Child Head Drawing. Use art to help your child express strong feelings. Children sometimes revert to earlier stages and in the same picture might draw one person using a tadpole schema and another.
From about the age of 12-18 months the average child will be capable of making marks on paper Cox 1993. The position of family members around the hole reveals who the child feels closest to or how the family coped with the loss. That is why we need to learn the correct proportions of a childs head before trying to draw it.
Again an almost unanimity among artists is to draw children with big hair usually with a lot of movement and life of its own.
Shapes that resemble letters T V and H. Insecurity and inner-conflict can often be identified in the details of a self-drawing. With advancing age men lose hair. In drawing a very young baby draw the ball and plane with the facial plan much shorter.
