The article raises the question of the conscious possibility of scientific visualization usage in a context of designers' education. The article considers the problem of mixing creativity (such as academic drawing) and computer technologies in the process of design students' education. This article underlines the priority of impressions and the secondariness of constructive specifications of images that may appear in the very beginning during the process of work with material. The material of the article covers such things like the nature of image appearance and presumable results of original ideas realization. The actual ideas of image appearance are given as a singularity of a gouache painting technique. According to the tradition of scho...