The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
“I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.”
“I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.”