e of six (Wilson, 1977, p. 5). They however, learned by interviewing dozens of art students, that the way they learned to draw was similar to the way we learn verbal signals (Wilson, 1977, p. 6). As the article goes on to show, children remember images based on different programs, much like computer programs, that run in their heads. Thus a child who has drawn dogs for many years, even those dog figures which were copied from pre-existing cultural images, were more adept at drawing dog figures than those students who, for example, had only practiced drawing faces, or horses, as children. They surmised that children don't "memorize horse configurations while drawing dogs." (Wilson, 1977, p. 10).
One boy in particular was able to easily visualize figures in forms previously unknown to him because he had practiced drawing figures in numerous positions for years and that that student had already previously memorized how to draw many figurative
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