Sample Report - Example Only

Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS)

This example shows the structure and evidence limits of a complete InnerCanvas report. It is not an assessment of the viewer.

Try This Test - Free
Example drawing: Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS)
Product-created example drawing. No real user's content is shown.

Observation before interpretation

What is visibly present

  • The single board is divided into three completed panels.
  • The first panel is a free composition; the second contains a tree.
  • The third panel uses repeated lines, shapes, and colors to represent a current feeling.

Possible reflections

  • Comparing formal choices across the three tasks may support a conversation about process and expression.
  • DDS research does not justify converting those choices into a diagnosis or fixed personality profile.

Questions worth exploring

  1. What changed as you moved between the three panels?
  2. Which panel felt most direct or least planned?
  3. How did the third panel represent your own meaning?

Research and methodology

Evidence strength: limited and context-dependent

Limitations

  • DDS studies have used clinical and culturally bounded samples.
  • Scoring agreement is not proof of diagnostic accuracy.
  • This product does not reproduce clinical DDS classification.

Sources

  1. The diagnostic drawing series: A systematic approach to art therapy evaluation and research1988DOI
  2. Reliability and validity tests of the diagnostic drawing series1993DOI