

Those that continued drawing in their teens will include more involved patterns and complex symbolic representations, while people who maintained an interest in creative expression may create intricate doodles and complete drawings. People who stopped drawing very early will tend to limit their doodles to repetitive geometric forms and the learned symbols from their childhood. In the early teens, when realistic expression and detail become important, children keenly feel an inadequacy in their ability to draw realistically, and stop drawing. They might add more complex forms later but rarely learn observational drawing. It looks more complicated than it is, and the site provides a tutorial to make it easier. Simple squares, rectangles, and circles come together to create a cool, realistic machine.

Children learn a set of formal symbols: the face, house, sun, moon, flower, tree, bird, fish, and basic geometric shapes that are established in early primary school. Doodle this cute cartoon robot using basic shapes. Usually, we have a limited visual vocabulary that we have at our disposal depending on the age at which our artistic development stalled. When we are otherwise occupied - on the phone, in a meeting or lecture, writing a list - basically, any moderately engaging mental activity with a pen in our hand the censor in our head can be turned off, and we allow ourselves to express the ideas that are locked in our head.
