>>6026421it was the 00s, back then Tumblr bullshit was so ubiquitous people didn't do studies or used refs out of fear of being called a tracer, and those full scans of art books everyone just has lying around now weren't so you had to rely on tutorials like this to git gud or buy books, in which case it was the 00s, you were a massive weeb, and bought one of those "how to draw manga" ones who didn't help for shit