as carefully as the trees themselves. Notice where dark and light areas meet, where branches create unusual curves and where apparently empty patches of snow contribute to larger shapes. The goal is not to find a perfectly drawn face but to recognize how several unrelated-looking elements can combine into one.
This approach involves paying attention to what designers and artists often call negative space. Negative space is the area around and between visible objects, and it can become just as important as the objects themselves when creating an illusion. A
