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Uncomfortable's Unsolicited Advice: A Box a Day Keeps the Demon Away

Added 2016-06-18 17:46:53 +0000 UTC

I made another comic strip! This time it's about the importance of continuing to practice the exercises from lessons 1 and 2 regularly, and the idea that you're never *done* practicing your most basic technical skills. When I mark a lesson as complete, all it means is that you understand the goal and purpose of the exercises, not that you've come close to mastering them.

In truth, no one ever truly masters the exercises, and it's all too possible for one to get rusty if they don't practice them for a while. So, what I always recommend is to pick two or three exercises from the first two lessons each time you sit down to draw - you don't have to do them in any great quantity, just dedicate something like 15 minutes to warming up with them. Then you can move onto your work for that day.

There's two major benefits - in the short term, you'll be warmed up, and will find less resistance as you begin to move onto your main work. In the long term, you'll continue strengthening your fundamentals bit by bit every day, and this will inevitably show in your more advanced work.