When you were a kid, did you ever draw a self portrait?

[Julie Marie]

I just saw a child's drawing that included them flying on an airplane.  I thought about gender and how every kid gets the gender right.

But I was wondering how many here would draw themselves as their identified gender.  I can't remember once drawing myself in anything.  I think I pretty much stayed away from drawing people altogether.

Did you ever draw yourself as your identified gender when you were a child?

[4A-GZE]

I drew myself male without questioning it. Then again, I'm still really confused, so I'm not the best to answer this...

[hiddenflame]

Once when I had had to go to the hospital I was given a coloring book that was hospital related.  I colored the wrong page of a 2 page spread of sick kids in bed (male and female).  Once it was discovered there was a LONG discussion in which I was told it would never happen again and I learned to be very cautious in anything I said to anyone.

This post took a while because I had let it degenerate into a rant about "them", but I realized that just typing it was enough and it is totally off topic here

[Trixie]

I never drew pictures of myself. Never ever. I honestly don't think I've ever drawn myself.

[Felix]

I can't really remember. Kids usually use markers like long eyelashes, bows, or dresses to denote female gender, and I know my pictures didn't have those, but I didn't dress like that anyway. As an adult I had to draw one for an art class once. That was so hard. I fail at representational art. XD

[Julie Marie]

Once when I had had to go to the hospital I was given a coloring book that was hospital related.  I colored the wrong page of a 2 page spread of sick kids in bed (male and female).  Once it was discovered there was a LONG discussion in which I was told it would never happen again and I learned to be very cautious in anything I said to anyone.

I'd say you colored the RIGHT page and everyone else got it WRONG.

Here's a sample of what I might have drawn, although it's a little more detailed than what I would have done:


I can imagine me drawing both a boy and a girl.  In my own world, I'd be the girl.  I'd let everyone else assume I identified with the boy. 

[Torn1990]

I just saw a child's drawing that included them flying on an airplane.  I thought about gender and how every kid gets the gender right.

But I was wondering how many here would draw themselves as their identified gender.  I can't remember once drawing myself in anything.  I think I pretty much stayed away from drawing people altogether.

Did you ever draw yourself as your identified gender when you were a child?

haha... the strange thing about this for me is.. i drew naked women alot when i was younger.
Ofcourse, everyone thought how cute it was and that i was just a sexual boy telling the world how much im attracted to the female body
uh, mostly i was drawing these bodies because i was admiring them towards my own when i got older.

[gennee]

I never drew pictures of myself. I was a nature buff.

[Ribbons]

I drew myself how I drew all other girls I drew. Like this:

[Andris]

I loved drawing but mainly fantasy pictures, cars, fictional stuff like wars with Hungarian hussars etc. - but not much about myself. (My young sister always drew herself and her friends aka princesses, sparkling castles and so on..  😛 ) I cannot find a "normal" self-portrait. 

Recently, I've noticed that my child's-drawings show the difference between boys and girls by length of hair.
Like this:


But well, I've been having short hair as a kid - so I drew short hair for myself appearing in "my family" drawing. 

[Wolfsnake]

I never drew myself as a human person, but I did draw "characters" I wanted to be, or felt like I was inside, always with ambiguous genders. I never drew myself as female or human if I could help it.

Here's one from grade school:
http://sthenadrakaina.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d2zahiq 🔗

Year or two ago:
http://sthenadrakaina.deviantart.com/gallery/31655273#/d30nq3g 🔗

Most recent:
http://sthenadrakaina.deviantart.com/gallery/31655273#/d41jzle 🔗

[Felix]

In my daughter's drawings, you can tell the girls from the boys because they have eyelashes.

[cindianna_jones]

I never drew people. The first animal I learned to draw was a squirrel!  Duh.  If any have read my book, you understand.  So starting around fourth grade, I drew squirrels in much of my artwork. I wish some of it had survived. My publishing logo has a squirrel in it so in some ways my kiddy interest in Squirrel is still alive and well.

Cindi

[Kelly J. P.]

 The only times I ever drew a self-portrait when I was younger, I drew myself as a male because I was attempting to draw myself for what I looked like. I also remember that I always hated my self-portraits to an extent beyond what one would expect a child to be capable of, especially to something so seemingly simple.

I didn't believe that I was female when I was that young. All that I knew was that I wanted to be... but it didn't get strong until I was twelve.

[Max]

I was sifting through old artwork and actually found a self portrait with the words "me as a boy" written on it. The drawing was at least 5 years old and created during a conflicted point in my life. I had many other self portraits where I shied away from 'feminine' traits. It just felt right to depict myself that way. To be honest, I've only ever drawn myself as a female when (1) I was assigned to in school, and (2) I was deep in denial and wanted to fit in. And let's not get into the drawings when I was a child...

[Silas]

I always drew myself as I looked, so it was always with long hair, and sometimes what looked like a dress (actually just a box/triangle type shirt I drew everyone with). I never considered gender, though I never thought of myself as belonging to one.

But I rarely drew people. I liked drawing bears, houses, schoolrooms, and the like. If I did draw people, they were rarely myself. We had an assignment in kindergarten to draw ourselves both at the start of the year and at the end. My teacher was very, very concerned because my first picture was a ballerina and the second was a fireman.  😀

[King Malachite]

No.  I mostly drew pictures of guys with jeans and cats with sharp teeth

[harlee]

I actually still have some pictures I drew when I was younger. I didnt draw people that much, and when I did the only difference between boys and girls in my pictures was the length of hair 😛 This is the only picture I could find that I drew of myself holding a chicken!



Most of the time I used to draw animals

[Stefan]

I didn't really do self portraits but when I did draw it was always boys.

[spacial]

I recall drawing girls and boys, believing that everyone would think the boys represented me. Though, secretly, I was drawing myself as the girl.