that particular given product. Don't generalize or assume similar but slightly or highly different products. I strongly believe that it will be a mistake if you identify problems or propose solutions for a generalized product rather than for the given specific object.  
• Given the form of the object/product (for ex. the outer shape of the toothbrush) and also it is obvious that other things are not mentioned (like for example the hardness of the bristles, the material of the brush, or the material of the bristles) don't state problems related to these unmentioned features. Like if you say that the brush bristles bend after using for some time, I might not appreciate that if I were to be an examiner (I might be wrong but this is how I think). I would suggest not to go for longterm effects of the product components, as the specifics like material were not given. Try to utilize only the information available, like the form, shape/size, aesthetics, ergonomics, obvious looking material (like for ex. it is obvious to identify wood, plastic, etc.) and so on - to state the problems. It is better to get lesser marks stating obvious or common problems than trying to identify crucial problems by making some assumptions on the unavailable data.

(Remember: If there are no seemingly possible problems, then CREATE the opportunities by identifying the least probable (as it appears) happening problems by using the products/items. The problems that we never thought are problems, or, the ones most ignored (by taking them as granted) by the users, including you!)

Few more products to try (images not shown) 

1. Floor mop (single-piece design with non-replaceable mopping pads)
2. Mosquito bat
3. Vegetable cutting knife
4. Potato peeler
5. Gas stove lighter 
6. Mechanical watch
7. Wired In-ear headphones
8.  Induction stove

As you can see above that we can create our own practice questions out of everyday used things/appliances. Give it a try and come up with questions.....coz.....it's an art!

Additional exercises to improve your problem identification skills

 

Identify the problems of using the following products (no need to sketch) and list your alternate solutions 

1. TV remote
2. Immersion water heater
3. iPad
4. Desktop PC
5. Hairdryer
6. Broom
7. Writing plastic pad
8. Nail cutter

4. Visual Synthesis 

Create 2D graphic icon signs for all the situations listed below with either pencil or pen. The graphic icon was supposed to be installed as a signboard at appropriate locations.

(This exercise will help to attempt similar visual communications questions. Try to attempt these very quickly.)

Evaluation criteria

• Consistency of design language followed 
• Ability to convey the written item as a graphic
• The neatness of the icons drawn

Situations

1. Restricted area for trespassing
2. Restaurant
3. School zebra crossing
4. Cow farm
5. Men and Women washroom
6. Fire extinguisher 
7. No smoke zone
8. No parking zone 
9. Silence 
10. Hospital
11. No littering 
12. Dustbin 
13. Drinking water 
14. Medical store
15. Slopy/steep road
16. Watch your step
17. Slippery surface
18. Cleaning under progress
19. Hillstation
20. Bicycle parking
21. Bus stop
22. Coconut 
23. Radio explosive zone
24. Lions
25. Reserve area
26. No fire zone

5. Visual Branding (Visual communication)

Create visual brand logos for the following:

1. Eyewear shop, name 'mywear'
2. A Bar and Restaurant, name 'Melon'
3. A boutique shop, name 'botik'
4. A flower shop, name 'pugal'
5. A trade mark meat brand, name 'murug'
6. A new design for Reebok shoe brand
7. A camera accessory shop, name 'focus' 
8. A new mobile brand 'Caret'
9. A new supermarket brand 'Whole mart'
10. A currency exchange dealer, name 'Xchange'

As it must be clear to you how that it is quite easy to create practice questions out of our everyday activities or the ones that we have seen earlier. Try this by yourself. Let me know if the above practice questions are helpful or not.........so that I can either continue or stop sharing such questions. 

CEED 2020 Part B sketching solutions

In this post, I will share my sketching attempts for CEED 2020 Part B subjective paper to give you an idea of how I would solve the questions if I were to give the exam. The way I solved might not be the correct way, but at least I don't want to stop myself from sharing how I would do. Hope you find this helpful.

Note:

1. I drew all the sketches digitally. However, you are supposed to do this using pencils/pen as instructed in the question paper.
2. I might have missed perspective or some important elements, you can understand that. As you know I'm just average at sketching. This post is just to give you an idea.

Tips for answering the subjective questions

I keep repeating the below tips to stress the importance of the points

1. Read, read, and read.......read and understand the question carefully. Sketch only that asked in the question. It's not necessary to do the extra portion...no need to prove your artistic skills. If mentioned specifically (like in Q1 they mentioned not to draw the environment), don't do the extra works. It will result in minus marking!
2. Make sure you show everything required in the questions....the specific things like for ex. the flies in Q1
3. Understand the evaluation criteria and try to meet them.....to your level best
4. Use only the media mentioned in the question
5. Try not to use rulers/scale even if not mentioned in the question

You can check a detailed list of tips for subjective question in this post - walking stick design problem sketch

Q1) 

My sketch solutions for Q1

Points to remember:

1. Maintain the same size and proportion of the lady and her features - this includes smaller details like eyes, eyebrows (which is not required here), size of the earrings, bangles etc. In short, you are supposed to replicate the same character as given in the question
2. Maintain the same perspective as far as possible - my suggestion. Like for ex., I've tried to maintain the same view of the basket with the fishes. 
3. Attempt only those parts that are required in the questions

Mistakes that you should avoid:

1. Drawing the platform on top of which she was seated.
2. Sketch of the surroundings like market scenario, fellow sellers etc. Sketching her in a standing position for both the two questions.
3. Giving additional features to her, like wrinkles, shades, eyebrows, changing ear rings, bangles etc.
4. Missing the towel in the first sketch or showing a handkerchief instead of the towel. 

Here is the timelapse video of how I drew this (just for understanding. Nothing to do with sketching)

Q2) 

My sketch solutions for Q2

Mistakes that you should avoid:

1. Resizing the shapes (line as well as the circle), like using smaller/bigger size circle, changing the arc radius, or making a longer/shorter length line. You should use the same line length and the same radius of the circle. 
2. The three objects should maintain the same orientations in all the sketches. 
3. Missing one or two of the shapes given.
4. Try making the shapes in the correct distances with respect to the enclosing/bounding box as shown in the questions, like I've maintained in all the 10 solutions - just my suggestion.

Q3)

My sketch solutions for Q3

I would prefer not to draw the backgrounds for the icons. In fact, for the 4th solutions, I should've used one or at the max two flowers, which I feel is sufficient and makes a good icon.

Q4) 

My sketch solution for Q4

Points to remember:

1. Understand and figure out the light direction, that would result in the shadow as shown in the question. Based on that, you can consider showing the shadows for the body. Remember, the body shall be mostly plastic or plastic mix and so you won't see the shining reflection as seen for the metal top mixer.
2. Knobs and the switches should be drawn with the utmost care. In my sketch, I could've drawn it even better. 
3. The view (3D orientation) of the mixer should match the view of the body to be drawn. But, don't change the orientation of the top mixer to match with the body (in case you end up drawing the body first and then the mixer). I would prefer to draw the top mixer first and match the bottom body according to the top mixer's perspective. 

Q5) 

My sketch solutions for Q5

 

Problem description 

1. Sharp pain at the palm surface where the toothbrush tail end is being pressed hard
2. Uncomfortable and slip of grip at the mid-level while brushing
3. Pain and rubbing of the brush back on the gums of the tooth during the front and back action
4. Difficulty to reach the backmost teeth, causing discomfort of opening the mouth wide
5. Difficulty in stretching the mouth wide when the brush is used to clean the front sides

Oops....I think I forgot to draw the 6th problem :D I hope that's ok. 

Points to remember:

1. Don't spend time drawing a complete person or complete hand. The solutions should highlight the key highlights - the problems because of using the toothpaste. Draw only those parts that are required to express the problems. You can see how I have drawn partial hands and facial features. I think this should work.
2. You don't want to draw the backgrounds and all. Not at all needed. 
3. The problem description is supposed to come beneath the respective image. I've shown them separately for my convenience. 
4. Don't show the solution :) or propose/suggest solutions in the description.

Sketching Level required/sufficient for CEED and UCEED exams

Hope this is useful.