According to a study by the University of Edinburgh and King's College London, children who develop drawing or creative skills at the age of four tend to be brighter in their teenage years.

They studied pictures drawn by more than 15,000 four-year-olds. Those who drew with the most skills were likely to do better in intelligence tests a decade later.

In order to conclude the theory, four-year-old children were asked to draw a picture of a child so that a proper assessment can be done based on drawing skills. Each figure was given a score between 0 and 12 depending on the presence of features such as a head, nose, ears, hair, body and arms.

Children who included clothing were also given extra credits. However, proportion was ignored. After, the drawing was completed, that the same time they were made to give verbal and non-verbal intelligence tests.

This procedure was again repeated at the age of 14.A correlation was then founded by the researchers between the drawing scores and the two sets of intelligence scores.

They also conducted research on 7,750 pairs of identical and non-identical twins. A strong link between genetics and artistic talent was found, which concludes that identical twins are much more likely to draw pictures of a similar quality than non-identical ones.

Dr. Rosalind Arden, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said, "Through drawing, we are attempting to show someone else what's in our mind. But this does not mean parents need to worry". It is really important that parents do not think, "Oh no, my child is terrible at drawing, they will be flipping burgers for the rest of their life".

She also concluded that the human ability to produce unique figures is a sign of cognitive ability, in a similar way to writing, which transformed the human species' ability to store information and build a civilization.