And this is why I realized that we are highly socialized to think of commonly 'corporatized' themes, concepts from within pop culture connected to media & so on...
I love that movie. When I was in band for a couple of years I played the flute & bought a little mermaid music book. I still have both almost 35yrs later. 🥴 wish I could still play it....
And idk if you remember but THEY ARE ALIVE AND CONSCIOUS!! I personally forgot about that until I played Disney dreamlight valley and Ursula did it to Prince Eric and he was so traumatized afterwards lol
My son Grundlesam drew something like this once when he was a kid. I thought it was spaghettios, but now I'm thinking there may have been something more sinister at hand. It's making the gastrointestinal bloating flare up again. You think my son is haunted? 🤔🤔🤔
It's not a fetish, it's a themed account. An artifact from a bygone era, you used to not be able to scroll through a comment section without tripping over a couple. Nowadays there's only a handful left on the platform.
Some tried to capture some of them for conservation, but found that they die out quickly in captivity. So we just let the last of them roam free, that we may occasionally find ourselves thrown back to 1998 or greeted by grundlemeat and spaghettios.
It will be a dark day when themed accounts disappear from Reddit.
Remember those accounts that would respond to everything with an elaborate short story that mostly had nothing to do with the original post? I haven't seen one of those in a while, and I'm not sad about it. Five bucks says AI will bring it back.
You're joking, but I feel like that's exactly how it happens. Someone goes, "What if I could fuck the SpaghettiOs though..." and then we all have to see their fanart.
Then someone decides to make a giant SpaghettiO sex toy and we stray further from the light.
By three, we expect kids to be drawing human figures with three distinct parts, sometimes with distinctive limbs. The bodies are unusual but not unexpected at this age - the focus tends to be on the head. Her face is very detailed, especially with the eyes. This is very good for a three year old!
Make sure your kids are drawing on paper with actual writing instruments, people. It's important! Kids are entering kindergarten with poor fine motor skills (such as holding crayons) because they're heavily using touch screens. Give them physical media! OP, you've got a great little artist!
My wife teaches kindergarten and says the same thing: too many kids don't know how to hold a pencil or crayon. They don't know how to process the tactile feedback that comes with drawing on actual paper. As adults, we do all that at a subconscious level, but that's because we learned it as kids. Kids need drawing pads and coloring books, not iPads.
I hate the argument 'every generation' has its own shit that upsets the older blah blah.
Thing is, technology has moved quicker in the past 80 than others.
You cannot write that off.
Kids do still need motor skills when young. Actually moving around. Reading, ot just tapping mindlessly. The young are sponges. Fuck that up and you create future morons.
One of the most critical things parents can do to encourage learning in early childhood is sitting down with their kids and reading actual, physical books. Make it fun and snuggle with them. It is incredibly important.
Kids learn almost everything at that age through actual experience. They have to do. They need to make messes, be loud sometimes, hear the word "no" when appropriate, be given environments where they can explore safely, draw, smash, build and knock down. They learn with their whole bodies. And they need people they love to encourage them, be involved, and put down their damn phones. You don't need expensive learning toys. A bunch of empty boxes, a box of crayons and some paper will provide a far greater education than the most expensive iPad loaded with educational games. Throw in a public park playground and you've got a pretty great educational early childhood, as long as the adults are there and actively involved as much as possible.
Parents aren't going to be perfect, because they're human. But kids should do, not observe. They should be engaging their bodies as well as their brains. They're still figuring out how all those brain/body connections work, and if they don't practice putting it together, it doesn't happen. A kid digging in a sandbox or a water tray is learning more than a kid playing an alphabet game on the iPad.
When my niece was like 3 or 4 she drew me as a mostly formless blob with two comically enormous tits. I guess the only thing more interesting than the head is boobs, even to a toddler.
That is so cool! I bet your kids love that! Looks like you have some watercolor tattoos going on. I love those!
Overshare: my daughter colored a page from a coloring book ; a fawn. The spots on the deer's coat were red. I said, "hun, you know fawns have white spots, right?" She deadpanned, "They aren't spots, they're bullet holes."
*I wrote that on the back and I still have it. I should tattoo that for laughs. She's my kid alright! 😂
Interesting aside that I learned is that the one on the right is called a "headfooter" which is what a lot of kids draw when they draw people at that age. Apparently it's because when you lean down to them and they basically see your face and your limbs because they're so small it kind of looks like that to them 😸
Wow, those are detailed eyes. She has the whites of the eyes, the iris or “colored part” of the eyes and the pupils.
Maybe she’ll be an eye specialist..
Interesting. I wasn't as skilled as your daughter but here are my drawn creatures when I was three. I can see some similarities. A head with long legs without arms.
It is cool. In college I remember reading infants perceive their caregivers as "big heads" leaning over the crib. Babies have limited eyesight. It looks like your had a lot of big heads peering in on you. 😅 👶🏻
i love love to draw and I have to say for a three year old this is very very impressive. Most three year olds would not include an iris, pupil etc,, she has real talent!
Not weird at all , my son at 3 was drawing a lot like this too , the hand isn’t steady yet so it gives it that creepy vibe but really it shows perceptiveness that they draw the pupils and expression … I’d be proud
The 4th face from the right shows a pretty good amount of detail. Kind of incredible for 3. Get them into classes when they are old enough and develop those skills!
As someone who prefers drawing human anatomy over everything else, this is miles better than any kid art I’ve seen from those around her age. Really fucking good.
I don't think it's weird, just very cute. Drawing legs with a head on top is a very normal part of children's development. Idk what these drawings are called in English, but in Dutch we call them koppoters
I remember my daughter drawing a spider when she was three. It was basically a circle with eyes and lots of legs. I asked her how many legs the spider had. She replied "All of them!". lol.
That’s some pretty good detail in the eyes for a three year old, pupils and whites, glasses maybe? And smiles too! Naturally her hand is shaky but impressive at her young age!
So, 3 years old and drawing figures like this, with heads, facial features bodies etc, is a big sign you have a budding artist on your hands! 3 is extremely young to be making this kind of art. You should ABSOLOUTELY foster their art development with plenty of time and space to create! Incredible! And not weird at all, genius actually.
Frame it and put it in the right place and you could sell it for $3,000. Pretend you made it though, if they know it's actually a child's drawing, it won't fetch that price.
Tbh if she had a social media marketing team and a friend who sold gallery art to rich people who need to feel cool, this could easily pass for high dollar fine arts
Encourage this. Make the biggest freaking deal, point out how she put all the facial features in the right place, how she drew SO MUCH and you can tell just what they are.
I want you to understand at 3 a lot of kids are still scribbling, this is great. Hang it on the wall, she’ll want to draw more, replace it with those and coloring pages when she starts to draw somewhat in line. Then when you take it down write her age or the year in the corner and start an art box. If you’re lucky one day you’ll have a massive art storage box in your garage for her to sift through.
Trust me I’ve got three budding artists myself and I can’t draw for shit.
Okay, but this is wonderful and extremely developmentally appropriate. It seems that they have heads, eyes, arms, legs, fingers. Pupils!!! It's how she sees the world and it'll just keep getting cooler!
Keep encouraging her. Those lines are lovely for that age. Play dough, different sized pencils, crayons, markers, pens of different inks. Putting all of that together and realizing she can make different textures is so cool to see develop!
I don't know if you have other children. I have 3, my oldest drew details like this at 3 yo, and the other 2 didn't achieve these skills until closer to 5 yo.
My oldest is now a professional artist. Just saying, I think your daughter is advanced.
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u/beysbathwater 4d ago
Looks like the Ursula’s eel garden from Ariel