What characterizes the drawing of a 3-year-old child. We determine the psychological state of the child by colors

In order for you to look deeper into the soul of your child and understand how he lives, what he breathes, what he thinks about, what he dreams about while in the family, if you do not have the opportunity to consult with the right specialist, spend with him one of the adapted us, especially for parents of options - a variant of the drawing technique "My family", which reveals intra-family interpersonal relationships.

Drawing technique "My family"

Give your child a sheet of paper and a set of colored pencils (black, blue, brown, red, yellow, green). Since this test is adapted for parents and will not be evaluated by a specialist, a set of pencils may not contain 6 colors, but much more.

Have your child draw a picture of your family. After that, do something, pretending that you are not up to the drawing. Let him feel at least the illusion of freedom. Your gaze involuntarily makes the son or daughter "weigh" everything in the picture in favor of you. Let the painter be alone with himself. Nevertheless, "working", you need to imperceptibly for the child to observe how he draws, what he draws, where he draws.

After finishing drawing, clarify some details with leading questions. Then analyze the data of the drawing test according to the scheme below. And if you learn how to correctly interpret these data, you will be able not only to identify the nuances, but also their shades, the whole gamut of feelings experienced by the child in his family. Everything that yours carefully hides, everything that hides somewhere in the depths and is not able to tell you aloud, everything that “boils” and “boils” in him, everything that torments and worries him daily, suddenly unexpectedly, like a genie from a bottle, it “bursts” out and freezes with a “silent cry” on paper. And, freezing, silently screaming, he begs you for help. And this "cry" should be heard by each of the parents. After all, it would hardly occur to us, parents, that very often we are the culprits of all the troubles of the child.

Analyzing the drawing, it is necessary to pay attention to a number of details: the sequence of the task, the plot of the drawing, how the family members are located, how the family members are grouped, the degree of proximity and the degree of their remoteness from each other, the location of the child among them, whom the family begins to draw, on whom it ends, whom it “forgot” to depict, whom it “added”, who is taller and who is shorter, who is dressed, who is drawn in outline, who is drawn to the details, to the color scheme, etc.

Let us dwell on some features of the analysis of the figure.

1. The sequence of the task. As a rule, after receiving the installation, he immediately begins to draw all family members and only then the details that complement the drawing. If, for some unknown reason, an artist suddenly focuses his attention on anything other than his family, "forgetting" to draw his relatives and himself, or draws people after depicting minor objects and objects, you need to think about why he does this and what lies behind all this. What is the reason for his indifference to his loved ones? Why does he delay the time of depicting them? Most often, the "casket" is opened by leading questions and clarifying shades of family relationships, and other methods. As a rule, the absence of family members in the drawing or the delay in their depiction is one of the symptoms of the child's mental discomfort in the family and a sign of conflicting family relationships in which the artist is also involved.

2. The plot of the picture. Most of the time, the plot is very simple. The child depicts his family in the form of a group photo, in which all family members are present or someone is not. All present are on the ground, stand on the floor, or, for some reason, having lost their support, hang in the air. Sometimes in the picture, in addition to people, flowers bloom, grass turns green, bushes and trees grow. Some place their relatives in their own home among furniture and familiar things. It is not uncommon for someone to be at home, and someone on the street. In addition to the frozen monumental group portraits, there are also drawings in which all family members are busy with business and, of course, the most important -. These drawings are usually overflowing with expression and dynamism.

As mentioned above, sometimes they simply refuse to draw or confine themselves to some, especially seemingly abstract plot, where there is no family (see Fig. 1 below). But this is only at first glance. Drawing of a family "without a family" - a child's cry of protest and the distress signal given by him in this way - SOS. In the drawing we propose, a ten-year-old girl, jealous of her relatives for the younger children in the family, hid all family members in a house behind thick walls. She placed herself, like Carlson, somewhere on the roof (a detailed interpretation of the figure will be given below). When yours draws a "no family" family, drop things and solve the charade. Think - why? Build bridges. Otherwise, you may "miss" something significant in your child and lose the "key" to him.

If a child’s drawing of a family is associated with something pleasant, with warm, tender memories, it illuminates all family members or one of them with a bright sun - a symbol of affection, kindness and love. If there are dark clouds over the group portrait of the family or it is pouring rain, then most likely this is due to the child's discomfort.

3. The sequence of location of family members. Usually the first person depicts either his most beloved family member, or, in his opinion, the most significant and authoritative in the house. If he considers himself the most significant, he, without hiding it, draws his figure first. The sequence of arrangement of other family members and their serial numbers indicate the attitude of the child towards them, or rather, their role in the family in the eyes of the child or their attitude, in the opinion of the painter, to him. The higher the serial number of the depicted family member, the lower his authority with the child. Usually the most recent relative drawn has the lowest authority. Therefore, if he intuitively feels himself rejected and unnecessary by his parents, then he portrays himself after everyone else.

4. Sizes of figures of family members. The more authoritative in the eyes of the child is the member of the family portrayed by him, the higher his figure and the greater the size. Quite often, young children do not even have enough paper to accommodate the entire figure completely, entirely. With a low authority of a relative, the size of his figure, as a rule, is much less than the real one in comparison with the rest of the family members. Therefore, the neglected and rejected usually portray themselves as barely noticeable, undersized, tiny little boys with a finger or Thumbelina (see Fig. 2 below), emphasizing with all this their uselessness and insignificance. In contrast to the "rejected" idols of the family do not spare space for depicting their figures, drawing themselves on a par with mom or dad and even above them (see Figure 3 below).

5. The size of the space and its dimensions between the image of individual family members indicate either their emotional disunity or their emotional closeness. The farther the figures are located from each other, the greater their emotional disunity, as a rule, reflecting a conflict situation in the family. In some drawings, the sense of disunity of loved ones is emphasized by the inclusion in the free space between family members of some extraneous objects that further divide people. To reduce disunity, he often fills in the gaps, in his opinion, with things and objects that unite close relatives, or draws among family members unfamiliar faces to him.

With emotional closeness, all relatives in the family are drawn almost close to each other and are practically not separated. The closer he portrays himself in relation to any member of the family, the higher his degree of attachment to this relative. The farther away from a family member, the less his attachment to that member. When he considers himself rejected, he is separated by a considerable space from others.

6. The location of the child in the figure- a source of important information about his position in the family. When he is in the center, between mom and dad, or draws himself first at the head of the family, this means that he feels needed and necessary in the house. As a rule, he places himself next to the one to whom he is most attached. If we see in the picture that he depicted himself after all his brothers and sisters, away from his parents, then this is most often just a sign of his jealousy for other children living in the family, in relation to his beloved mother or father, and maybe both together, and, distancing himself from everyone else, the artist tells us that he considers himself superfluous and unnecessary in the house.

7. When for some reason he "forgets" to draw himself, look for a good reason in your family relationships. They are usually not quite exemplary and, obviously, painful for the child. The child's image of a family without himself is a signal of conflict between him and someone in your house or the whole family as a whole, and in this regard, the child does not have a sense of community with other people close to him. With his drawing in this way, the artist expresses his reaction of protest against the rejection of him in the family. Intuitively guessing that he has been rejected by you for a long time, that you have almost “forgotten” him, taking care of others in the family, he “revenges” you on paper, not realizing that by refusing to draw himself, he gives out his secrets, involuntarily throwing out the discomfort bubbling in him .

8. When for some reason "forgets" to suddenly draw one of the parents or other real members of his family, then, most likely, none other than the "forgotten" relative of the child is the source of his discomfort, worries and torment. Deliberately "forgetting" to include such a loved one in your family, as if showing us the way out of the conflict situation and to defuse the negative family atmosphere. Quite often, in this way, the artist “eliminates” competitors, trying to extinguish, even for a moment, the jealousy that boils in him for other children or for parents of his own sex. Especially stubbornly "revenges" and does not draw on paper that family member who constantly suppresses and humiliates him in the house. Therefore, usually the question: "Where is this family member?" - , continuing to "revenge" him, he responds with solid fables, absurdities and absurdities, such as the fact that this relative takes out the trash, washes the floor, stands in the corner .. In short, in this way, albeit naively, he dreams of taking revenge, although would mentally humiliate a loved one who constantly humiliates him really every day.

9. When for some reason "supplements" his family with non-existent relatives or strangers, then by this he tries to fill the vacuum in the feelings that were not received in the family, or use them instead of a buffer that softens the feeling of his inferiority in the circle of relatives. Often this vacuum is filled by those individuals who, in their opinion, are able to establish close contacts with them and enable them to somehow satisfy their needs for communication. Therefore, "modeling" the composition of his family, he involuntarily offers us its improved, improved and chosen option by him, and not by anyone else.

In addition to strangers, the artist often "complements" his family with the animal world: we see birds, animals, but most of all, cats and dogs, devoted and necessary to man. And if in these "additions" there is no identification with a real member of the child's family, and if cats and dogs ... are simply fictional, the artist does not actually have them, but he dreams that they would be and replace his relatives and friends, then it means that he longs to be needed by someone. From birth, he needs to be loved and that he, in return, also loved someone passionately. And if you did not satisfy him with your love, then he intuitively looks for love on the side. Therefore, think more seriously about the purpose for which yours, who seems to be not deprived of anything, stubbornly every time on all the drawings of his family stamps the ghosts of cats and dogs that do not exist and do not live in the house, which even you did not promise to buy him. Think seriously. And regard this as a symptom that tells you about the lack of the necessary communication and the lack of tenderness and affection that yours feels. Think about it: are you to blame for this deficit?

10. When for some reason, instead of a family, he draws only one of himself, "forgetting" to draw all the others, this most often indicates that he does not feel like a full-fledged member of his family and feels that there is simply not enough space for him in it.

Quite often, in the drawings of oneself, the rejection of the child by family members can be seen through the emotional background and gloomy colors. The loneliness of a rejected person at an age when they are not yet able to do without their parents is a formidable sign of an unfavorable situation in the family for your child. Sometimes the artist, when depicting a family, specifically singles out only one himself in order to emphasize his significance for the rest. This is most often done by family idols or those who do not hide their egocentrism. It differs from those rejected by involuntary self-admiration, which is usually seen in the coloring and detailing of clothes or in secondary background objects that create a festive mood.

11. To conduct a more detailed analysis, consider in detail how he draws faces and other parts of the body. The drawing of the head is especially informative. When you see that the author for some reason skips parts of the face known to him in the drawing or generally depicts a face "without a face", that is, apart from the contour of the face, there is nothing on it (no eyes, no mouth, no nose ...), then this is most often an expression of protest by the artist in relation to the family member depicted by him in this way, because of which, obviously, he is constantly overwhelmed with negative emotions.

When an artist depicts his face in this way, a face without eyes, without a mouth, without a nose, then this is a sign of his alienation in the family and a violation of communication with many people.

When only one eye is visible in the drawing from all parts of the face, then most likely you are aware that this family member is watching and watching him all the time, not allowing any of his misdeeds, childish pranks and pampering. And this relative "I see everything" is the source of most conflict situations for the child. A drawing of a close "I hear everything" can be similar, in which the author is absorbed in the image of ears that exceed the size of Cheburashka's ears. When only the mouth is singled out from all the parts, then, most likely, the "owner of the mouth", like a press, puts pressure on the artist, "educating" him with endless notations, moralizing within the framework of his own morality, and cultivates fear in him.

When you see that in the drawing the artist focuses most of all on the head and thoroughly draws all parts of the face, preferring the face to everything else, then, most obviously, he once again shows you how significant the closest relative depicted by him in this way is for him. And if yours portrays himself this way, then this is just admiring himself or one of the signs that indicates how seriously he is concerned about his appearance. Often, in this way, the artist brightens up his own physical "defect". And if a girl draws her face like this, then most often she simply imitates her mother, who, because of coquetry, constantly tints her lips, powders her nose, and smoothes her hair before her eyes.

In addition to the head, drawn hands can also give you great information. When their length immediately catches the eye, then most likely they belong to one of the close family members of the child who is aggressive towards him. The author sometimes depicts such a relative without arms at all, trying, at least symbolically, but to extinguish aggression.

When we see the child himself armless in the picture, then, most likely, in this way the artist wants to inform us that he is completely powerless and does not have the right to vote in the family.

When in the picture he emphasizes the length of not strangers, but his own hands or draws them raised up, then by this he shows his aggressiveness or his desire to be aggressive in order to somehow establish himself in the family.

12. The color scheme of the picture- a kind of indicator of the palette of feelings radiated by a child when remembering loved ones whom he portrays. Features and nuances of children's emotional attitude to individual members of their family or to the whole family as a whole, the romance of their attachments and carefully concealed dislike, doubts, anxieties and hopes seem to be "coded" in the color that each character is decorated with. And you, the parents, need to find the cipher to the code in order to come to the rescue in time, generously stretching out your whole hand, desperately clutching at a thin straw, for one reason or another, drooping under the pressure of hard everyday life and everyday troubles, your child.

As a rule, everything that is loved and liked by the child is drawn by him in warm, affectionate colors. Their affection and romantic feelings for someone present in the picture, without knowing it themselves, "stick out" with a bright, juicy color that involuntarily attracts your gaze. Usually, the one that the child likes is dressed up by him in a special festive outfit, which in its coloring resembles a rainbow or the clothes of a fairy-tale princess who had a dream in a magical dream.

And even if yours does not use the whole gamut of colors available to him, he still, wishing it or not, but singles out at least one extraordinary stroke that catches your eye of his beloved relative among all the others.

Mothers are especially beautiful. They express their love for them by designing for them such models of fantastic clothes, the patents for which, probably, fashion magazines would have bought from them. In addition to dresses, skirts, blouses, where there are ruffles, embroideries, frills, many mothers have earrings in their ears, beads on their necks and hairpins in their hair. Almost all mothers are in fashionable shoes and with unusual hairstyles. And if you look at the color of their hair, then most often you will say: this does not happen - since when the hair is orange, yellow and even blue. This does not happen in life, but it happens in a drawing, when in a flood of tender feelings that splash out in this way.

Beloved dads also have something to wear. And very often their outfits are practically not inferior to their mother's. The child also brightly dresses up all other relatives who are not indifferent to him, drawing the smallest details of their clothes. When a child in the family is happy, he is also festively dressed up and radiates warm tones.

The cold tones depicted by the child are like red at a traffic light signaling "stop". Stop for a minute. Think what it is
Means. Ask yourself mentally: "Why?"

Cold tones, as a rule, are witnesses of a conflict relationship between a child and a member of his family drawn by him with these tones. The black color is especially informative, the usual black color, most often carrying information about the child's emotional rejection of the relative in the picture whom he depicted to them. And this rejection can be overt or covert. About a clear rejection, in addition to color, a number of details will tell you. You will have to guess about the hidden, unraveling the labyrinths of the child's feelings. And if for some reason a relative whom he loves is suddenly painted in black, then, most likely, in this way, the painter involuntarily splashes onto paper everything that secretly worries, excites, torments him in relation to the member of his family depicted by him. And no matter how in these cases the artist tries to assure you that he painted from memory, almost from life, and his father really has a favorite shirt - “black”, and his mother also prefers “black” to all colors, and her sister really braids are "black", you need to carefully check and understand the reason for his "realism". Especially when in the same picture other relatives are fabulously dressed and their hair is fabulously painted.

As a rule, the reason for realism is that, adoring mom or dad, no matter how much he wants, he cannot and is not able to come to terms with the fact that dad drinks, rowdy, is a source of scandals, and mom, busy with endless affairs, does not notices the child's devoted love. The sister is just jealous. And suddenly she gets more tenderness and affection ...

A signal of distress and trouble for your child can also serve as contour drawing by him of individual members of his family or the whole family as a whole, even when the artist depicts the contours in different colors, and not with a simple pencil.

So, analyzing the features of the interpretation of the picture "My Family", you seemed to recognize your child again and realized that yours is a person, albeit still small, unintelligent, but a person looking at the world with his own clear eyes, having his own special angle of view on life. And this angle of view should be known to you. Otherwise, it will suddenly turn out that you and yours see everything differently and with different eyes and often speak different languages. And in order for your language to be the same, you need to know its symbolism for your child, at least in the picture.

Let's look again at what means, details, nuances the artist tells you about his role in his own family and about the relationships that have developed in it between other family members.

1. Emotional Attachment a child to one of the parents, as a rule, is depicted in such a way that it is close to this parent or next to him. The amount of space between them is minimal. Often their hands are stretched out to each other, emphasizing the complete agreement between the parent and the child who adores him. Almost always, the artist tries to draw the beloved parent as one of the first in the drawing. The figure of this parent is usually taller than all other figures, or at least exceeds the height of the child, thereby, as it were, giving the young artist a kind of security that is understandable to him alone, necessary for life. To make the parent look even more impressive, they often place him on a pedestal specially invented by them. The parent, adored by the child, is not only carefully depicted by him, but also dressed up in the most magical outfits, which, in terms of brightness of colors, are much brighter than the brightest clothes of the artist. There are times when the outfit of the artist and the best mom in the world or the most beautiful dad in the world are identical. During the period of the first romantic love for parents, girls usually draw themselves next to their dads, and boys - closer to their mothers. During the period of the child's imitation of the parents of the same sex, this pattern changes and the girls are already close to their mothers, and the boys are close to their fathers. Moreover, the parent, adored by the child, is not drawn with contours and strokes, but emerges literally to the details.

When for some reason, suddenly drawing oneself next to an adored parent, one involuntarily leaves an empty gap between this “row”, then, most likely, this gap is a reflection of an invisible barrier between two loving people. Most often, this barrier is the character traits of the parent, pushing the child away from himself and forcing the young artist to keep a certain distance, like on a leash, when communicating with the parent.

His dissatisfaction is usually expressed in black or at least one gloomy stroke. Take a look at the drawing of a teenage girl (see figure 4 below). Here, the black color of the adored dad's trousers testifies to the child's worries about the fact that dad began to drink alcohol.

When the affection of the child is mutual, he is happy, reaching all the peaks of bliss.

When a child's love is unrequited, it is an unsmoldering source of mental discomfort for a young artist. Therefore, analyzing the drawing and "figuring out" who the child needs the most, you try to take a step towards him. Let him feel how necessary he is.

2. Rejection of the child in the family(emotional rejection). When he feels superfluous and unnecessary, outcast in his family, he either simply does not want and does not want to draw his family, or
draws her, forgetting to draw himself. In some cases, the artist places his small and nondescript figure away from everyone, thus emphasizing his loneliness among relatives. Quite often, between a distant child and members of his family, there are some unnecessary objects that increase the disunity of the drawn people. Often an empty gap is suddenly filled with those relatives who do not exist, or who really exist, but are very distant. The role of a buffer is also often played by cats and dogs.

When he feels superfluous and unnecessary in his family, his figure is the smallest, his clothes are gloomy and inconspicuous. Such one often simply depicts himself with contours and strokes, without dwelling on the details, drawing himself at the end of the plot. In those cases when, in spite of everything, he is nevertheless attached to one of the parents or to both at once, he paints them in warm tones, without stinting on affectionate colors. And these warm tones, in contrast to the cold tones that the artist depicts, are witnesses to the abyss that has already formed or has begun to form between the child and his family.

In figure 5 (see below), a six-year-old girl, offended by the coldness of her parents and considering herself unnecessary to them, drew them festively and beautifully, deliberately "forgetting" to draw herself next to them. At the request of the experimenter, she then nevertheless finished drawing her figure, depicting it with a contour and a black pencil, reducing the actual size. Then, after thinking for a moment, she suddenly brightened herself with joy and drew grass. And her whole appearance in the picture now told everyone: look, look how small I am. I still need to be loved. And if the parents do not understand this, let at least the sun replace them.

As a rule, outcasts usually "forget" to draw the member of their family who, in their opinion, rejects them.

3. Conflict situation in the family. It is known that the younger and more sensitive, the more often he considers himself the culprit of conflicts in his family, regarding them as retribution for pampering, disobedience and children's sins. The child, feeling guilty, is rejected in his own eyes, so his drawings almost always resemble similar drawings with emotional rejection of children in the family. Most often, the artist "forgets" to draw that of the relatives, because of whom, as he believes, the conflict arose. And if, nevertheless, he draws that person, in order to draw attention to him, he depicts him above or below everyone standing nearby, in cold, mournful colors. Often, in a conflict situation in a family, all relatives are drawn only with contours, and their disunity is visible in the fact that they are all separated from each other by unnecessary objects, empty gaps, as if they do not exist all together, but each with himself.

When, during conflicts, he suddenly “forgets” to draw himself, then by this, as it were, he punishes himself. When, unexpectedly for you, he depicts himself next to those relatives for whom he does not have warm feelings, then in this way he most often wants to reduce, neutralize, and maybe completely hush up the conflict.

4. Jealousy towards one of the parents in the family. When he feels jealousy for one of his parents, he tries to disguise it by suddenly “forgetting” to suddenly draw an “unnecessary” parent or, drawing him, pushes him into the background by all means. As a rule, the "interfering" parent is much shorter than everyone else, nondescript and sloppy dressed. Often a child has the patience only to depict him at least with contours. The “interfering” parent in the figure is most often “inactive”, while the beloved is busy with a common task with the child.

5. Jealousy for brothers and sisters. The harder it is for a child to cope with a sudden feeling of rivalry towards other children in the family, the more clearly he betrays this feeling, despite the disguise. Usually the younger one is jealous of the older one, and the older one is jealous of the younger child in the house. But the hardest thing is for the average: his love for his parents is shared with him by two at once - both the youngest and the oldest. It is even more difficult for little jealous people in large families. Often a brother is jealous of mom and dad for his sister, a sister is jealous of her brother. In short, in any family with several children, there is always a soil on which jealousy grows. And you, parents, must remember this in order to uproot even its first sprouts.

Usually the one to whom they are jealous is drawn close to their parents or close to them. Often a drawing begins with this child in order to draw your attention to the "pet"; a jealous person or carefully, literally to the details, outlines his entire figure, increasing his height and dressing him up in flashy clothes, once again emphasizing how the “darling” lives well in the family, or, forgetting about all the precautions and “cracking down” on his “tormentor” "at least on paper, depicts him with contours in mourning colors to make it clear to you how the "favorite" is unpleasant to the artist himself. If jealousy is so strong that yours is unable to cope with himself, he inadvertently suddenly “forgets” to include either a brother or a sister in his family circle, or even both at once, although he remembers their existence in the house. There is another option .. To attract the attention of parents, a jealous person, carefully drawing brothers and sisters, leaves no room for himself in the drawing or depicts his fragile figure away from everyone, emphasizing that he is superfluous.

If there are several children in your family and one of them during the test in the drawing only depicts brothers and sisters next to you, “forgetting” to draw himself, or draws himself away from everyone, think about what is the reason for the young artist’s discomfort and is it your fault.

6. Incomplete family. Perhaps the most severe trauma in childhood is the divorce of parents. The child simply does not understand how his beloved dad can do it (most often dad leaves) or mom, without whom
it is generally impossible to live, to leave home, and for a long time, forever. And somewhere in the depths of his soul, considering himself the culprit of the events, he wants and dreams of returning the past, placing everything in the old, former, places so convenient for him.

In addition, he wants to hide the conflict from outsiders, especially when you are not conducting the drawing test. Therefore, usually all family members are present in the figure, even if they are already former. Moreover, the parent who does not live in the house is portrayed last, after lengthy reflections, pauses, nibbling pencils. The child, like Hamlet, has to make a choice: "to be or not to be"... draw... or not worth it... And if the choice is made to draw anyway, the missing family member is drawn as if he is real and very often even bears many resemblances to the artist himself. Often such a member of the family is depicted as a vague outline, and between him and everyone else there are various objects, pets, neighbors, relatives and friends or friendly strangers - the phenomena of the magical dreams of a child, in short, all those who can soften the fate of the young artist.

When he gets used to it and in his own way resigns himself to the fact that he has an incomplete family, he draws everything as it really is. And in order to show us once again that he doesn’t care, he compensates for the absence of a parent with some other details that are important for him at the moment. As a rule, an incomplete family depicted by a child almost always has a buffer zone in the picture, a zone of hope, a zone of conjecture and dreams of the child, therefore, at any moment, an incomplete family can turn into a complete one.

7. The only one very often draws himself between mom and dad. When there are no conflicts in the family, he is the main link in the unification of parents. The smaller the distance between the child and the parents, the closer the members of the whole family are to each other, the stronger the kindred feelings that bind them. When not all is well in the family or during a period of romantic love for parents, the family idyll in the form of a triad - mom, yours, dad or dad, yours, mom - collapses. And in the drawing of a young artist, the sequence of arrangement of all family members can have many options. And in a chronic conflict situation, with a pronounced lack of communication in the family, like an alien, he is looking for new contacts outside the family and "complements" his family with those who have never lived in their house, but with whom he can at least take his soul away in difficult times . Most often, the only one, talking about the family, depicts the type of parental upbringing.

Recognition of types of education by drawings

Here are examples of the most common variants of drawings of various types of parenting.

1. The idol of the family. With this type of upbringing, most often he begins to draw a family from the image of himself, and his figure is in the center of a sheet of paper. Parents are a little further away, admiring him. The size of their figures is lower or on a par with the size of the figure of their idol. The artist distinguishes himself with bright outfits; a crown often flaunts on his head. And little girl idols almost always identify themselves with young princesses. The outfit of the parents is much more prosaic and serves as a gray background for comparison. Against this background, the idol looks like a holiday among everyday life (see Fig. 3 below).

2. Overprotection. The child begins to draw a family from the one who takes care of him the most. Then he draws himself next to him. Usually overprotectives are close to mom and dad, or at least hold their hands tightly. Rather, mom and dad themselves hold the child’s hands tightly. When he does something in the picture, his parents admire him, not taking his admiring glance off him. With this type of upbringing, they are shorter than their parents, only sometimes being on a par with them. His clothes are very similar in color to the outfit of mom or dad, and sometimes both at once: he does not strive, like an idol, to be a holiday against the backdrop of everyday life, knowing full well that overprotection for him is a kind of Chinese wall, inspiring once again self-confidence.

3. Hypoprotection. With this type of upbringing, most often expresses its attitude to what is happening with various options for drawings. It is not uncommon for him, carefully portraying his entire family, to suddenly “forget” to draw himself among everyone. And to the questions: "Where are you?", "Why did you forget?" - comes up with the most ordinary versions that justify his absence at the moment: "In kindergarten", "I'm walking in the yard", "The teacher detained me at school."

The polar version of this option, when for some reason, of all family members, he prefers to draw only himself, while arguing that no one is at home: his parents went to the cinema, to visit someone, did not come from work ...

When he nevertheless draws his family in full, he once again emphasizes the disunity of its members at large intervals.
spaces between them, involuntarily suggesting that each member of the family here exists only on his own, he does not care about others, especially the young artist. Drawing completely his family, he places himself at a distance from everyone, rather apart and lonely. And this creates the illusion of his simultaneous presence-absence among others.

Quite often, with hypo-custody, they depict themselves only with contours. Their figures are much lower than the figures of others, even when these "others" are actually lower than the young artist. As a rule, a drawing with hypo-custody contains both cold and warm tones, their different nuances and shades. When an artist, despite this method of education, idolizes his parents, he does not spare the brightest colors on them. Even dressing up, he does not see himself festively dressed. In his outfits there is sure to be at least one detail, but painted in cold colors, and of all these tones, black predominates.

4. Neglect. The neglected most often refuse to draw. They just don't know what a family is. After much thought, succumbing to persuasion, agreeing to participate in the test, he draws himself in the form of a small, tiny person in a huge space. All alone, a man who can be viewed under a microscope, dressed in clothes of cold tones. The mourning color of these tones is like his soul, turned inside out, overflowing with loneliness. Hopelessness and uselessness emanates from this soul.

5. Vos like "Cinderella". With this type of upbringing, the family usually begins to draw from that brother or from that sister to whom or to whom he is opposed in the house. Parents are drawn behind a brother or sister, and the artist himself leaves a place for himself somewhere far away from everyone or does not leave it at all, emphasizing that he is superfluous and unnecessary in his own family. Everything in the picture is focused on the child's opponent. His figure is taller than the drawing one, more monumental, more significant. He is either in the center, surrounded by relatives, or he is the first among all. He is admired, admired ... especially when he does something (see Fig. 6 below). And even if "Cinderella" does some tasks a hundred times better than him, parents do not attach much importance to "her" tasks. With this type of upbringing, he does not know how and is unable to hide his undermining jealousy. Therefore, the drawing is full of cold tones. And, taking revenge on an opponent, the artist often dresses him up more prosaically and more casually than himself, often making it difficult for you to analyze and interpret this drawing.

6. "Hedgehog gloves". With this type of upbringing, it is very difficult for a child to draw a family as a whole. Fearing one of the parents or both at once, he wants to "neutralize" his fear, at least on paper. Therefore, usually in the picture there is not exactly one of the members of his entire family who holds him in these "mittens". On the other hand, he surrounds himself with any relatives other than his parents, and even distant acquaintances, in short, those people who, at least to some extent, are able, even if only temporarily, to mitigate his fate by reducing the degree of discomfort. When a child in a drawing has to portray his parents, then usually he does not leave room for himself in his plot, in any case, he does not reveal the true reason.

With this type of upbringing, the size of the figure in the child in the figure is much lower than the size of the figures of his parents, and not just lower, but deliberately underestimated.

As a rule, the member of the family who holds the young artist in "hedgehogs" is depicted by him with an unusually large mouth, most often open, or with huge clawed hands.

When this type of upbringing by parents is literally brought to white heat and is so afraid of them that although he wants to, he does not dare to "forget" to draw a "tormentor", then he draws him most often without any mouth at all or without hands at all, so that at least in such a naive way to reduce the fear that captivated him.

As a rule, the drawing is filled with cold tones. All warm tones belong only to those who give affection and feel sorry for the young artist, at least a drop making his life easier.

7. Vos by the type of increased moral responsibility. At first glance, it usually seems that all the drawings of such children are just one of many copies of a typical overprotective drawing. But this is only at first glance. In fact, with increased responsibility, the artist, just like with hyper-custody, dreams of showing himself to us in a light favorable to him, either doing something, or doing something, in order to pay at least part of our attention to this.

However, without realizing it, as a rule, he highlights in such drawings all the nuances and shades of parental upbringing in the family. And if, with hyperprotection, parents are really unable to take their admiring gaze away from the actions of a young artist, with this type of upbringing, their gaze is not at all admiring, rather evaluative and even slightly biased. And the color scheme in the picture is very different. However, more often than not, the family member who laid the foundation for increased responsibility in the child is colored by him much colder than others. At least, there is always at least one dark stroke on it, most likely black - a kind of indicator of the child's true relationship to the member of his family depicted by him. A simple, ordinary indicator that breaks all the masks.

Take a look at Figure 7 (below). You see a kind of arbitration court. The trial of a child who brought home a three for the first time. The eyes of the parents, like the muzzles of pistols, are ready to shoot at one target. And this target is a first-grader, huddled in an armchair, dreaming of merging with him, disappearing, dissolving in him, so as not to see this furious look of his parents. Look-torture and look-punishment. A look that speaks more than words. The plot is saturated in black. All people look like blacks. And only a vase with bright flowers on the table and a flashing "fire" of the carpet give us some hope. The child will cope someday, a little later, with the heavy mission of increased responsibility suddenly assigned to him. He will endure, he will endure, he will win.

8. Vos "in the cult of disease." And in the figure, a cult is always a cult, whatever it may be. Even though it's just a disease cult. With this type of upbringing, the drawing seems to be permeated with an all-consuming egocentrism. Rules over all. And you involuntarily concentrate your attention on his figure. Like an idol or as with hyper-custody - in such a picture, most often in the center. Around him are those who constantly look after him in the house. Usually this is a mother or grandmother. The share of other family members is rarely left on paper. Quite often, even in the picture they are depicted as they are sick, and next to them are those who take care of them every day and all night, or rather, constantly. But no matter how sad such a plot sometimes seems to us, the "sick" prefers to paint it with warm colors.

9. Vos by the type of "crown prince"."Crown Princes" are the first to draw things. The world of materialism surrounds them from all sides literally from birth, the world of materialism, and not the world of people. Then the "crown prince" usually depicts himself in the drawing, playing with these things. He rarely remembers his parents. Much more often, he places his friends next to him, who are able to share loneliness with him, playing with his little "crown prince" with his overseas, priceless toys. It is not uncommon for "crown princes" to "replace" a drawing of their own family with a drawing of a room with things..

10. Controversial. This type of upbringing is quite difficult to capture in one picture. The child most often "groups" individual family members into small groups. He places himself next to those to whom he is most attached. And those of the relatives who "interferes" with him are usually placed at a distance. It is not uncommon for an artist to draw his grandparents in the form of a "buffer" even when they are no longer alive.

11. Changing parenting patterns(see figure 1 below). The drawing most often reveals the reason for the change in the type of upbringing of the child, and not the type itself, the type that actually does not exist.

When a newborn appears in the family, the former idol usually "forgets" to draw him among his relatives or, depicting the baby next to his parents, leaves no room for himself. When dad leaves home forever, he continues to draw him in the family for a long time, as if nothing had happened, often even starting his drawing with his father. He probably just remembers the good and beautiful past, which he would like to return and make it present again.

		Rice. 1. Drawing of a 10-year-old girl Saule R. "My family". The type of upbringing is a change in upbringing patterns. An idol who was rejected due to the birth of other children in the family. And although the main one in the picture is the House, its Hearth, like Carlson, is somewhere on the roof of the house (or behind it). And in the house there is simply no place for a former idol.
Rice. 2. Drawing of a 6-year-old girl Lera E. "My family". Type of upbringing - neglect. Lonely, useless, outcast. And even the fragile figure of the girl resembles the letter "I". I, I'm all alone in the world. And is there really not even a person in the city who would need me ...
		Rice. 3. Drawing of a 7-year-old girl Olya M. "My family". Type of education - the idol of the family. The idol of the family in all its monumentality.
Rice. 4. Drawing of a girl 6 years and 7 months old. Sveta T. "My family". The type of upbringing is closer to hypo-care. A child who often feels lonely in the family, jealous of his parents for his younger sister, for the sister who gets not only the caresses of mom and dad, but even their flowers. Dad's black trousers suggest that the girl is also worried about her father's bad habits - the source of scandals in the house.
		Rice. 5. Drawing of a girl 6 years 5 months. Lera G. "My family". Type of upbringing - hypoopeka. Another example, when, as if in a completely prosperous family, even admiring mom and dad, he feels superfluous, believing that they do not need him at all. Against the background of festively dressed parents, all the time busy only with themselves, he agreed only at the request of the elder to portray himself as a faceless silhouette.
Rice. 6. Drawing of a 13-year-old girl Lena K. "My family". Vos on the type of "Cinderella". No matter how Cinderella tries to attract the attention of her parents to herself by playing the piano, mom and dad don’t care about her, and they are completely absorbed in the family by her brother’s pranks and pranks.
		Rice. 7. Drawing of a boy 7 years 6 months. Aidana S. "My family". Vos by the type of high moral responsibility.
Rice. 8. Drawing of a 10-year-old girl Saule R. "The family I want." The rejected idol (see Fig. 1) dreams of returning the past, so that the family would be the same as before, with one child, of course, to them. But, speaking in black strokes on the figures, the harsh reality haunts him: it is unlikely that this will be possible again in his family.
		Rice. 9. Drawing of a 6-year-old girl Lera E. "The family I want." Dreams and dreams of a neglected child. At least the holiday brought the family together again. Let mom and dad finally see that they have grown up, become their equal and dream of living in their family.
Rice. 10. Drawing of a girl 6 years 9 months. Tanya B. "The Family I Want". Dreams and daydreams of a girl, whom her father keeps in "hedgehogs" (see the text for explanations).
		Rice. 11. Drawing of a girl 6 years 8 months. Oli B. "The Family I Want". I want a family soaked in the sun, so that we are always only together, so that everyone is for everyone, and everyone is for one!

Modification of the drawing technique "My family" - "The family I want"

So, you have taken only the first steps in diagnosing intra-family relations using such a simple and so universal test at the same time as "My Family". However, in order to look even deeper into the child's soul, you can also use our version of this test, modifying it into the "Family I Want" method.

To do this, after yours has finished drawing his family, turn the sheet of paper over to the other side and give him a new task: let him draw another family with the same pencils, but not the twin family, but the one that he would like to have, in other words - "The family I want."

"The family I want"... With your task, you managed to unwittingly press the levers of the child's fantasy, remove the brakes, lift the veil of his secrets, seeing what is hidden even for a child. And if the first of the drawings is most often something like a lock, which is not always possible to open because of the cipher, then the second drawing is the key to the castle, the code to the cipher. The second drawing is a positive after the retoucher worked with the negative of the first drawing. The second drawing is the "entrance" to what you want, the "entrance" to the "Beautiful Far Away", which you would not mind having now. You will not find in the second drawing even a hint of the silhouettes of the future husband or future wife of the artist. You will not find his future children in the second drawing. The child is just you are not yet able to portray yourself.

"The family I want" he represents only in the present. "Beautiful Away" is desirable for him today. And in order for it to become obvious, it is only necessary to remove the obstacles that hinder the path a little. And he easily "eliminates" them on paper, "neutralizing" them with his own methods. Therefore, usually in the picture "The Family I Want" someone from the child's true family often "disappears" or dubious relatives appear, about which few people knew. The artist either "shortens" or "lengthens" his family, producing in it only a replacement and a change of scenery that he understands. When there is no visible replacement, then usually in the second picture the sequence of the arrangement of the figures of the child's parents, as well as his brothers and sisters, is different and differs much from the one we saw during the "My Family" sample. As a rule, almost all relatives for some reason change places. And if suddenly the artist's father held him in "hedgehogs" and because of this he was the first in the drawing "My Family", then the second test arranges everything as it should. Therefore, when he nevertheless decides to “leave” even such a dad in a new family, he draws him away from everyone and after everyone.

That relative, whom for some reason "forgets" to portray in "The Family I Want", as a rule, is the source of his discomfort, the cause of all experiences and hardships. And, having "excluded" him independently from the members of his own family and thus accomplished his "judgment", the artist, as it were, suggests to us a way out of this situation and "hints" how to carry it out.

Take a look at the drawing of the former idol (see Fig. 8). In "My Family" (see Fig. 1) he only portrayed himself. But in "The Family I Want" he seems to be restoring the past. And dad and mom are again next to him, and not as before, behind a closed door. Indeed, "My Family" is indeed often a locked door. But "The Family I Want" is a gate wide open for others. And now the outcast (see Fig. 2) dreams of uniting the family with a holiday, in which he himself would be like a holiday (see Fig. 9) And the one whom the father kept in "hedgehogs" takes everyone except dad for a walk , accidentally "forgetting" to call his father with him (see Fig. 10), and sends his older sister on urgent, urgent and important matters for her, in order to finally be alone with her beloved mother.

Oh, if only the fairy tale came true! Oh, if reality suddenly turned into a fairy tale! And the sun would always shine on the family. And everyone could not live without each other (see Fig. 11). I want a family soaked in the sun. I want a family like the sun. I want HOPE, FAITH and LOVE to always live in my family!

Probably, you have convinced yourself that most often the “masks” from the analysis of the picture “My Family” are “teared off” only by the picture “The Family I Want”. And if you suddenly had to limit yourself to one drawing, you would doubt your own guesses. Therefore, when it suddenly becomes difficult to decode the "My Family" drawing sample, use its "The Family I Want" version of it.

When a child begins to hold a writing object in his hand, he always strives to leave a trace behind him. Any surface can become a canvas for a young artist: new wallpaper, furniture, and floor. The desire to paint anything and everything is a normal stage in the development of a child, so parents will have to be patient and watch how the images and plots of children's drawings change. At a certain moment, the child begins not just to dirty the paper, but to portray all sorts of unknown creatures. Such drawings reflect the inner world of a little man, and today we will figure out how to "read" a children's drawing.

How the drawing is located on the sheet

The entire paper space can be represented as a coordinate system with two axes known from school. The point of their intersection is the center of the sheet. The most favorable option is when the drawing is exactly in the center.

The vertical axis is the child's self-esteem and his sense of his position in the team.

• The picture is shifted vertically upwards - high self-esteem, a desire to win a high position in a team (sometimes such children suffer precisely from the fact that their own high opinion of themselves is not shared by others).
• The picture is shifted vertically down - low self-esteem, timidity, low self-confidence, a precarious position in the team (the child is not recognized in the team.

The horizontal axis is the time axis. The left side of the axis is associated with the past, while the right side is associated with the future.

• The drawing is located to the left of the center - the child is more directed to the past. Such children are more "in themselves", make few plans and dream little, show little activity.
• The drawing is located to the right of the center - the child is directed to the future, he is often on a positive wave, very active and active.

Analyzing the elements of the image

Head

The position of the head and face matters.

• If the head is turned to the right, the child is aimed at the implementation of his ideas and plans. If he has conceived something, he tries to implement it, even though he throws some ideas halfway through.
• If the head is turned to the left - plans and ideas mostly remain in the head, the child does not attempt to implement his ideas due to indecision.
• If the head is straight, the child is focused on himself, selfish, has high self-esteem.

Ears

If ears are attached to the head, this means that the child is ready to listen. This can manifest itself as a cognitive interest (listens to information), or maybe as an interest in the opinions of other people (listens to others in everything).

Eyes

In the drawing, the eyes are a symbol of fear, especially if they are large, clearly drawn, circled many times. Noticeable and large eyes are a symbol of strong fear. Traced eyelashes speak of some coquetry, attention to one's own appearance, the desire to please.

Mouth

The mouth can be drawn in different ways: open, closed, just a line or real lips.

• Clearly drawn lips speak of a child's sensuality.
• If the emphasis is on the language, the child is very talkative.
• Sometimes both lips and tongue are drawn. This indicates the expression of both qualities.
• If the mouth is open, but there is no tongue or lips, especially if there is hatching, the child is very timid, can easily get scared, constantly doubts and does not trust. This is especially true for teenagers.
• Traced teeth indicate verbal aggression. This aggression is usually defensive in nature, that is, the child can respond if something happens.

Forehead

A large and high forehead is a sign of the predominance of a rational principle, erudition.

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Unusual details on the head

Sometimes children draw different details on their heads, which can also be deciphered.

• Horns - aggressiveness or a desire to defend themselves, the ability to "wrestle" if necessary.
• Feathers - the desire to attract attention, stand out, the desire to decorate oneself.
• Hairstyle, mane or wool - the child seeks to indicate what gender he is, to emphasize this.

limbs

The drawn creature can stand on its feet or legs. Their appearance also speaks of the internal state of the child.

• Massive, strong limbs indicate that the child stands firmly on his feet in life. He has something to rely on, he makes balanced decisions, considers his actions.
• Weak, thin legs or their absence indicate the fragility of internal positions, beliefs. The child makes decisions rather impulsively, his judgments are not deep.

Special attention should be paid to how the limbs are connected to the body.

• If the connections are drawn well, the child carefully controls his reasoning, thinks logically and consistently.
• If the connections are drawn carelessly or are absent at all, the child seems to be slightly out of touch with reality, his thoughts are chaotic.

In addition to legs or paws, the child can draw other limbs. They can serve as decoration, or they can carry some function.

• Wings, shell, additional limbs indicate that the child is attracted to a variety of areas of activity, he is comprehensively developed, interested in many things, easily makes acquaintances. Such children are self-confident and easily take their place in life.
• The painted tentacles indicate that the child almost always acts boldly.
• Various bows, decorations in the picture reveal in the child a desire to attract attention, demonstrativeness and mannerisms.

An interesting element in the image is the tail:

• If the tail is drawn on the right, the child has high self-esteem, he positively perceives himself and his actions. If on the left - the child is prone to self-criticism.
• If the tail looks up - the child is active and self-confident, if down - the child is depressed, dissatisfied with himself.

"Three trees"

Studying children's drawings, you can not only analyze what the child draws spontaneously, but also give a task. The Three Trees drawing test is very simple and informative.

Invite the child to draw three trees on a sheet, and then name which of the trees is the father, who is the mother, and which is the baby himself (there may be more trees, according to the number of family members). In this figure, we will be interested in the size of the trees. The key to the puzzle lies in the fact that the child relates trees to family members not by physical height / size, but by the share of influence that this family member has. So, for example, if a child associates himself with the smallest tree, there is nothing to rejoice at, because this suggests that the opinion of the child in the family is not significant. Parents should give the child more independence in making decisions and listen to his wishes. The most harmonious picture will be when all trees are equal. Yes, of course, a child can compare himself to a small tree. itself is small, but the meaning is deeper. Here it is written a little more about this - http://grigorieva-elena.ru/metodika-test-tri-dereva/

Mystery of color

Deciphering color is one of the most difficult. Each color has an ambiguous psychological meaning, and besides, for each child, the meaning of color can be different. That is why it is necessary to decipher the meaning of color based on the information already obtained from the drawing: color can emphasize the severity of the identified qualities or give them a special psychological meaning.

Psychologically, colors are usually interpreted as follows:

• Red is a symbol of passion, love, but in some cases it symbolizes anxiety, aggression, strong negativity and a sense of danger.
• Blue is the color of reason, logic, order. His other pole is fantasies, madness.
• Yellow is the color of vitality, a symbol of openness and freedom. Sometimes personifies jealousy, deceit, envy.
• Orange is a very energetic color, a sign of strength and personal maturity. Its reverse side is militancy and the desire to fight.
• Green is the color of growth, maturation, hope for the best. Sometimes denotes immaturity or soreness.
• Purple is a mysterious color, a symbol of harmony and secret knowledge. It can denote anxiety, depression, withdrawal into oneself.
• Black can be solid and solemn, or it can be mournful.
• White is the color of purity, but sometimes it is a sign of inner emptiness and mourning.
• Gray color is generally neutral, its negative interpretation is confusion, melancholy.

Comparing the results of all methods of working with children's drawings, you can find out about the child something that is hidden deep and not visible to the naked eye. Any concerns or issues that come up need to be dealt with. The first medicine is mother's love, care and attention. Deeper problems are best dealt with by a specialist. Spend as much time with your baby as possible, play and draw together - this will help you better see the problems and give an understanding of how you can help the child.

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It is far from always possible to easily assess the psychological state of the child, since at this age perception often occurs at the subconscious level. For example, a baby may be afraid of his father or even hate him deep down, but age does not allow him to understand his feelings, therefore, even asking the baby a direct question, it will be difficult to expect an intelligible answer from him. Also, a whole storm of emotions can be hidden under external carelessness. How to understand what is really happening with the child? It turns out that for this you can use the psychology of a child's drawing, which (if you know how to read it) will tell about everything that happens in a child's soul.

Deciphering the meaning hidden in a children's drawing

The analysis of children's drawings is very similar to solving puzzles. Only an experienced child psychologist can cope with it, although parents should also know the simplest principles of decoding.

Color

This is the most important criterion. Since children prefer not to mix paints, primary colors are sufficient for analysis. If any color prevails in the composition, then this indicates that the child is preoccupied with some phenomenon or event. If he uses a lot of colors, then we can talk about the versatility of his interests and the absence of a problem that dominates him.

• If, in the presence of a sufficiently complete palette, the child uses mainly gray, black or dark red shades, then he is probably tormented by fears and depression.
• On the contrary, the abundance of orange and yellow colors indicates a good mood of the painter.
• The red color signals aggression and rapid excitability, but such serious conclusions can only be drawn after analyzing the rest of the behavior.
• Self-absorbed individuals prefer different shades of blue.
• Green speaks of a bored state. If the child has completely green lawns and groves, then you should think about taking him to the section or captivating with something else.
• Dreamers and dreamers adore purple.
• Restless children with self-esteem issues often use brown.

But the psychology of children's painting is not so simple. Some mothers, after reading relevant books and noticing an abundance of black in children's scribbles, drag the baby to a psychologist with horror. But after all, the black color not only speaks of anxiety, it can be the easiest way to highlight an important object in the picture. Graphics cannot be considered a sign of a problem, rather, it is a craving for discipline, especially if there are no other reasons for concern.

Composition

The relationship of objects in a children's drawing reflects the thoughts of the author.

• Family members clinging to each other speak of mutual understanding, the clasped hands of the figures also speak of closeness and trust.
• If a child placed one of the parents in the very corner of the sheet, then that should think about how to communicate more with the child.
• The child will definitely place the most significant person in the center and make it the largest.
• If there is no close relative in the picture, then there may be a conflict with him, so the child tries to subconsciously get this person out of his head and out of the picture.
• With internal emptiness and low self-esteem, the child will leave the center of the picture empty. If inanimate objects are in the center, then there is concern about the financial situation.
• In a visionary, figures usually float without touching hard surfaces. The bold line of the earth speaks of self-doubt.

The subtext of a child's drawing often becomes intuitively clear. If objects are drawn very large, then this indicates internal comfort. A selfish nature seeks to occupy as much space as possible with a self-portrait. If the child feels lonely, then he will depict himself as small and place him somewhere in the corner of the picture. The arms and legs, as thin as matches, speak of the baby's concern about his own weakness. A disproportionately large head means self-absorption. By dressing up his figure too much in the picture, the baby says by this that the assessment of his appearance by others is important to him.

Many parents do not pay much attention to a sore throat in a child. But sometimes it is a symptom of a serious illness requiring urgent treatment.

Deciphering a children's drawing of a house

Another visual psychological test is drawing a house.

• If the kid depicted a big house, then he can be called sociable, hospitable, open.
• If there is a staircase leading to a blank wall, then it speaks of a hidden family conflict.
• The house, as if far away, shows the loneliness and rejection of the baby.
• If the house is surrounded by numerous buildings, then the baby has an alarming condition.
• If the child tried to draw the back wall of the house, then he seeks to control his emotions.
• If the house hangs above the ground, then the baby has a weak connection with reality, he soars in the clouds.
• If the lower contours of the walls, on the contrary, are clearly drawn, then the baby has difficulties and anxiety.
• Transparent walls show the desire for leadership, while thin sidelines scream of nervous exhaustion. Large open doors are a sign of sociability, but if they are too large, then dependence on other people is quite possible. On the contrary, small doors hide self-doubt.
• Many doors drawn from different sides indicate a desire for loneliness, and their absence indicates difficulties with communication.
• The abundance of windows speaks of the thirst for communication, and the curtains on them indicate closeness. If there are windows only on the top floor, then the baby is far from reality.
• The roof in the form of a thick line also hints at the fantasy of the child, and if it is torn off from the front wall, then the baby does not find a place for himself in life. The cornice, brought out of the roof, speaks of the baby's desire to protect himself from his fears. If the pipe comes out of the back of the roof, then the baby does not want to get close to his family emotionally.
• Thick smoke reminds of inner tension, and a thin stream - of a lack of communication with loved ones.

Deciphering a children's drawing of a family

You can decipher the children's drawing of the family and understand from this how it relates to any member of the family. The kid needs to be given a sheet of paper, pencils or paints and asked to draw their relatives. Since children usually love to draw, the kid will do this task with pleasure. Next, you will need to apply the knowledge of child psychology when deciphering the finished drawing.
It is useful to quietly observe the drawing process. A child usually starts drawing a family with the most significant and authoritative person for him. If all the drawn family members have tiny figures, then this indicates a very low self-esteem of the author. If the figures are grouped at the top of the sheet, then this indicates that the baby is dissatisfied with his own status in the family, and he would subconsciously want to correct the situation. If they are placed at the bottom of the sheet, then the child has a too low level of claims. The most beloved member of the family is not only drawn first, but also drawn better than the rest.
The distance between the figures indicates the closeness of relationships in the family. The closely spaced figures hint at a trusting relationship, and the absence of other objects between them speaks of the same. If the figures are isolated or separated by objects, busy with different things, then this indicates the disunity of the family and not too warm relations in it.
It is also interesting to evaluate the self-portrait of the baby. If he painted himself equal to or even taller than adults, then he considers himself important and special. On the contrary, a too compressed figure speaks of a feeling of humiliation. A painted hat signals the need for protection. Poorly drawn facial features hint at closeness, internal aggression erupts in the grin of the mouth, and fear looks out of large eyes. Widely spaced legs mean the child’s self-confidence, and insecurity can be judged by hands hidden in pockets or laid behind his back. Usually children do not draw ears, but if this detail is present, it means that the words of the parents are important for the baby and he listens to them.
In children's drawings, the sun is very often present, symbolizing well-being and warmth. If there is a figure blocking the sun for the baby, then such a person in reality can deprive the child of warmth and comfort. If there are many household items in the picture, then, most likely, the parents are more focused on material well-being than spiritual. It’s bad when one of the family members is absent from the picture, which indicates the child’s dislike or indifference towards him, and even worse if the baby himself is not there, that is, he does not feel needed in the family. If there are strangers in the family drawing, then this means that the baby seeks to change something in the family. The child will draw the most unloved member of the family with broken, sharp lines, and he will depict all his beloved relatives more carefully, using smooth lines.

It is well known that children's drawings can tell a lot about a lot. Of course, the whole inner world of the child will not be revealed in them, but it is quite possible to understand his relationship with parents, peers and others.

In a word, psychology based on children's drawings is a very important direction. Drawing will help to understand the emotional mood of the child, as colors and paints can convey the feelings and experiences of the child. From the drawing, you can find out how open the child is to the world and what worries him.

All the details of the drawing are important, for example, if the house occupies most of the sheet, then the child is quite sociable, but if the doors in it are small, the child probably feels insecure.

If there are no doors at all, the child has problems, he apparently lacks communication with his parents, and if the doors are drawn on the side or there is a lock on them, the child is lonely and closes. The house is the foundation, it is laid by the parents from the birth of the child, so it is very important to look at the drawings, in the center of which the house is depicted.

If it is drawn in the distance, then the child feels rejected, there are tensions in the family, another confirmation of this, a staircase leading to nowhere.

Windows also speak a lot, if a lot of windows are drawn in the house, it means that the child is open with other children and people. If there are curtains on the windows, then it is difficult for him to communicate, and if there are bars on the windows at all, the child has internal conflicts and complexes, which means that

Should be better, and communication - more.

The pipe in the house also speaks of problems, if liquid smoke comes out of it, then the child does not have enough communication with his parents. If the pipe is hidden behind the roof, it means that the child does not want to communicate emotionally at all, and if thick smoke comes out of the pipe, it is hard on his soul.

What do colors mean in children's drawings?

As for colors, purple and yellow are favorable, they are usually used by children who are optimistic about the world. If red predominates, the child is hyperactive, blue speaks of longing and internal tension. If the picture is dominated by green, then the child lacks peace and love.

Brown speaks of discomfort, and black of decadence and depression. If a child draws only with a pencil, without using paint, then he lacks vivid emotions. This needs to be corrected, since it is such that the child must constantly learn new things.

It is important to pay attention to how the child in the picture depicts people. Often children draw themselves, if the child has big eyes in the picture, then he needs support, if the eyes are small, then he is afraid of something.

• If the arms are laid to the sides, the child is active, if they are long and lowered, then he needs help. If the drawn character is in a precarious position, then the child needs more attention, he lacks support in life.
• It is very good if there are all family members in the child's family drawing. If someone is not there, for example, the child himself, then he does not feel a connection with this person.
• The presence of authority in the family depends on the height of people in the figure, according to the child, for example, mom may be taller than dad, although this is not so. The distance between the characters is also important, it can be used to judge how close or far family members are from each other.
• Usually a child starts drawing a family with a person who has the greatest authority for him. If all people are short, the child has low self-esteem.

If the figures are drawn at the top of the sheet, the baby is dissatisfied with his position in the family and wants to correct the situation. If everyone is drawn at the bottom, then the child has a low level of claims, the favorite family member is usually drawn first and is drawn best of all. If you pay attention to the drawings, you will understand many and be able to deal with them.

The image of the child himself can tell almost everything about him, if you know what children's drawings mean, then this is just a storehouse of useful information. If he draws himself equal to or taller than adults, he feels his uniqueness and importance. If his height is too small, then he feels humiliated.

If he painted himself wearing a hat, he needs protection. If his facial features are poorly drawn, he is unnecessarily closed. If his mouth is open and his teeth are visible, he is overly aggressive. If his legs are wide apart, he is confident, and if they are removed behind his back, this indicates insecurity. If a child has drawn ears, he obeys his parents, but they are rarely drawn.

Children almost always draw the sun, it is a symbol of warmth and well-being, but if there is someone in the picture who fences off the baby from him, then he deprives the child of comfort.

If there are a lot of objects in the picture, the family is guided by the material, not the spiritual. If a lot of people are depicted, then the child does not feel comfortable and he wants change. If the figures are drawn with sharp and broken lines, then these family members are unpleasant for the child, those whom the baby loves he draws with smooth and soft lines.

“Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist, having left childhood ”(Pablo Picasso).

Children love to draw. Their drawings carry not only a semantic load, but also express a psycho-emotional state. Psychologists consider this type of children's creativity to be projective, that is, giving a projection on the relationship of the child with society, and also expressing the inner world of the baby. It should be noted that drawing for a child is, first of all, a way to convey their emotions. The fact is that young children cannot express complex emotional states in words. If pain or fear is easy to convey with the phrases: “I am in pain”, “I am scared”, then loneliness, sadness or inspiration is more difficult to explain. That is why adults should not evaluate only the aesthetics of the drawing. In no case should you say: “It doesn’t look like it!”, “Crooked!” - such statements will force the child to withdraw into himself. It is better to carefully consider the image and try to understand the complex range of feelings that the child conveyed through creativity.

Plot interpretation

Children draw what makes them feel

From the picture, you can draw some directions of the child's behavior, learn about his self-determination in the family and understand what kind of help he needs. So, here are the main points that you should pay attention to when studying the plot of the picture. As a rule, children draw what makes them feel. If these are the heroes of the last book read, it’s great: the baby knows how to empathize, he has preferences, attachments. Of course, the gender of the child must also be taken into account: boys often draw technique - this is also normal, this is how their natural male aggression is expressed. Girls prefer dolls - this is their genetic code of motherhood and the desire to build a family hearth. The presence of animals speaks of the sensitivity and vulnerability of the child. And if the mood of animals is conveyed in the picture, then this indicates the state of mind of the artist, since children associate themselves with animals.

Color Meaning

Psychologists pay special attention to the color palette of children's drawings

Psychologists, studying drawings to create a psycho-emotional portrait, pay special attention to the color palette.

• If red prevails, then this indicates that the child is active. But if there is a lot of red, it can be an indicator of aggressiveness.
• Blue is synonymous with sadness. Probably, the child is missing someone close.
• Black color speaks of depression, isolation, fear.
• Orange color is chosen by children who are not deprived of communication. They are usually sociable. However, an excess of orange speaks of tearfulness and resentment.
• Shades of green indicate that the baby needs protection and calm. Often children, in whose drawings there is a lot of green, are closed and do not find a common language with others.
• For girls, a pink palette is an indicator that they need more attention. And for boys, this color is evidence of conflict and weakness.
• Those who have a wild imagination prefer purple. These children need approval and support.
• Brown is loved by guys who are prone to solitude.
• If a child is dominated by yellow, then this means that personal space is very important to him, although at the same time he is very sociable and cheerful.

In general, in the drawing of a fully developing child, all colors should be present that objectively correspond to the objects depicted.

What does the picture of the family say

A drawing in which the whole family is depicted together is positively evaluated.

Children love to draw their family very much. In this way, they show how important close people are to them, and also determine what role they assign to themselves in the family. Children usually depict mother at work, more often at cooking - this means that enough attention is paid to the needs of the child in the family. If the baby portrayed his mother at the ironing board, then this can only please - the child feels warmth and feels comfortable surrounded by his family.

If in the picture the child does not depict the father, this should cause concern: the baby does not feel close to him. It is also bad if dad is drawn with a hammer, a saw - it means that the child is afraid of his parent. However, most often children draw dads in front of the TV. And this is sad for the strong half, since in the view of their own children, they are needed only as a piece of furniture.

The drawing, in which the whole family is depicted together, is positively evaluated. This suggests that the child is all right with the emotional background. A completely opposite situation develops if the baby does not draw himself next to mom and dad - he feels superfluous and unnecessary.

Other features

For a full analysis of the child's drawing, it is necessary to take into account pressure and shading. If the pressure is strong, and the shading is jerky and uneven, the child experiences anxiety, emotional exhaustion. The location of the image on the sheet is also important. The most important things for children are located closer to the center. If the figures are small, more like insects, then most likely the baby is not self-confident. Conversely, one or two huge figures indicate that the child is self-centered.

For the correct interpretation of children's drawings, you need to devote enough time and be sure to remember that a drawing is a product of individual creativity - unique, endowed with meanings, a kind of map of the psychological and emotional state of the baby.

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