I trace out a stickman when starting a sketch, but it's just the stickman, I don't trace any of the detail or shapes.That's not so bad... right?..
Why would anyone care? It's not even bad to trace.
>>7904298I mean, they look like shit. If you cant draw stick figures without tracing u need the practice.
>>7904298Depends. What's the end result like?
>>7904298Esdeath is it you
Nobody cares
Can you show us the end result or do you draw 500 stickmen a day and nothing else
I think its fine as a study tool. The idea to keep in mind is that you want to learn spatial relationships and alignments. Look for the landmarks and try to familarise yourself with them.The thing I notice from picrel is that there is next to no foreshortening in these examples. Tracing the stick figure/ gesture will quickly become useless if you try that with more extreme perspective on the pose if you don't back it up with anatomical, proportional or perspective knowledge, so it's not the shortcut people might think it is. Without that knowledge, your end product is likely gonna be doo doo.
>>7904328>just trace bro, nobody is going to notice
>>7904533mm hmm
>>7904533the thing is, the artist who made this understands contour lines and the form of the subject already so it ends up looking better than if a noob traced it. The reason why art teachers tell you not to trace is so you can actually memorize forms intuitively
>>7904721I tell my students to trace appealing forms so they learn how to draw appealing forms
>>7904774how does it transfer to copying? i find that i can trace perfectly fine and when i move to copy its just wonky
>>7904774>my students/beg/?
