People who can't draw typically don't draw what they see (or visualize). They draw symbols or icons. To draw a face, they draw a mouth, a nose and a couple of e

People who can't draw typically don't draw what they see (or visualize). They draw symbols or icons. To draw a face, they draw a mouth, a nose and a couple of eyes. A house is a box with a door and some windows, etc. Pretty much everything they draw for the first time will be goofy, unless they can fall back on a standardized set of icons they have picked up from other drawings. They just don't have the skill to go from what they visualize to a drawing without the reduction to icons in between.