Drawing Word Search
This drawing word search holds forty words from the sketchbook: the pencil, the eraser and the sharpener, charcoal and graphite, hatching, stippling and shading, the vanishing point and the still life.
Pencils have never held lead. In the 1500s a large deposit of pure graphite was found at Borrowdale in the English Lake District, and people took the soft gray stone for a kind of lead, so the name stuck. The word pencil itself comes from the Latin penicillus, a little tail, which first meant a fine brush. Before erasers, artists rubbed out mistakes with balls of bread; in 1770 the scientist Joseph Priestley noticed that a lump of rubber did the job better, which is how rubber got its English name.
Linear perspective was worked out in Florence. Around 1415 the architect Filippo Brunelleschi showed that parallel lines, like the edges of a road, seem to meet at a single vanishing point on the horizon line, and Leon Battista Alberti wrote the method down in 1435. Hatching builds up shadow with rows of fine parallel lines and stippling does it with dots; for centuries they were the only way to shade an engraving, where a printer could not blend a gray tone with a finger.
Free Drawing Word Search Online Game
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Drawing Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Drawing word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Drawing has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Ballpoint
- Blend
- Caricature
- Cartoon
- Chalk
- Charcoal
- Crayon
- Doodle
- Easel
- Eraser
- Felt Tip
- Figure
- Fixative
- Foreshortening
- Gesture
- Graphite
- Grid
- Hatching
- Horizon Line
- Illustration
- Ink
- Light Source
- Marker
- Outline
- Paper
- Pastel
- Pencil
- Proportion
- Ruler
- Self Portrait
- Shading
- Sharpener
- Silverpoint
- Sketchbook
- Smudge
- Still Life
- Stippling
- Thumbnail
- Tracing
- Vanishing Point