The key to mastering drawing is learning to see, instead of drawing symbols of what we think we see. From the age of five, most children in Hong Kong start to copy their favourite cartoon characters and lose their originality. They want to draw things real from the age of nine and they usually give up art forever if they cannot do that by the age of thirteen. Unfortunately, they lack formal instruction in a very rigid education environment with emphasis on left-brain development.

Drawing is actually teachable and learnable. Seeing is the problem: first, a mental shift from verbal and analytic left-brain mode to visual and perceptual right-brain mode in order to experience a focus in your awareness, and second, see things in an artist's way. So "learning to draw" means learning to make a mental shift from left-brain mode to right-brain mode.