Abstract
The purpose of this research is to examine the kind of pictures that current junior high school students want to draw. We examined pictures from two perspectives: realism and individualism. To achieve our purpose, we presented junior high school students with a questionnaire regarding drawings during art class. One of the questions asked participants to select one of three drawings of varying levels of realism that he/she would like to draw him/herself. The ratio of students who selected the most realistic drawing was about the same as the ratio of students who selected the least realistic drawing. These results suggest that current junior high school students favor both drawings with high levels of realism and drawings with low levels of realism.
