Use six painting themes to execute the study of comparative of pictorial form in Chinese college students of Taiwan, China and Malaysia. Comparative analysis is adopted to analyze the symbol of “pictorial schema.” Research is in accordance with the paintings questionnaire figured by college students from Taiwan, China and Malaysia, to generalize its common features and characteristics of graphic symbol under specific themes; and analysis the difference in cognition of sub-cultural features and aesthetic feelings due to social environment transition. This study is based on semiotics laid by Ferdinand de Saussure, to categorize paintings collected by questionnaires into three group: icon, index and symbol. Corresponds aesthetic feeling and vocabulary form of pictorial semiotics to schema in cognitive Psychology, to inspect if we can generalize common features and characteristics of cognition under the same theme, or distinguish the difference of symbol and aesthetic form on paintings between youths from diverse areas. The result shows the influence of style exactly exist because of different educational background, personal capability, and diverse taste between youths in three countries. Nevertheless, there is no significantly symbolic feature emerged due to the influence of social culture in difference areas. Moreover, visual symbols of youths present similar visual vocabularies in this age. Some paintings reveal cross-over, global cognitive symbols; to learn that internet symbols and animation makes an effect upon young generation. Findings of this study can act as a basis of future researches and imply a trend of investigating cognition schema of symbol and graphic aesthetic presentation.