A child's artistic potential is an innate ability that the child can develop over time. A child's drawing can be considered a good indicator of a child's intellectual, motor and emotional state. Creativity often stands out in children's art. There are certain factors that influence the development, but also hinder creativity. It is important that the environment in which the child lives is stimulating in order for the child to develop his creative abilities to the maximum. A child's artistic expression develops through four stages. Each of these stages continues one after the other and is related to the child's chronological age. The first phase is called the phase of expression with primary symbols or the phase of patterning. In this phase, children's work is based on patterns, which is why this phase got its name. The second stage is expression with complex symbols. At this stage, children use complex symbols, and the biggest change that occurs here is the representation of the human figure. The phase of intellectual realism is considered the golden age of children's creativity, because in this phase different characteristics of children's creativity appear. The last stage is called the stage of visual realism, and in this stage children's drawings resemble adult drawings. Through a child's drawing, one can observe how the representation of the human figure develops in stages. A child's drawing can serve as a communication mediator between the child and the environment. Hidden emotions can be read from children's drawings. It is important to follow the shapes, colors, lines in order to understand the message that the child is telling us through his own drawing. There are various drawing techniques that the child uses to convey this message. The child sometimes uses stencils in his drawing, but their use is very harmful because it represents a ready-made proposal that frees the child from his own thinking. The role of the teacher is important, as he must enable the development of the child's expressive abilities with appropriate content and methods. Through the analysis of children's drawings of students in the first and fourth grades, it can be concluded that some students are in the phase of artistic expression in which they should be, that is, in the phase of intellectual realism, while some students lag behind in relation to that stage or have already moved to the next phase of artistic expression.