I always get burned out around the 10-hour mark with a long way to go. Any tips on getting faster?

Similar to how you don't draw a full figure to practice drawing hands. You draw hands to learn to draw hands.

30 minute class mode warm ups help. 10-30s sketches, 5-1m sketches, 2-5m sketchs, and one 10 min sketch. Focus on finishing the figure within the time limit. It pushes good practices in work flow. Line of action, gesture, anatomy, details. You also get faster and more accurate placing things initially and require less fixing up as you go.

Also, the more knowledge you have to pull from helps. Study anatomy. Loomis is great info, but boring for me. But the same info from Michael Hampton or Aaron Blaise is more digestible for me. Knowing the edges of the mouth are directly below the center of the eyes make such placement easier. Lots of these little tips add up.

Use timed study repetition for Anatomy. Study feet, draw what you learned in two days with no reference. Review what you forgot, go again in 5 days and again in a week. Reference is great, but you really know what you need to review when you test yourself with no reference.

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