totallyDizny

We here at stop-tracing (https://www.deviantart.com/stop-tracing) have heard the excuses. This time, instead of knocking down the arguments that support tracing, I present to you reasons to not trace. -------------------------------------- 1. Tracers don't improve. Tracing is a really really good way to learn how to... um... trace. Any good art teacher will tell you this- it's simply not a good way to learn. So many professionals, teachers, drawing books, and so on and so forth will tell you one key thing: "draw from life." It helps. It looks like it's hard, but it does help immensely, and it's not so hard once you train your hand and eye to work together. When you're traci

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