This article seems (or attempts) to describe an artist's style. When you start out all you're doing is copying reality onto paper. That builds spatial awareness first, and interpretation (style) second. I can draw anyone's face and produce a perfectly accurate replica. I cannot, however, stylise that into a caricature. And that's why I'm no artist. This skill does have other uses however, like developing focus on detail whilst maintaining a sense of the whole.

Tongue in cheek, bit this makes me wonder sometimes whether artists like Dali skimped (or even skipped) the first, jumped to the second, producing something that resonated with a buying audience. As I said I'm not an artist, so all this may well be my imagination.