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The authors analyze the specifics of the process of imaging from nature including looking at nature on the basis of mental cognitive processes, the system of setting the educational-cognitive tasks and the graphic activity itself. These components gradually form the components of cognitive process of the student which later transform to his/her professional qualities. In article it is noted that drawing as a form of art-figurative cognition always involves studying a model for portrayal and accumulation of a certain material in the course of portrayal. Representing nature, the artist makes it an object of cognition and creates an image of this object. Thus, studying the model leads to the formation of the art-figurative ideas, which are materialized in the artistic images. So, on the basis of professional specifics of graphic activity, it is possible to assume that any system of portrayal represents a method of practical art-figurative cognition of the world around by means of which the subject learns its qualities and features (regularities of existence) which are required for the solution of specific tasks of the portrayal of nature. Moreover, the person learns reality not only to master it, reflect its objective features but also to express an emotional attitude towards it. The authors note that the process of art-figurative cognition coincides with the direction of development of the perception process: from the sensory, concrete perception to comprehension of the essence of phenomenon and also passes through generalization in some stages: process of perception of a subject, formation in consciousness of a graphic image of the subject, a choice of a graphic form of representation and practical realization by technical means on paper.