7TH-+3-Step+Abstraciton

=Three(3)-Step Abstraction=

(AKA- "Deconstruction")

 * 1) First, find an image that's about 4"x5" that's not too complicated, but not too simple.
 * 2) Fold a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper in half twice, creating four equally sized rectangles for yourself
 * 3) Glue your original image (preferably in the top-left corner)
 * 4) Next to it, draw it as accurately and realistically as you are able. Take your time and draw slowly. If it helps, you may want to look at it upside-down. You'll be surprised at how much easier that is and how much better most people are then able to draw just about anything.
 * 5) Now, in the lower, left quadrant, draw it again, but this time, abstract it. That is, simplify it and feel free to stylize it some. In other words, make it more "cartoony."
 * 6) Finally, in the last quadrant, simplify it even more. In fact, try to boil the image down into it's most simple, geometric shapes- to the point that it almost seems "non-objective," that is, to the point where viewers can no longer tell what it is you were abstracting.