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user-inactivated  ·  4257 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you do to improve your skills?

I took a ceramics class in high school and we had some time left at the end, so the teacher taught us all the fundamentals of good pencil drawing. After a maximum of ten hours spread over a couple of weeks spent messing with perspective and colors and whatnot, I was at least 300 times better and more confident with sketching. The difficulty curve gets steep eventually, I'm sure, but with drawing a tiny amount of instruction and practice was enough to where I was proud to show my drawings to other people.