Even bad drawing is perfectly good

Students of all ages and drawing abilities will benefit from even the most basic sketches, therefore the quality of the drawing is essentially irrelevant. No matter how talented an artist one may be, painting while encoding has advantages. Drawing encourages the smooth integration of the elaborative, motoric, and visual components of a memory trace, which helps memory.

Drawing connects several memory strands, such as the visual memory of the image, the kinesthetic memory of the hand drawing the image, and the semantic memory of the notion being learnt, in contrast to more passive means of learning, such as listening to a lecture or reading a paper. Drawings are often helpful indicators of how well pupils comprehend the subject.