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ITT: The best and the worst advice you have heard and heeded.

Best Advice I took
> Be a tight ass when it comes to placing lines.
> Move from the arm, not the wrist.
> Use live models and photos as references.
These get repeated a lot, but if you are not doing this already, just do it and just see the difference in your work!

Worst Advice I heard
> The Manga style is almost entirely used for androgynous male characters, female characters and children.
From ImagineFX How To Draw and Paint Manga. I leave you to figure out if or how it's wrong.

Worst Advice that I actually took and wasted my time on
> Doing the kind of exercises in Drawing on the right side of the brain.
Her concept of turning on the "right side" is actually good advice (gotta quit that symbol drawing), but I can't figure out why the exercises didn't help me improve at all. I actually almost gave up drawing because of that.