Hey!

[John]

I was doing pencil copies years back. Fully rendered, copy the reference to the best of my abilities. They were horrible. I remember just white knuckling through that obstacle course. Boy did I hate it..

But I kinda learn to love doing Bargue copies now... So it kinda worked out in the end, now that I understand what the exercise meant. Especially now that I'm seeing the mistakes I've made on those drawings. It was so frustrating to know that my work looks wrong yet can't quite put my finger on it to fix it.

Talking about the craft with someone else. People pointing me towards good articles, tutorials and reference gave me a better appreciation towards doing life studies, photo copies, etc...

I got this link (http://www.dorian-iten.com/accuracy/) from fellow members. And that got me to enjoy the process more. If I remember correctly, think it was OtherMuzz, Adam Lina, Amit Dutta, Tristan Berndt, all dagger members btw, who pointed me that direction. Stating their names out just in case you're looking for who to ask about all this. All of them nice people!