>>2829575>>2829627IMHO the burden of quick sketches and speed painting is something that I think is the pitfall of a lot of beginners. As usual, I blame the internet for it's spreading of shitty memes.
The number of pieces for the usual atelier student is not a whole lot - you're looking at a handful of drawings and oil paintings that each take months to complete, alongside a good number of short and long-pose figure drawings and paintings. Short poses typically have the shadows blocked in, but no rendering done, and long poses are of course fully rendered figures.
So you get a bit of everything in there in a (relatively) short amount of time - 3 to 5 years to attain a very, very proficient level of draftsmanship and painting.
Ateliers are obviously aware of the need for time constraints which is why they have students work with real fruits and vegetables and race against the clock before these perishables change and wither.
However, the process does instill in you a much slower, contemplative attitude when it comes to the work which I personally find very beneficial. It's not a race against the clock, you're either paying attention to what is in front of you or you're being lazy about it. And it's obvious.
It would be far more practical for someone learning to focus in, attentively, on what they are trying to achieve at that very moment, and attempt to take a piece to it's completion. Obviously fixing things in earlier stages helps, but this knowledge comes with experience as usual. The knowledge of how to position and move the wrist, elbow, arm and how to make the right lines and values develop from this.
