Chapter 8: Form and content in children’s drawings

Chapter overview:

This chapter discusses the form and content in the children’s drawings, namely the children’s use of simple-complex modes as their semiotic styles, and their preferences for drawing simple-complex themes, as their configuration styles. Combining these with drawer patterns - their preferences as dramatists who adorn their drawings with active narratives, or patterners who prefer to focus their attention on the drawing itself, we propose the three children’s unique drawer’s identities. We also discuss the most popular themes drawn by the children, as identified in an Inventory of Content.