>>6001114You trace to build your visual library, but then you never need to draw something twice anyways, so you're always building your visual library. The tracer tells of a time when he has traced everything that has ever existed, and only at that point will he not need to trace anymore.
Its like saying to become a math genius, just memorize every single equation, starting from 1+1, 1+2, 1+3 etc.