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Junior Cycle Graphics: Freehand sketching of views
How often Freehand sketching of views comes up on the Graphics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker
Freehand sketching of views, Common Level(7 marks)
Quick ones on Freehand sketching of views.
(a)When you sketch an elevation freehand, what matters most?
- Exact measurements
- Good proportion
- Ruled straight edges
(b)You sketch a washing machine looking straight at its round front door. Which view is this?
- End view
- Plan
- Elevation
(c)When starting a freehand view, what should you draw first?
- Faint guide lines for the overall size
- Shading to show the light source
- Heavy, dark final outlines
Show the answers
(a) Good proportion
(b) Elevation
(c) Faint guide lines for the overall size
Common Level
Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Q2a |
| 2025 | Q2c, Q4a |
| 2024 | Q3a |
| 2023 | Q4a |
| 2022 | Q5a |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Graphics topics
- Angles, triangles & polygons
- Auxiliary views & true shape
- Dividing a line into equal parts
- Drawing conventions & dimensions
- Ellipse
- Freehand pictorial sketching
- Orthographic projection
- Parabola
- Rendering & presentation
- Spatial reasoning & visualising
- Surface development
- Tangents & circles in contact
- True length & indexing
- Bisectors & centre of a circle
- Circle terms & properties
- Measurement, scales & area
- Perspective drawing
- Sections & truncated solids
- Similar figures & enlargement
- Axonometric projection
- Solids & their properties
- Transformations & symmetry
- Isometric & oblique drawing
- Solids of revolution