What age kid drew this

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I'm interested to know if this is normal for her age. Just for fun, but she does want to be an artist when she grows up. I thought her older sister had drawn it so that's what made me ask.

5 comes to mind

it varies so much.
probably not pre-school, probably school age, so 5-8.

Mostly about 6-7 I would say

So how old then?
There's drawing ability and there's imagination. One can be very creative but not have the skill, or skilled but not creative. Hopefully it's a combo of both!
The different hair styles and accessories indicates an older child I think, like 6/7?
My son couldn't have drawn that at 8, though he had plenty of imagination and drew interesting things. My daughter could much younger and has that wonderful combination of talent and creativity (now heading to art school after A levels).

I've no idea because my children are not at that age yet. It doesn't really matter though does it. OP clearly you are impressed with the drawing and hopefully your DD knows how impressed you are with it and feels very proud of herself.

No fingers- so developmentally below 5.

5-6

Around 7 would be my guess

Oh well spotted.

Some fingers though?
I would still say 5 rather than under 5.
Most reception aged children would not produce this, well until towards the end of the year.

I'm 26 and still cant be arsed with fingers 🤣

I'd have said around 8/9. The faces are very good and pretty fiddly

4

7-9

6 months

I'd say about 5 too. No fingers and the way the arms are from the shoulders & different 'thicknesses'

@MintyGreenDream you beat me to it 😂

It’s very good compared to my 4 year olds scribbles! So I’d say about 7.

About 7-8. The eyes are the give away. Most 5 year olds don't draw them like that imo.

Only by reception? By that age my DS had almost completed his first fresco.

I'd say around about age 8, give or take a year.

Younger than 4 = outstanding.
4 or 5 would be very good.
6 or 7 good but not out of the ordinary.

sqirrelfriends

Only by reception? By that age my DS had almost completed his first fresco.

I know, bit embarrassing.I'm only posting because it's anonymous.

My 7 yo could draw like that in reception.
My currently reception age child does scribbles.

My first thought was 6, based on my almost 5 year old's drawing skills.

Age reveal then... she's 5.

Her mum certainly would not have drawn this at 5. Like someone else said, I thought the faces had something about them to me. She draws pretty much to the same standard as her sister 3 years older (who also I'm very proud of obviously).

5-8. Just beyond nursery age children that I work with.

There's a lot of fluidity in the line so I don't think this is by a 5 year old. I think older. I think the subject matter and the way the feet are done etc suggests a generic learnt way of doing it. The person talking about a three year old is being ridiculous. It's the fluidity in the control of the line that children don't have when really small even if approaching the subject matter like the feet in the same way. I'm also impressed with the hairdos! 7 maybe? It could be more of a play about doodle from an older child. But I'm not a teacher and don't come across that many children's drawings. I just think younger children have more scratchy less controlled (even if incredibly interesting sometimes!) drawings. I would say this is a child doing slightly generic subject matter but with a lovely fluidity of line and a great overall design sense with the patterns and the loops (and also that sense of details in the plaits etc). I feel it's someone with talents that could develop those talents more - the details, and the sense of overall fluid design.

But I want to say something else on here. OP if your daughter is interested in art, please give her ways of being able to develop it or explore it - even if she loses interest later on.

I'm an artist and what I think is so important is having had access to stuff as a child like paper and materials, books with great artists in, a place I was always able and allowed to draw and it was my "thing" if you like. In my friends houses such an activity was just occasional or brought out especially for a very limited time and then put away again. Not something a child could do whenever they wished. I think drawing and creating and engaging with art gives people so much in life even though that can rarely be measured in a monetary sense. The ability to draw at any time was so important to me. It wasn't something I had to do at only certain controlled times and ways. Going to galleries also had a big impact on me as a child. Art is also about more than doing something a school might recognise as being advanced at a particular age. Some of the great artists have been precocious at drawing, but some of our greatest artists say it is because they weren't the most precocious, but they had an enduring interest or obsession with drawing and the struggle of drawing that let them eventually develop their own style. Practise practise practise is key to so many things, but that comes more easily and naturally to those who want to spend time doing it and have the access to space and materials or whatever.

Getting encouragement and being allowed to develop that interest would be an amazing thing whether or not she eventually decides to take it any further or not. It's nice to see a post that wants to encourage their child in their interests. For me it's less about what standard a drawing is at a particular age and more about the child's interest and feeding back about the elements of her drawings that have spark and promise and that can be developed further.