Visual Learning Lab · UC San Diego
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Children's Drawing Datasets
Interactive tools for exploring a large dataset of children's drawings — tens of thousands of sketches across dozens of object categories, produced by children ages 2–10. See how drawings of the same concept change with age, watch them unfold stroke by stroke, and explore how a model recognizes them.
~37,770 drawings from 48 categories laid out in CLIP embedding space and colored by model recognizability. Filter by category, age, and recognizability; recompute the layout on any selection.
Open the map →Watch drawings draw themselves one stroke at a time, with each stroke colored by its semantic part (body, ear, wheel…) and inter-annotator agreement. Compare two categories side by side.
Open the player →Children's drawings of sea animals shown alongside the descriptions children gave of what they drew — linking how a concept is drawn to how it is described.
Open the explorer →Long, B., Fan, J. E., Huey, H., Chai, Z., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Parallel developmental changes in children's production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts. Nature Communications. Paper · Data (OSF) · Code