Category: Little Seven

Now auditioning for the role of L7 Adam (8 yrs old) …

Little John & Little Ludwig are both 10 years old.

Pictures showing 5th grade boys …

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CDC Growth Charts information:

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/charts.htm

 

The following notes are taken from: Height Measurement in Children

Exam: Normal Height increases per year (Linear Growth Velocity)

• Birth length …. Average: birth length: 20 inches (50 cm) …. Length doubles by age 4 years … Length triples by age 13 years
• First year growth: 9-11 inches (23-27 cm)
• Second year growth: 4-6 inches (10-14 cm)
• Third year growth: 3-4 inches (7.5 – 10 cm)
• Annual growth until Puberty: 2-3 inches (6-7 cm)
• Prepuberty growth: 2 inches (5 cm)
• Pubertal growth … Boys: 4-6 inches (10-14 cm) … Girls: 3-5 inches (8-12 cm)

Normal Heights for boys (range: 3% to 97%)

• Age 1 year: 28-32 inches, mean: 76 cm (30 in)
• Age 2 years: 33-37 inches, mean: 88 cm (35 in)
• Age 3 years: 36-41 inches, mean: 95 cm (38 in)
• Age 4 years: 38-44 inches, mean: 103 cm (41 in) 4yo Adam
• Age 5 years: 40-47 inches, mean: 110 cm (44 in)
• Age 6 years: 43-50 inches, mean: 116 cm (46 in)
• Age 7 years: 45-53 inches, mean: 121 cm (48 in)
• Age 8 years: 47-55 inches, mean: 127 cm (51 in) L7 Adam (8)
• Age 9 years: 49-57 inches, mean: 132 cm (53 in)
• Age 10 years: 51-59 inches, mean: 137 cm (55 in) L7 John, L7 Ludwig
• Age 11 years: 53-61 inches, mean: 143 cm (57 in) L7 Frederic
• Age 12 years: 54-64 inches, mean: 150 cm (60 in) L7 Thomas
• Age 13 years: 56-67 inches, mean: 156 cm (62 in) L7 Ari
• Age 14 years: 57-70 inches, mean: 163 cm (65 in)
• Age 15 years: 60-72 inches, mean: 169 cm (68 in)
• Age 16 years: 62-73 inches, mean: 173 cm (69 in)
• Age 17 years: 63-74 inches, mean: 68 inches

Age 18 years: 177 cm (71 in)

Normal Height for Girls (range: 3% to 97%)

• Birth: 18.5-21.1 inches, mean: 50 cm (20 in)
• Age 1 years: 27-31 inches, mean: 73 cm (29 in)
• Age 2 years: 32-37 inches, mean: 85 cm (34 in)
• Age 3 years: 35-40 inches, mean: 95 cm (38 in)
• Age 4 years: 38-44 inches, mean: 103 cm (41 in)
• Age 5 years: 40-47 inches, mean: 108 cm (43 in)
• Age 6 years: 43-49 inches, mean: 115 cm (46 in)
• Age 7 years: 45-52 inches, mean: 120 cm (48 in)
• Age 8 years: 47-54 inches, mean: 125 cm (50 in)
• Age 9 years: 49-56 inches, mean: 130 cm (50.5 in) L7 Ayn
• Age 10 years: 50-59 inches, mean: 138 cm (55 in)
• Age 11 years: 52-62 inches, mean: 143 cm (57 in)
• Age 12 years: 54-65 inches, mean: 150 cm (60 in)
• Age 13 years: 57-66 inches, mean: 155 cm (62 in)
• Age 14 years: 58-67 inches, mean: 158 cm (63 in)
• Age 15 years: 59-68 inches, mean: 158 cm (63 in)
• Age 16 years: 59-68 inches, mean: 159 cm (64 in)
• Age 17 years: 60-68 inches, mean: 160 cm (64 in)

Placing 9 year old L7 Ayn on the chart

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http://learn-how-to-draw-now.com/How-To-Draw-Women-Men-Children-Part-4.html

http://www.idrawdigital.com/2009/01/drawing-the-human-form-proportions-from-child-to-adult/

Proportions between adults and children

Note the following proportion differences:

• Adult = 8 heads tall, with a head size of 9 inches
• 15 year old = 7 1/2 heads tall with a head size of 9 inches
• 10 year old = 7 heads tall with a head size of 7 1/2 inches
• 5 years old = 6 heads tall with a head size of 7 inches
• 3 years old = 5 heads tall with a head size of 6 1/2 inches
• 1 year old = 4 heads tall with a head size of 6 inches

(Prodos: Above chat, not that accurate, but conveys the idea)

http://maramattiaart.blogspot.com/2009/01/lesson-11-linear-perspective-in-drawing.html

http://artintegrity.wordpress.com/category/figure-drawing/

Section on sketching children. Discusses body proportions at different ages:

http://train-srv.manipalu.com/wpress/?p=118262

Here is an extract from “Painting and Drawing Children” by John Norton:

Children’s figure proportions are vastly different from those of adults.

The height of a newborn baby is four times the length of its head.

While a full-grown adult is between seven and a half and eight heads tall.

Because the thyroid is still small, the neck of a child is quite short and almost contiguous with the shoulders.

As compared with those of an adult, the limbs of a child are short in relation to the torso.

Consequently, the mid-height of a very young child occurs at the level of the navel, while that of an adult is located in the pubic region. As the child grows, the limbs lengthen and these proportions change significantly.

At the age of one year, a child is fouir and a half heads tall; from then until the age of six the body grows to five or five and a half time times the length of the head.

The mid-height at age six is located between the navel and the pubic bone.

From ten to fifteen years of age the body reaches between six and seven heads in height.

Since the proportions of arms to body is by this time the same in children as in adults, a child’s hands reach almost to the middle of the thigh when the arm hangs at the side of the figure.

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