How to train children to draw is a science. Eight-year-old children have grown up and have their own views on painting. Let's see how to teach 8-year-old children to draw.
Seven or eight years old
At the age of seven, children will begin to draw portraits from three angles: front, side and back. Then at the age of eight, children will begin to draw portraits of people in action.
Try to let children copy less characters from TV or anime.
After the age of seven, children's paintings began to become understandable by adults.
When children reach the age of seven or eight, they can give some guidance in painting. (See here, are you finally relieved? Haha) Guide children to observe what they are interested in, guide them to think more, and combine rich manual and entertainment activities with the appreciation of a large number of excellent works and picture books to expand their horizons and enhance their aesthetic ability. At the same time, try to provide children with a variety of painting tools and methods.
When you draw in front of children, please remember the following points:
1. Children's paintings are completely different from those of adults. The painting that adults are interested in and appreciate is completely different from the painting behavior of children. Therefore, it is inappropriate to judge and appreciate children's paintings from the perspective of adults.
2. Don't point at children when adults draw, it will interfere with children's drawing.
The best time to teach children to draw is after 6 years old. Before that, don't teach children any shapes, pictures, stick figures, colors, etc. These paintings of the adult world are not children's paintings. If you teach your children to draw these, they won't be able to draw their own pictures. At the same time, teaching children to draw images too early will gradually hinder their freedom to express happiness according to their own feelings and wishes, as well as some basic abilities developed through painting.
4. Children's paintings can't be evaluated by quality, nor can they be used for similar psychological analysis to try to judge children's character, which is totally meaningless. Children's graffiti is just a way to express their feelings like crying and laughing. A child paints to express his inner feelings or thoughts, even though the technology is not mature, but through this free way of painting, the desire to express is satisfied and the pleasure is experienced, which is the happiness of expression.
5. So how to communicate with children in painting? Children's painting is not for "seeing", but for "listening", that is to say, children's painting is something that can only be understood after "listening". For children, only when their paintings are "listened" and understood, will they have the pleasure of expression and their painting behavior be meaningful.
6. Please remember that no matter who has the innate painting ability, this ability is naturally cultivated and acquired by children in the process of growing up, and children of different ages will naturally show their painting ability corresponding to their age. The most important thing for adults is to protect their children's ability and create an environment and atmosphere for their painting activities.
7. Children's painting is not taught, but cultivated. It is meaningful to systematically teach painting knowledge and skills when children are six to nine years old. Before that, teaching in an adult way was all encouragement, but it would destroy children's talent. Every child is a natural painter in his early childhood.
8. After doodling, children sometimes destroy their own works, such as cutting off the painted car and the painted villain and letting them fight. This is actually a child's development of modeling ability, and parents should be happy.
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