You have to understand anime culture.
Getting parts of it.
My son spends more than half his free time drawing and creating anime stills and sets of frames to create a story with Japanese subtitles or bubble captions. He also draws out "perspective exaggerated" paper "things" which (look like NOTHING) which he colors and cuts out and folds into a primitive style of origami character.
I can not know how he can see in the dimensions he does, but he draws out this weird looking crazy shit, colors it with pen and crayon, then cuts it out and folds it in 3D to stand on its own, look human and portray a very feeling character. Other times he just starts with the scissors and you have no clue as to what he is doing.
He still has trouble making eyes look right (all his character's eyes mostly face away from the viewer- to his comfort, I see - always have, even in his dinosaur drawings which were far less sophisticated than these 3D folded pieces). But to see him just start cutting something out, from a blank piece of paper, then draw in details and color and shade it while it is flat, THEN fold it to make something that stands on its own, etc, all anime looking.
I am astounded with his vision and concept of perspective. He has graduated from "dinosaurs and all things scaly."
He now draws girls, mostly.
He also has developed an amazing Japanese vocabulary just from being online trying to explore the anime culture, mostly on his own.
I probably need to get more of all.
