Art is the language of vision.

Every child starts drawing the same way. Before a child can speak they begin to draw lines in their spaghetti sauce that they spit on the highchair at dinner. They scribble lines with beautiful colors on crisp white paper. Starting to observe shapes they draw a circle for a head and then extend lines from it to symbolize arms and legs. Eventually stick people emerge with details like hair, necks, fingers, shoes, etc. Shapes start to become real human forms and in an art class we learn how to draw facial features. We all start at the same spot. We observe as we grow older and the way we see something reflects how we produce art.

Here are pictures of my progression as a visual learner:

I believe this last one is from about 6th grade.