To think these drawings are pretty great for their ages. What do you think the ages of the kids are?

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Went to watch Dogman movie with my 2 kids. I was asleep through most of it to be honest but the kids found it funny. When they came back home they started doing some drawings based on the film. I think they are pretty great for their ages but then again I am hopeless when it comes to any form of art !

What age do you think my DC are based on these?

I genuinely guessed 4 and 8. So I was almost bang on!

Just let them enjoy it. My 7 year old loves drawing for us because we love all of her pictures 😍

I was right - do I win one of the drawings?! 😂😂

5 and 7 is my guess :)

I have an artist. He's 16. You don't need classes. YouTube and commitment are all you need. Together with time and encouragement. I think these are really good. The little one's especially so. At their ages, artwork is an indication of general intelligence and wellbeing. It's lovely you're deservedly very proud of them! Whatever they choose to specialise in as they get older, they will have you to support them. Art is quite an exacting discipline. Ability is important but it involves an enormous amount of practice and training. You seem like a lovely mum who will nurture them in whatever they choose to do. They clearly have bags of potential!

I have children myself but would not be able to draw as well as your child who made the right hand side picture

👌 .. I wouldn't dare come back if I was the OP.

It's weird how art by kids is so highly valued and encouraged, but most working artists are barely scraping by and are offered a lot of work 'for exposure'. Where do we lose it?

8 and 11

Hmm. I teach Year 1 and 2. Going to say 5 and 8?

Ppfff! My little prince painted the original before I was born, therefore before I had eggs.

Haha. 3 is exactly what I was going to say!

Thinking about it now I reckon they might be 5 and 8. They are very good pictures.

Oh, I was spot on!

Around 10 or so? This is a really typical way that pre-pubescent boys start to draw - by copying their favourite cartoons. THey're copies so the basic shapes & outlines are there for them.

I wouldn't fuss over "gifted child" for such stuff.

I would have guessed 6 and 9 so yes very good for 5 and 8.

Erm I think you mean 'Avin' a giraarffe' if they are Eastenders! Apologies I am useless at guessing ages

I think they are good for those ages. My drawing skill never progressed beyond the one on the left through so I may be easily impressed.

6 and 9

I’d go with maybe 7 and 10?
My daughter isn’t a sensational artist for her age (neither am I for any age) but she draws similar to the one on the left.

At those ages mine were more into Modern Art. The oldest had mastered the art form of "unmade bed", and the youngest was doing "campbells soup" (albeit over their face....

I'd have said exactly this. Not necessarily an average 5 or 9 year old, but fairly arty ones.

Just look at any Primary School classroom with a wall of drawings. At the same age, some drawings will be a lot better, some a lot worst - or less "advanced" or whatever politically correct expression you want to use.

As long as the kids enjoy what they're doing, who cares. Only parents make it a competition.

I really like the lettering on the right. He's starting to think in 3D. 👏

I'm 35 and couldn't draw as well as the one on the right, so...40plus? 😂

Yes. It's best to kill creative ambition before it gets a hold. Or, indeed the very idea that children can express themselves individually. They're decent drawings. The very idea that artistic ability is some sort of god given talent is false. It's a learnt discipline and a really gruelling one. The really lovely thing in this post is that mum's really proud of this and they're being encouraged. I also think it's cute that the siblings were happy to do something together. I think it is shockingly narrow-minded to say 'all pre-pubesent boys draw like this.' The OP isn't asking if you think they should be exhibited in the National. But you have to be cutting about it. Does it feel better?