To ask what age you think drew this picture?

[amiaweirdoo]

Trying to work out if it is good or not. Does this look like a child that has artistic potential and how old would you expect the child that drew that to be?

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I'm an artist - my almost 7 year old would produce art like that (but we do a lot of drawing in this house!) but I would say anywhere between 7-10?

All children have artistic potential, you just need to nurture it. This doesn't scream talent but art really is about developing your own style and love for it - the results come later after putting the work in!

If they traced it then they're either rubbish at tracing or traced it from a rubbish picture.

This. Most sensible post of the thread.

I would wager it's a copy of a portrait of Queen Victoria - the teeny little crown/tiara holding a veil is typical of many drawings & paintings of her in the 2nd half of the 19th century.

If you want to encourage your child @amiaweirdoo make sure you take her to lots of art galleries, to see exhibitions of all styles and eras, and teach her to really look. No taking photos - just look at the paintings.

im guessing they were copying from a picture of a portrait in front of them. I would say around 8/9. I think quite a few talented year 4s could do this. It’s a lovely pictures

I love these ones.

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In true Catherine Tate style: I guess 2 years old….no, well then 97 years old?

She's copying something, isn't she? A famous picture of some sort-can't place it though! It's very good

I've quirked in primary schools I'd say between 7-10

I made art like that at age 5/6. Now, as an adult, I can faithfully draw anything that I see in front of me (but can't paint to save my life!).

I also know a working artist whose pieces look not too dissimilar to this so...

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You will only get a few decent answers OP. Problem is posters will give ridiculous answers like age 6/7 because God forbid anyone thinks their child has a speck of talent 😊.
I think a talented 11/12 year old or a naturally gifted younger child. But no average 6/7 year old will be able to create something like that.

6/7 isn't a ridiculous answer at all. If you have a child which has been drawing for a couple of years, who puts the time in - they are more than capable of creating work to this level.

Art skills really are developed the more you do it.

go onto your local primary school website and look at photos of the "art" produced by their various classes, or just art without the ""
you'll see what primary school children can produce. Give kids some credits. Others will struggle with stick men at the same age 😂

It's like those posts where a woman posts a pic asking what size people think she is and nearly every reply says "at least an 18" when the woman is a size 8!

7-9

I've been in a primary school all day... like I said, a very gifted 6/7 year old but its certainly not the norm. No way.

I'd say age 9 to 11

No not the norm at all - but not impossible.

I also have illustrator friends who as 30 year olds, their drawing style is not far of this and are very successful in their field.

My 10 year old wouldn't be capable of this, but he's not very arty. I'll say 10 or so anyway though, as I'm pretty certain some of his friends draw to that level. I really like it!

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About 9/10.

I'm impressed by the hair parting and shading.

Could be an adult, reminds me of blind contour drawing, art degree stuff. Not all drawing follows traditional concepts of draughtsmanship: Picasso, Giacometti, Emin, Warhol's sketches of cats, etc.
Paul Klee described drawing as 'taking a line for a walk', and many higher level fine arts courses will encourage students to do away with traditional techniques. A sort of freedom or exploration, if you will.

I say an adult could have created this due to the deliberation, the mark making choices. Kids often tend to make different decisions regarding what to emphasise or include/exclude.
So who knows!!!!

So the posters replying 6/7 aren't being very genuine are they? It really really isn't the norm for that age group to produce paintings like the one in the op. I mean you can guarantee a 6/7 year olds painting will be amazing 😁 but it won't be as technically good as that one.

I would have said 8/9 but I fear the artist is 17 and been rejected from the Royal College of art so the OP isn’t coming back.

I agree with this too. Talent is really the consistency of doing something over and over and learning techniques, usually from a young age guided by a parent or mentor or teacher. My son is an artist, he was painting colorful blobs on paper at 2 because I gave him the paint and paper and put him in a little art smock. Obviously the child has to take an interest and that is the magic talent in my opinion. On his own he was continually drawing, then sculpting, then painting, at 18 he is excellent, can draw or paint anything or anyone, by just looking and even just by remembering. But every child starts at the beginning.

Same for music. Even Mozart and his sister were hounded as tiny tots to practice day and night by their father. Granted, they did have extraordinary potential talent they were born with, to accomplish everything they did. But even they had to start at the beginning and learn the notes, the chords, the techniques. The rate of learning was just so much faster because all people have things they have a natural inclination and talent for but that potential has to be developed. Mozart’s father wrote letters to his son telling him he’d better be practicing his violin more, in the midst of writing and performing masterpieces on the piano 😂 actually, it’s a bit sad as he was so driven by his father and his own creativity it ruined his health.

I believe that every person has great potential that none of us knows the limits of, even that person. So I really don’t like to see anyone judged as no good or not having talent etc.