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>I posted in your other thread on another board
Yeah, I noticed, thanks! I really liked /beg/ and /fig/, and who knows how long it’ll take (if ever) for them to come back. The goal is to keep an anonymous, critique based art banter site. I’ve tried other sites, and honestly, not being anonymous and ephemeral really sucks.
About tracing, it’s just a tool. It’s great for finding proportions and angles when studying or when transferring your work to another medium, e.g., paper to canvas. If it's used to replicate finished art, I find it becomes too linear and lacks a real thinking process. When you draw organically, you jump all over the place, like starting with the chest and moving to the feet to keep the balance and proportions.
What I do is trace big shapes to analyze the work, in my example, check proportions then use that information to make a copy as fast as possible, compare it to the original, take notes, and do it again.
Keep up the good work, anon. Don’t get discouraged. I’d recommend drawing along with rodgon the artist. He streams, and his sessions are insightful and focused on quantity, you’ll get a lot of mileage.