The work carried out has recorded and analyzed the drawings of first year students of the Plastic Arts courses at the UNaM, in order to verify the learning processes they use in the elaboration of their graphic-plastic expressions, and the maturation times in the execution of their own image. Taking into account the time that initiates the process and considering the importance in the construction of a course that links research with teaching to determine the theoretical framework and the methodological process that occurs, starting from the rational form, to understand and assimilate the transition from realism, manifested in the observation of a model, to the synthesis and abstraction, produced by the destruction of the object or by the distortion of the form, the chiaroscuro, the color, the vision, the location. Holding that art enables us to express ourselves and in that sense, it cannot lack meaning, we understand that we must start from the visual phenomena that are familiar to the students after a methodological and systematic process that enables the elaboration of other forms, composing and inspiring the revelation of meanings.