>>5856932>Don't waste your time with Bargue plates. It's useless unless you want to copy details for a living.Don't confuse most people's way of using the Bargue plates vs. how to properly use the Bargue plate for training. They are an overall excellent teaching tool, especially for beginners, however incomplete.
Copying master works has always been the main way to teach and learn since the Renaissance; this also has been a major element for teaching Chinese painters in the past.
Besides, you have a few interesting points, but I think what you advise need to be more nuanced, for instance
>If we waste our little time grinding styles we don't like we will hardly improveIs not always true: at some point when you have build up some skills in one domain, you will have developed a comfort zone, and what you "like" will tend to be what is within your comfort zone, thus making it difficult to progress.
But yes, only drilling endlessly won't bring you that far and might disgust you from drawing. Yet, to master anatomy for instance, drilling is kinda mandatory, so learning to enjoy it/find way to enjoy it is recommended.
