how you can give constructive feedback to anyone without directly:
1. identify the best (or least bad) element in the work
2. identify something improvable and say “I’d be curious to see what happens if you… (started with X / left out Y/etc)
3. lookin forward to the next one!
idk why we're expected to lie to kids. like it's very obviously not a good drawing. i know that, im pretty sure he knows that. why would i lie to his face, just because he's 5? if anything it's more important to tell him the truth now so that he has time to get better at it