ABSTRACT
In modern culture, artistic development for most people ends early in life. Typically, adults will continue to draw at the level of a ten- or twelve-year-old. 1 Drawing expert Betty Edwards has said that it is around this age that children want their drawings to be more realistic but most will find it difficult to achieve the representational accuracy they desire. She calls this ‘the crisis period’. They become frustrated and it is at this point that they often give up; they simply stop trying to draw. 2
