Originally posted by: HumblePie
Age has nothing to do with it. She just has better fine motor skills, probably better eye sight then average, and that's really all you need besides confidence. Confidence is key to convince yourself you are beyond drawing stick figures and cutting hearts out of paper plates, and making people chains by folding up paper and cutting them out. I guess if I hadn't seen it before, or hadn't actually been like her at that age I would be impressed. But really, it's not THAT uncommon for art. I had pictures hanging in the Smithsonian when I was 8 from winning an art contest. I did a 4 foot by 6 foot picture of all stiple dots so close together that you had to be closer then 4 feet away to it to realize it was all dots. It was a picture of my little brother walking besides a duck/swan pond we had by our house in Holland. All I used was a regular ink pen. It took me 8 months to do but it really wasn't all that hard. Heck, I got to the point I could watch TV and let my hand do everything with me only having to glance over at the picture to reposition my hand for a new section.
I duno, maybe Im bitter because while I was good, I never did much with it. Didn't really know how nor did I care to "market" my skills when I was 8 years old. I did it because I thought it was fun and something to do. chances are, I'd probably never have entered an art contest at all if my parents hadn't submitted my art in.
The problem with Art is that there is no age boundaries. If you guys here saw half the crap I'd seen while growing up then you wouldn't be as impressed. I only wish there was an internet when I was her ageMight have made money... naw.
I must really lack confidence, because I still can't draws stick figures, cut hearts out of paper plates, or make people chains.
Eh, well I was decent at art once, but not really because of any talent. I'm a really impatient person with poor motor skills, but once I did actually take like 10 hours to do a portrait(whereas normally I'd rush to try and finish something as quickly as possible) and it was decent....not sure why I actually took my time in that art class, I guess because we never really had deadlines on projects or anything, but were rather just graded on the quality so it was more worth it to take my time.
I can draw decently much faster using a tablet than with a pen or pencil though due to that I tend to press down hard when working quickly, and a tablet will slide much easier.
Not really, it's much easier to teach children something. I'd be much more impressed by a 30 year old that can learn calculus than a 10 year old, honestly I always felt that the math progression in shcool was way too slow, by 2nd grade everyone should have taken algebra.
BTW, most of her pictures don't stand out to me, but I thought Forbidden Fruit was fairly impressive.
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