Characteristics of the drawing of my family as a child. Test "My Family"

All children in in a certain sense- artists. Every child, starting from 2–3 years old, draws with passion. Visual activities for small child is natural and pleasant, and only by adolescence the craving for drawing remains only among artistically gifted children. Visual activity is formed as the child’s psyche develops and can, to a certain extent, serve as an indicator of his mental development. IN children's drawing the features of thinking, imagination, emotional-volitional sphere and personality of the baby are revealed.

Children's drawings differ from adults' drawings, since for a child drawing is not art, but speech. A child's awareness of his surroundings occurs faster than the accumulation of words, so drawing gives him the opportunity to easily express what he is experiencing. Therefore, drawing can provide valuable information.

All children go through the same stages of drawing development:

Pre-figurative stage

(from 1.5 to 3.5 years). This is the period of scribbling, scribbling, when the child is interested in the process of leaving marks on paper (or other surface) and the result of the activity is unimportant. Color at this stage also has no semantic meaning: the baby tries, studies, experiments.

Fine stage

It is longer and more diverse:

• Drawing with primitive expressiveness(from 3 to 5 years). The child is trying not just to draw, but to depict something - however, he succeeds in doing it very schematically. For example, when depicting a person, a child draws a “cephalopod”.
• Schematic drawing (6–7 years old). The child begins to distinguish facial expressions, movements and emotions in the drawing.
• Believable images when a child develops drawing skills and the drawing already loses its childishness.

Interpretation of a child's drawing

The work of a 5-year-old boy raises questions. This happens when the drawing, on the one hand, provides little diagnostic information due to the simplicity of the plot, but on the other hand, it is alarming with certain points. This picture is a little inappropriate for the child's age. The drawing is typical for a 3-4 year old child (the stage of scribbles with elements of a schematic image), which may indicate a possible delay in the boy’s mental development (but not necessarily!) or that his graphic skills are poorly developed.

Taking into account the plot (the boy drew his favorite characters Angry Birds), most likely, the child’s development does not cause concern, and we can only talk about poor hand motor skills and insufficient drawing skills. The color scheme of the drawing is quite consistent with the chosen plot and is quite realistic.

In the picture we see “faces” with eyes and mouths - this is initial stage images of humans and other living beings. According to the formal characteristics in the drawing, one can distinguish the “correct” location of the image on the sheet (in the center), its standard, average size, which serves as a sign of the boy’s normal visual-spatial orientation. However, chaotic lines, strong pressure when coloring and weak pressure when drawing outlines is a sign of possible emotional instability of the child, rapid changes in his states (for example, periods of activity often alternate with periods of lethargy). The drawing is careless, which may indicate the author’s impulsiveness, but it is clear that the child can control his hand (the coloring extends little beyond the outline), so it is more likely to assume that third-party assessment is of little importance to the author. This is also evidenced by the low detail of the drawing.

The picture is dominated by dark colors (black, brown, purple), which may indicate a low mood. Drawing individual elements with multiple lines, with strong pressure, in different directions characteristic of manifestations of anxiety. Blackened eyes and a mouth with teeth are considered signs of fear and aggressive behavior.

Psychologist's conclusion

Analyzing this figure, we can conclude that the skills are insufficient for 5 years visual arts boy and poor motor skills. Judging by the picture, it can be assumed that the child has a mobile nervous system, there are often changes in mood and behavior, but quite good self-control for his age. He cannot be called hyperactive and unbalanced. Probably, during that period of his life during which the drawing took place, the boy was alarmed, experienced a feeling of fear (perhaps quite definite), so he defended himself - he behaved aggressively and warily. However, without additional observations of the child’s behavior and play, it is not possible to say this with certainty.

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In this lesson we will look at how to draw Fear from the movie “Puzzle” with a pencil step by step. Fear is such a creature purple and very thin with large bulging eyes from fear.

Let's get started. We first need to decide on the proportions, for this we draw a skeleton, mark the top of the eyes with an oblique line, one of them is located slightly higher than the other, then we determine where the head ends, draw the bones of the arms and legs. Next we make a sketch of the body without going into detail. Erase auxiliary lines and sketch out the hands.

Let's start drawing. We will start drawing from the eyes, first we draw the one that is fully visible and closer to us, then we draw the second one, which is higher and not fully visible. Then draw the shape of the head, mouth and legs. Above the head we draw eyebrows that have risen upward in fear. After that we draw the neck, shoulder, body, legs and arms.
I drew more of the body because the head turned out to be much larger than the body and my sketch now remains a sketch, and I draw the body much more than it was in order to respect the proportions of this character.

We correct our lines, erase unnecessary ones, paint over the shoes, the bow tie on the throat, and the eyebrows black. You can also color the fear in other colors to make it look like the original. That's all, Fear from the cartoon "Puzzle" is ready.

How to draw emotions. Emotions in a pencil portrait

In this lesson we will look at how a person's face will change, expressing different emotions. When expressing early emotions, the gaze changes, the pupils (narrow or dilate), the ears rise, the lips stretch into a smile or, on the contrary, narrow, and so on :) Below are the stages of painting a portrait of a person filled with emotions such as happiness, fear, contempt or hatred, anger or anger

How to draw fear, how to draw fear with a pencil.

We start the drawing with the axial fine line, we immediately determine the dimensions of the head.

We divide center line into three equal parts

Using light lines we determine the tip of the nose, the direction of the eyebrows, and the curvature of the eyes.

Using shading we draw eyebrows and pupils. My eyes will be slightly widened (from fear:)

Using shading we sculpt the shape of the nose

We draw hair and ears for our character, apply shading on them

We draw a mouth that will be distorted, thereby conveying the emotion of fear. When a person is afraid of something, a fold forms between the eyebrows. We apply shading to the entire surface of our drawing. That's it, a frightened man is looking at you from the image

how to draw happiness on a person's face

We start the drawing by drawing a thin axial line with a pencil, determining the dimensions of the head

We divide the center line into three equal parts as in the previous stage.

Define the shape of the head with a light line

Without pressing too hard on the pencil, draw the eyebrows, nose, determine the shape of the eyes

Using shading we draw eyebrows and pupils. The eyes will be narrowed as much as possible. When a person smiles, folds form around

Draw the mouth, slightly noticeable dimples will appear on the cheeks, and pronounced cheeks will appear. We draw ears. Using shading we sculpt our entire head.

We add a hairstyle to our character and dress him up. Our drawing is ready.

How to draw contempt, arrogance

As always, we start from the center line. We immediately determine the dimensions of the model’s head.

We divide the center line into three equal parts. This will be the level of the eyebrows and nose.

Draw the outline of the head with a pencil

We draw the nose and eyebrows, outline the neck with a collar

Let's draw the eyes. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the eye shape will be slightly narrowed. We immediately apply shading on the gas, our drawing will begin to come to life.

We outline the folds around the eyes. Because when a person squints, a lot of folds form. Draw a mouth with slightly visible teeth. We outline the chin.

Draw hair and ears for our character

The final stage is to apply shading to the entire surface of our drawing; in places where the shadow passes, we apply shading more intensively. Our drawing is ready.

How to draw anger in a portrait

Draw a center line where our head will be located

Divide the axis into three parts with a pencil. The parts must be equal

Using light lines we define the tip of the nose. Using shading we draw eyebrows. The most important part of the face in this emotion is the eyebrows. They will have sharp outlines.

Let's draw the eyes. The eyebrows will hang over the eyes. Using shading we show the shape of the nose

We draw hair and ears.

Draw the mouth. The upper lip will practically not be visible. The mouth will be compressed as much as possible. We apply shading. Our drawing is ready.

The drawing is ready! In front of you is a man drawn in anger with a pencil

A drawing is a kind of indirect reflection of the world around us through the eyes of a child. By studying a child's drawing, you can understand a lot. For example, the color scheme, that is, the colors randomly chosen by a child to color a picture, speaks about his worldview. As a rule, children living under the influence of fear more often use gray, black and dark brown tones in their drawings. It is in these tones, speaking figurative language, their lives are colored.

Drawing fears can help a child get rid of them. However, you should not think that it will be enough to simply ask the child to draw his fear, and he will certainly do it.

In most cases, children's reaction to such a request is sharply negative. And this is not surprising - the child is afraid to even think about what scares him so much. And to draw on paper means for him to bring fear to life, to give it some form, appearance. Therefore, you should not force a child to draw his fear by force and scold him for stubbornness if he refuses to do this. It is better to leave this request for the time being, and then return to it again.

If the child agreed and drew his fear, this means that he was able to overcome the internal barrier. The fear shown in the drawing is almost its real embodiment for the child. Exclusively important point at this stage is the following.

It is necessary for the child to draw all his fears. An incomplete depiction of fears reduces the effectiveness of the method to zero.

A child can ask an adult how to draw fear. You can suggest, but in the most general outline- so that the visual embodiment of children's fantasy is not influenced by the subjectivity of an adult. For example, if a child asks how to draw Baba Yaga, he should answer: “Draw her the way you see!” “How do I see her?” a child may ask. “What is her face, nose?” Answer something like this: “Draw a big nose with a hook and big teeth"The adult, thus, does not impose his idea on the child, but only pushes him to ensure that his own idea of ​​the image is more clearly reflected in his consciousness.

Once the drawings (or drawing) are completed, the adult should discuss them with the child. Looking through the drawings made together, you need to ask the child whether he is now afraid or not. By carefully observing the child's voice and facial expression, you can understand how sincerely he speaks. Denial of fear must necessarily be reinforced with praise. If some of the fears remain, you should separately examine those drawings that depict frightening characters. An adult and a child can try to find some funny or amusing features in the drawing - so the image in the drawing, associated with a real image of a threat, acquires funny features in the child’s mind and becomes less threatening or completely loses its frightening symbolism.

If you can’t find funny traits, you shouldn’t invent them. It’s better to ask your child to tear up the drawing, throwing the scraps out the window or into the trash bin. By destroying the drawn villain, you will help your child overcome fear. "Now he's gone!" - tell the child and praise him for destroying the villain by tearing the drawing.

When discussing a drawing with a child, it is extremely important not to say the words “drawing”, “drawn villain”, etc. Question: “Where is Baba Yaga drawn here?” replace it with the question: “Where is Baba Yaga? Yeah, here she is!”

Help the child identify the drawing and the image of the villain - in this case, by tearing the drawing, destroying it or laughing at it, the child can easily get rid of fear.

The remaining fears should be depicted again after some time, but the attitude towards this fear should be somewhat different. You should ask the child to draw “how he is not afraid of his fear” - that is, the drawing should now contain not only the object childhood fear, but also the child himself, and in active position resistance to evil. This setting is extremely important, since on a subconscious level it acts as an additional incentive to overcome fear. A child, picturing himself in an active position of resistance to evil, automatically fixes his image in the subconscious as the image of someone who has defeated evil. Research shows that after the second stage of drawing, fear remains in only 10-15 percent of children.

Drawing, like play, is not only a reflection of the surrounding reality in the minds of children, but also its modeling, an expression of attitude towards it. Therefore, through drawings, you can better understand the interests of children, their deep, not always disclosed experiences, and take this into account when eliminating fears.

By drawing, the child gives vent to his feelings and experiences, desires and dreams, rebuilds his relationships in various situations and painlessly comes into contact with some frightening, unpleasant and traumatic images.

First of all, through drawing it is possible to eliminate fears generated by the imagination, that is, what has never happened, but can happen in the child’s imagination. Then, according to the degree of success, come fears based on real traumatic events, but which happened quite a long time ago and left a not very expressed emotional trace in the child’s memory.

The best results from drawing fears are achieved at the age of 5-11 years, at the age of active interest in drawing.

Most fears are, to one degree or another, caused by age characteristics and are temporary in nature, but, nevertheless, they require close attention and study from adults each time, then a number of appropriate measures can be taken in a timely manner and prevent their excessive growth, transition into adolescence into more or less stable personality traits that interfere with a full lifestyle and communication.

Of course, it is best for a psychologist to work with fears, because there are certain nuances that need to be taken into account and not missed. But, if you have confidence that you can handle it yourself and, most importantly, you have trust and contact with the child, then you can try to eliminate them yourself at home. Positive result and the timing depends on many factors, the main one being what kind of fear the child has and its duration.

Who gives the task to draw fear and how?

This is one of the very important points in drawing children's fear. If parents still decide to take up drawing themselves, then a friendly attitude is very necessary.

The less strict and restrictive the parents are in raising children, the more successful the drawing of fears is, while excessive strictness and widespread prohibitions can reduce its effect from the fear of not meeting the parents' expectations, drawing poorly or not drawing at all.

A parent should not judge for having fears or read instructions, encourage them to pull themselves together, show will, etc. It is important that the child feels trust and absolute acceptance. You need to be consistent in your judgments and confident in your actions and actions. Required condition is faith in the effectiveness of the applied method of eliminating fears.

If you know what fears are bothering your baby, then you can start working, if not, then you need to identify what exactly is bothering the baby.

How to detect fears in children

You can detect fears in children by inviting them to play on their own. The props for the game can be very diverse: a house made of cubes, in it there is a bed, a table, a wardrobe, a mansion in which various animals live, Christmas trees imitating a forest, a broom left by Baba Yaga, a drum, a tank, a cannon, a robot, rag dolls, worn on the hand, ordinary dolls depicting people, animals and fairy-tale characters, medical items, etc.

The child’s attitude towards them will reveal those fears that were forgotten or hidden. Stiffness, unnatural behavior, and tension indicate both an inability to play and fear, which is expressed by appropriate facial expressions and avoidance of various characters or objects in the game. For example, a child willingly puts a rag fox and a bunny in his hands, but not only does not notice the same toy wolf, but also categorically refuses to include it in the game, which is explained by fear of this character. Stopping play in the absence of an adult indicates a fear of loneliness, etc.

After the game, you can talk with the child in order to identify fears.

You can start asking preschoolers about fears during the game itself, as if by the way, interspersing questions in game breaks. You need to be next to the playing child, squatting, if this Small child. The main thing is to be calm and not to make emotional or semantic accents in the pronunciation of certain words, and not to instill fear with the phrase: "Tell me, are you afraid...", and they ask: "Tell me how you feel about...", - and are waiting for an answer. After a short pause, they move on to identifying the next fear.

Drawing fears

After fears have become known, you need to organize their drawing. Fears are drawn with pencils, felt-tip pens or paints. The most important thing is that children are given the opportunity to choose, making the drawing process easier.

Household members should be warned not to interrupt drawing.

Tell: “Draw what you are afraid of, each fear on a separate sheet of paper.”. If a child has questions about how to draw fear, then you can explain it to him. For example, fear of loneliness - draw yourself and at the same time everything that you are afraid of when you are left alone (i.e. the child materializes his fears and fears). Typically, the fear of attack is reproduced in the form of adults behaving aggressively. The fear of getting sick or becoming infected is represented by the hospital or germs. Fear of the dark is usually a slightly shaded room where the unsavory characters of a child’s fantasy appear. Fears of animals are drawn for each of them separately. This also applies to fairy tale characters etc.

There is no need to promise that this will necessarily get rid of fears, since increased expectations regarding results can serve as an obstacle to overcoming fears. It is best to say that drawing fears will help overcome them and that it does not matter how they are depicted, the main thing is to draw them all without exception, each fear on a separate sheet. It is better to draw completely independently, without the help of adults.

The very fact of receiving a task in this way organizes the children’s activities and mobilizes them to fight their fears.

It's not easy to start drawing fears. It often takes several days before the child decides to begin the task. This is how one overcomes the inner psychological barrier- fear of fear.

Deciding to draw means directly coming into contact with fear, meeting it face to face and, with a focused, volitional effort, keeping it in memory until it is depicted in the drawing. At the same time, awareness of the conventions of depicting fear in a drawing in itself helps to reduce its traumatic sound. In the process of drawing, the object of fear is no longer a frozen mental formation, since it is consciously manipulated and creatively transformed as artistic image. The interest that appears when drawing gradually extinguishes the emotion of fear, replacing it with strong-willed concentration and satisfaction from the task completed. Invisible support is also provided by the very fact of the participation of the parent or psychologist who gave this task, to whom you can then entrust your drawings and thereby, as it were, free yourself from the fears depicted on them.

After some time, you can show the child his drawing and ask him to tell what is drawn on it. It is better to start with more easily eliminated fears - water, open space, the sight of blood (for boys), doctors, diseases, scary dreams and animals (for girls).

It’s good if all family members are present, the drawing is shown to them, while the child talks about what is shown in the drawing, that is, he specifies his fear. Previously, this was difficult to achieve; fear arose from just an idea and could not be expressed in words. Such an obstacle only increased internal tension and kept the fear in a fixed state.

Now the child speaks quite freely about fear, consciously managing it in a conversation with a person whom he trusts and who can understand his experiences. It is important not to be shy and to say everything as it is; fear will still be eliminated - if not with drawings, then in other ways.

If not all drawings have a positive effect, then the drawing can be put aside without comment or accompanied by the words: "Nothing", "Everything has its time", "Go ahead", "We'll come back to him later" etc.

After the discussion of fears is over, those drawings for which a positive effect has been achieved are named and shown. The author should be praised, given a friendly pat on the shoulder, a handshake, or a gift of a toy. And then I must say that the drawings from his former fears will be “located” in a drawer or closet, “locked” there forever, like a genie in a bottle.

After some time (1-2 weeks), you can return to these drawings again, but with the words: “Now draw it so that it shows that you are not afraid.”. This implies that you need to draw not only the object of fear, as for the first time, but also yourself as not being afraid. Let’s say it’s not the child who runs away from Baba Yaga, but she from him; he no longer cries in pain; fights the Dragon; floats on water and flies on an airplane. Here the effect of suggestion is obvious - an attitude to overcome fear in the imagination by means of a specific, given graphic image. All the child’s mental resources are mobilized to actively counteract fears in the life-affirming, active position of the Creator. The phenomenon of group support also works. The child is no longer alone with his fears - they have come out, lost their aura of exclusivity, and have faded after their previous image. In addition, parents create a mentally favorable field of support and faith in his ability to cope with fears.

The question arises: is it not possible to immediately invite children to draw themselves as not afraid, to save time, so to speak? Yes, you can, but the effect will be lower and not as lasting. It takes time for the child to overcome the internal psychological barrier of uncertainty and fear of his fears, then there will be a gradual de-actualization of fear in his mind and faith in his strengths, capabilities, and abilities will develop.

Good luck to you parents in helping your children!