Can Tracing Art Help In Learning It?

Can Tracing Art Help In Learning It? Quite often beginner artists get discouraged from tracing existing images. With the justification, that it is some how wrong or worse still cheating! Yet, there are two points which I feel can justify using ‘tracing‘ as part of your learning process. When using tracing as part of the study process, opposed to ‘copying‘ the work of another artist.  It is an effective way to train your eyes to judge proportion and placement. And learning how to compose objects from lines, shapes and tones....

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