“I think there’s something really beautiful in being able to reduce stuff down to its essence. My favorite example is a picture of a house. You can draw a square with a triangle on top and immediately the vast majority of people will recognize it to be a house,” Davey told Gestalten. “I always draw animals with shapes and try to think of their body or head shapes as a whole before I get into the nitty-gritty details. Once you have the overarching shape of them pinned down, the rest comes much easier, and you don’t end up with a strange skew-whiff version of the creature.”

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“I think there’s something really beautiful in being able to reduce stuff down to its essence. My favorite example is a picture of a house. You can draw a square with a triangle on top and immediately the vast majority of people will recognize it to be a house,” Davey told Gestalten. “I always draw animals with shapes and try to think of their body or head shapes as a whole before I get into the nitty-gritty details. Once you have the overarching shape of them pinned down, the rest comes much easier, and you don’t end up with a strange skew-whiff version of the creature.”

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