What Would You Draw?
If you were told to draw a sun in elementary school, there was really only one default way to go about it. After choosing a yellow crayon, you would draw a single arc in the corner of a blank piece of paper. And there you have it—a sun. Simple. Default. Uniform. A bird, instead of having feathers and beaks and claws, became a squiggle of what looked like two half-circles stuck together. Drawing a landscape of grass became a single line of green across the page. In an elementary schooler’s eyes, everything is two-dimensional. As you grow older, however, things start to look different. Perspective develops as we graduate from two-dimensional shapes to three-dimensional figures. Now, you are no longer allowed to hide behind simplicity. When asked to draw a simple landscape now, many of us would opt to make more complex drawings, because we have all developed a unique way of processing our surroundings. There are no longer the same mandatory components that we have to check off: A sun, gra...