Eight of the Ten Chapters of Education - How old are you to learn sketching?

Children abroad generally start learning to draw when they are eleven or twelve years old, but around us, we can always see primary school students who have just entered the first or second grade to learn to draw at the request of their parents.

What is sketching?

To put it simply, it is a monochrome painting, usually done with pencil or charcoal. What are the key points of sketching? Shape, perspective, light and shade, reality and reality, etc.

So we saw a seven or eight-year-old child holding a pencil, staring at a painting very seriously and copying it, and perhaps sighed inadvertently.

A child of this age cannot even hold a pen well, so why should he be taught sketching?

Then the pen tip became bald, and I looked at the teacher desperately, hoping that someone could help sharpen two pencils. At this time, if you ask him what is parallel perspective and what is angular perspective, he will think you are crazy. If you don't give up and continue to ask him what is the boundary between light and dark, and what is reality and reality, he may think you are an alien.

A parent in the circle of friends posted a picture with a paragraph: My child just learned to draw for two days, and he drew it casually.

I didn’t like it or reply, I just told a friend about it as a joke.

From this sentence, the parents' joy is beyond words, and that "random" work may have been drawn casually for a long time. This painting is a sketch of geometry, a cube and a cone. At first glance, it seems to be what it is. So I clicked on the picture, zoomed in and observed it, and it turned out to be just a flat painting. The lines are disorganized and vary in thickness; the frame of the geometry is drawn with a ruler; there is no boundary between light and dark; no light source can be found; and the shadows are dark.

If this painting was painted by a child who has never received painting education, then I think this child is definitely a genius. In fact, this is a quick work created by an unscrupulous teacher.

Obviously, this child has not practiced arranging lines. Maybe the teacher does not take this seriously, but a painting is composed of points, lines, and surfaces. Lines without texture can never be drawn. It is a good painting; it is obvious that this child used a ruler when drawing. Perhaps the teacher did not emphasize that a work of art is not an engineering design drawing, and rigid straight lines are definitely not drawn by an artist; it is obvious that this child When copying a work, perhaps the teacher did not give good guidance, the perspective was completely wrong, and the light and dark were the same.

If it is simply to let the children produce a piece of work and make the parents excited, I think these teachers are quite successful.

If deceiving a parent who is not very professional is not a serious problem, then ruining a child who could be a rising artistic star is.

These children are not yet old enough to understand virtual space, and they do not know what reality and rules are. All they can do is imitate, and copy a painting that they do not understand or appreciate. , maybe they learn it very well in the end, but in the process, they are very likely to lose interest and even misunderstand the meaning of art. If you ask him one day, have you ever studied art? At that time, he pointed at a copied painting and made him laugh.

At what age did you learn to sketch?

In fact, many parents misunderstand the original meaning of painting. Sketching is just a form of painting, and learning painting is to cultivate children's sense of beauty and learn to discover and appreciate beauty.

Sketching allows children to learn to observe and study objects, and color helps children learn to understand the feeling of colors. However, children’s random graffiti is also their artistic creation. It is not only the things that we adults appreciate that are art. If you really want your children to feel "truth, goodness and beauty", it is better for parents to learn painting first.