The present study evaluates the discriminating ability and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Draw-A-Person Questionnaire (DAPQ). The DAPQ is an instrument that uses both free-response and fixed-response methodologies and has been recently translated into Spanish. A group of 60 psychiatric patients of Latin American origin is compared to a sample of matched Latino comparison participants. Participants are closely matched by gender, age, education level, and perceived ethnic identification. The results on the Spanish version of the DAPQ are similar to those of the English version. The Spanish DAPQ is able to differentiate psychiatric inpatients from a normal comparison group. The psychiatric group has significantly more negative scores and more socially undesirable answers when describing their figures than the matched sample does.