Analyzing pictures drawn by examinees is well-known in the field of clinical psychology and developmental psychol-ogy. As it is practiced in terms of analysis on psychological conditions or in terms of examination of the development of children's drawing, the graphic characteristics of the figures contained in examinees' pictures are not much regarded. Considering the further possibility on communicative com-petence through pictorial media, we can start with looking at the pictures drawn by the villagers in Lao P.D.R. and examine the graphic characteristics of their pictures. As the result of analysis, the pictures by villagers, which are not prepossessed with knowledge or theories of descriptive ge-ometry, show the different representations from descriptive geometry such as 3-surfaces representation, or 2-directions picture. Furthermore, while they show some resemblances to children's drawings, some figures are less distorted than children's ones.
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