NATA Drawing Preparation 2021

As we all know, the drawing section plays a vital role in the NATA exam. The questions in the drawing section test your creative imagination along with your sense of perspective.

Preparing for the drawing section is not a challenging task if you improve your creative skills.

Aspirant of NATA but wondering how to prepare for the drawing exam? Well, read through the post that will give you a complete insight into NATA Drawing Preparations Tips, including a one-month study plan and sample questions.

How to Prepare for NATA Drawing Test?

The drawing test consists of two questions and should be answered in 90 minutes. You should do your best to make your drawings visually appealing.

The questions are designed mainly to judge you on the following parameters:

• Drawing skills from day-to-day experiences.
• Understanding of scale and balance
• Combining and composing given 3-D elements to form a building or structural form;
• Creating an innovative 2-D composition using given shapes and forms;
• Creating visual harmony using colors in a given proportion;
• Sense of perspective drawing

What is the Syllabus for NATA Drawing Section?

Before proceeding with the preparation, it is essential to go through the detailed NATA Syllabus as this will help you get an idea about the important topics from the exam point of view.

• Understanding scale and proportion of objects, geometric composition, shape, building forms and elements, aesthetics, color texture, harmony, and contrast.
• Conceptualization and Visualization through structuring objects in memory.
• Drawing of patterns - both geometrical and abstract.
• Form transformations in 2D and 3D like union, subtraction, rotation, surfaces, and volumes.
• Generating plan, elevation, and 3D views of objects.
• Creating 2D and 3D compositions using given shapes and forms. Perspective drawing, Sketching of urbanscape and landscape, Common day-to-day life objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory.

What is the NATA Drawing Preparation Plan for One Month?

Your one-month study plan for NATA Drawing Section can be as follows:

Short Tricks for NATA Drawing Preparation

The drawing section can have any question. You have to draw the exact scene as asked in the question paper. It would help if you removed it in a proper required technique as well as architectural-wise correct.

You can attempt NATA Mock Tests daily to know the types of questions asked in the exam.

There are some examples given below with the questions. You can take help from the samples. This shall give you a clear idea of how to attempt the exam and what expectations are demanded. 

1. Imagine you just joined a conference, coffee cup in hand; what did you see

2. Imagine you are riding a cruiser bike, the scene that you see

3. Imagine you are a worm; you see a dog, a man, and a cycle at the corner of a street. Sketch what you see as a worm

4. Imagine you are walking on a street, draw this scene in one-point perspective

Anything of this kind can appear as a question in the exam, and you are supposed to draw that accurately, not beautifully. You need an exact and appropriate sketch, and the drawing doesn't have to be very beautiful.

You can also be asked to draw patterns that could be geometrically or abstractly.

You should know how a 2D object can be transformed into a 3D one and vice versa—adding to this, the 2D and 3D creations using given shapes and forms.

You may find it a little tricky. But this can be made easy with a lot of practice and the proper guidance.

Sample NATA Drawing Questions

For enhancing preparation, it is advised to solve NATA Previous Year Papers so that you can come across different types of questions. You can also understand the difficulty level of the questions.

Here are few sample drawing questions that can help in better preparation

1. You are visiting a mall where there are food stalls. You are enjoying your cold drink on the ground floor of the five-story atrium space seeing the people moving on escalators, shopping, performing cultural. Sketch this scene.
2. You are a bird flying over a historical monument. Draw what you see.
3. Imagine you are sitting in an auditorium and attending a dance program. Sketch a view from your position.
4. Five bricks, four circular wooden logs, and six balls are given to you. Make an interesting stable composition using these elements and show light and shadow on the design.
5. Using in desired numbers, the basic geometric shapes found in a bicycle, make a visually appealing composition without overlapping the pieces and colour it using three colours in a medium of your choice.
6. A clay vase, a glass vase & a steel vase kept on a table. Sketch them with the appropriate shade & shadow effects considering the light on the top right.
7. Make a composition using circles—Show movement with only five colours.
8. Make a mural for secondary school people with hexagons, circles, and triangles with three colours.
9. You have been provided with a piece of coloured paper in the shape of red triangles, blue circles, and yellow squares. Make a composition in the given space using a maximum of five pieces.
10. There are three cubes. One cube has a hole on one of its sides, shaped like a circle. One cube has a hole through a side shaped like a triangle. The third cube has a hole shaped like a square. All three holes cut through the cubes.
11. Make a composition using the three cubes. They are of the same size. Use shade and shadow.