Use drawing to demonstrate understanding of conventions appropriate to painting
This standard is about showing you understand how painting actually works by using drawing as your evidence. You need to demonstrate knowledge of painting conventions—the specific techniques, materials, and visual rules that painters use—through sketches, studies, and drawn work that informs your understanding of the medium.
You use drawing and selected techniques to show you understand basic painting conventions and how visual elements work.
You deliberately choose specific drawing techniques and processes, showing you understand particular painting conventions and can apply them with consideration of how they achieve your outcome.
You critically select and confidently apply drawing techniques and painting conventions, demonstrating fluent, in-depth understanding of how visual elements and principles work together to create meaning in painting.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.