A 2017 Cognitive Science study found that adults who copied an unfamiliar artist’s drawing first went on to create more original work than those who started from a blank page, complicating the advice to always let kids draw free of any model.

The path to original thinking may run through imitation, not around it. The post A 2017 Cognitive Science study found that adults who copied an unfamiliar artist’s drawing first went on to create more original work than those who started from a blank page, co…