Showing shade by making many small pencil dots is called what?

Correct answer: Stippling

The direct answer is A: stippling. Stippling is a drawing or shading technique in which many separate dots are placed close together. A darker area is made with more dots or dots placed more closely; a lighter area is made with fewer dots or greater spaces between them. The reasoning is therefore: the mark used is a dot; repeated dots create tonal value; tonal value shows shade; this method is called stippling. Option A is correct. Option B, a colour wheel, is a diagram showing relationships among colours, not a dot-based shading method. Option C, paper fold, means bending paper and is unrelated to pencil shading. Option D, straight cutting, describes cutting along a straight line and does not create tonal shading with dots. Do not confuse stippling with hatching, which uses lines. Memory cue: stippling starts with “stip-”; think of stops or dots.