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A look at artistic growth through Lowenfeld's stages of development in self-portraits with consideration for some non-universal factors. This annotated collection was collected from both male and female students in grades 1st through 4th during the first week of school. They were all given the same prompt to draw a picture of themselves and add something that tells the observer about the artist.
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a drawing of a man with glasses on his head and eyes drawn by someone's hand
Girl Looking In Mirror Sketch
Developmental Stages
The Observer
Colored Pencil
Pictures To Draw
Elementary School
Infinity Tattoo
Self Portrait
Elementary Schools
Age 8, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist. This student shows her struggles to complete her face with the addition of her newly acquired glasses. She has a very slow work rate. It's difficult to gage her developmental stage from what she's completed.
a child's drawing of a boy with glasses and a crown on his head
Kids Drawings
Drawing For Kids
Realism
Age 9, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist. Some characteristics of the schematic stage are evident by the symbols of corner sun but also shows first phase of Dawning realism evidenced by spatial perspective and overlapping.
a drawing of two people standing next to each other in the middle of a page
Scary Story
First Week Of School
New Student
Drawing Prompt
English Language Learners
Human Form
Scary Stories
New Students
Age 8, boy, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done the first week of school to show the observer something about the artist. The preschematic stage is evident by the use of circular images and lines to represent human form. This new student is an english language learner. This may be why his art tells a scary story, because he did not fully understand the drawing prompt. His paper has holes in it over the figure on right from pencil stabbing.
Age 8, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done the first week of school to show the observer something about the artist. The preschematic stage is evident by the use of circular images and lines to represent human form. From the artist oral explanation, "she likes to play outside". Her use of color is more realistic than emotional, which is not as typical in this stage. Play Outside, First Week, She Likes
Play Outside
First Week
She Likes
Age 8, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done the first week of school to show the observer something about the artist. The preschematic stage is evident by the use of circular images and lines to represent human form. From the artist oral explanation, "she likes to play outside". Her use of color is more realistic than emotional, which is not as typical in this stage.
a child's drawing of a man and woman in front of a building with the words orange arena on it
Spontaneous Drawing
Facial Features
Student Work
Student Gifts
Age 8, boy, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done the first week of school to show the observer something about the artist. This gifted student's work is always innovative. He is not concerned with the art of his peers. He works the whole class without interruption and truly seems to love every project. His Dawning realism stage is evident by overlapping and less spontaneous drawing plan, but still uses a schema for his facial features.
a child's drawing of a man with a smile on his face and arms
Scarecrow
A Smile
Age 8, boy, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done the first week of school to show the observer something about the artist. A characteristics of the schematic stage is evident with the stiff scarecrow body with the appropriate amount of lines to represent fingers. His attention to object detail of his backpack shows the observer how much he likes his new pack. He omits his nose like many students in this stage, but does add a smile and bangs.
a child's drawing of a person standing in front of a rainbow arch
Lollipop Tree
Sky Line
Plus Sign
Leaf Flower
Love Rainbow
Leaf Flowers
Age 8, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist. The main characteristics of the schematic stage are evident with the repetition of symbols like bold trunked lollipop tree, 2 leaf flower, and the way up top blue sky line. The "plus sign" birds above the rainbow differ from the usual "m" bird symbols. The central figure is on a baseline of flowers, showing off how much she loves rainbows.
a child's drawing of a girl holding an umbrella with words above her head
Face And Body
Cheerleading
Age 8, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist. The main characteristics of the schematic stage are evident with the repetition of symbols like the corner sun and stiff scarecrow like face and body. Her use of double arms is meant to show that she is both a cheerleader and a dancer. The blue of her sky covers the entire atmosphere. If she had more time she was going to shade it all in darker
a child's drawing of a girl standing in the grass
Show Us
Pencil Drawings
Age 7, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist.The main characteristics of the schematic stage are evident with the repetition of symbols for familiar objects, and the use of the base-line. Her sky is squeezed up into a line so high we can hardly see it. Her figure appears flat and stiff like a scarecrow. She also wants to show us her ponytail, which she hangs off the side of her head.
a child's drawing of a girl surrounded by oranges and blue circles in the sky
Dissociation Art Mirror
Body Dysformia Art Mirror
Funky Art
Geometric Tattoo
Eyebrows
Colored Pencils
Art Inspo
Age 6, girl, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist. The objects in this work are floating around the head, which is indicitive of a pre-schematic stage in artistic development. The only details missing from the face are the eyebrows, which shows the schematic stage. But the lack of the baseline proves that she has yet to reach schematic stage.The girl's message is that she loves pizza.
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Aurora sleeping beauty
Lollipop tree
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Developmental stages
Student gifts
a drawing of a man with a red hat on top of his head and arms
Hat Stands
Cardinals
Age 7, boy, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist. This student seems to have developed a schema, a set of symbols for his hat and his t-shirt His face is missing the details of a dawning realism but does seem cartoonish in the eyes like some of his peers. The importance of the Cardinals hat stands out as it has the most color.
a child's drawing of a girl in front of a blue sky with clouds
School Elementary
Public School
One Week
Age 9, girl, 8" x 10", public school elementary, colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done the first week of school to show the observer something about the artist. Schematic stage details are the symbols of the corner sun and baseline along the bottom. She also did a highly detailed face which could be considered her dawning realism or "gang stage". Some of her table mates did an enlarged face with smaller body, showing she may be anxious to conform to those next to her, or them to her.
a child's drawing of a boy with the number twenty five on his shirt
Childrens Drawings
This Boy
Field Hockey
Boys Playing
Art Therapy
Age 9, boy, 8"x 10", public elementary school, pencil and colored pencil, 8/2017. Self-portrait done to show the observer something about the artist. This boy plays field hockey and shows us his uniform and stick. He is still in Lowenfeld's preschematic stage although he is already 9, evidenced by drawing a figure with stick arms and legs and the absence of a baseline. Notice his emerging schematic stage by the details of his shirt.
a child's drawing of a boy standing in front of a cat and bird
Game Controller
Third Grade
Age 9, boy, public elementary school, colored pencil, 8" x 10" , 8/2017 Students were to draw a self portrait that tells the observer something about the artist during the first week of school. This student is in the dawning realism stage of artistic development shown by his ability to overlap, & to add realistic details like the side table and the game controller. He has also added a horizontal line behind the figure instead of just a base line.