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boys may draw their own images as they believe others see them... girls do not want to examine the way they look. Rather they want to keep drawing the ideal figures to satisfy their desires for what they want to be.
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Gestalt theory says that children tend to draw what they see rather than what they know (Eisner, 1967). On the contrary, there is another very famous theory that children tend to draw what they know rather than what they see (Goodenough, 1926). Which one is predominant? It may depend on subject. It may depend on cultural specificity. However, I would like to add to on these theories that children tend to draw based on attractiveness more than what they know or what they see. In other words, children tend to imitate the way in which nature and figures are drawn in cultural media rather than how they are seen through their own eyes.

Из Cross-cultural Analysis of Artistic Development: Drawing by Japanese and U.S. Children
Masami Toku