The phrase "a basic picture of how" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to provide a simple or fundamental understanding of a concept or process.
Example: "This report aims to provide a basic picture of how climate change affects global weather patterns."
Alternatives: "a simple overview of how" or "a fundamental understanding of how".
"The finding that much of the regular stuff is WHIM-sical and that it is associated with the largest-scale structures seen in galaxies is a confirmation of the basic picture of how the regular stuff in the universe is predicted to behave in such a universe".
Scientists already have a basic picture of the machinery that creates head-tail and front-back differences.
Figure 1 provides a basic picture of the dynamics of indirect reciprocity in the simple image scoring model.
The canonical picture of how cells crawl on a planar substrate is that of a sequential four-step process [ 35].
We just have to be able to draw a basic picture which is free of paradoxes.
This report has focused on a few, highly selected experimental areas but the Hormones and Cancer Meeting actually covered topics from the bench to the bedside and back again to give a full picture of how research into basic mechanisms can be translated into new more effective and specific treatments for breast and other steroid-dependent cancers.
Or take the classic Civilization – it gives you a basic but very solid picture of how human progress works.
And by including a more realistic set of expenses, it offers an improved picture of how the cost of basic needs contributes to poverty.
The report, For every child, a fair chance: The promise of equity, presents a statistical picture of how the world's most marginalized children have fared against basic human development indicators.
The earliest picture in the show, "The Madonna," dates from 1982 and gives a basic sense of how Mr. Condo works.
