Many people believe that progress happens during:

• learning
• practice

❌ But it doesn’t really work like that.
Progress is not about how many drawings you make, and not even about how many lessons you watch

✔️ Progress happens when you can see, understand, and fix your mistakes

For example, to draw fashion sketches well, you mainly need to fix around 100 common mistakes in your work

By the way, I’m planning to create a checklist of these mistakes soon 👀

Making mistakes is normal

Even if you:

• study a lot
• learn new things
• practice regularly

👉 you will still make mistakes. And that’s completely okay.
If you can see your own mistakes, that’s actually a great sign

It means:
you already understand something,
but the knowledge hasn’t fully turned into skill yet

1. lack of knowledge

2. lack of experience

If you don’t know:

• how balance works in a figure
• how form is built
• how volume is constructed

👉 you simply won’t see your mistake, because you don’t know what to look for

Conclusion 1. Your ability to see mistakes grows with your knowledge

Conclusion 2. When a professional artist says: "this drawing is not good" —it’s not fishing for compliments 😅
It’s just a deeper understanding of fundamentals.

Conclusion 3. This stage is hard to overcome alone. You usually need a teacher to show you what you don’t even notice yet

✔️ Best option: take a good course
If that’s not possible — spend some time on YouTube.

Even just watch how others draw and listen to their explanations.

Here, you already understand “how it should be” — but you can’t do it consistently yet.

This is where you need to try to draw better and correct your mistakes.

The most effective way is to get feedback from someone more experienced. Or join a course with homework reviews.

If that’s not an option, here are a few helpful methods:


1. Study your reference very carefully
Look at what matches — and what doesn’t.
This helps you better understand:

• color
• folds
• shapes

It sounds simple, but many people skip this step

2. Flip your drawing horizontally
Take a photo and mirror it on your phone.
👉 Your brain stops “recognizing” the image
→ and you instantly see asymmetry, proportions, and mistakes.
I still use this method all the time

3. Turn your drawing upside down
No phone needed — just rotate the paper.
👉 This helps you stop seeing the drawing as a person or an outfit
→ and start seeing it as shapes, lines, and proportions instead.

4. Long-term method
Don’t throw away your old works. Even the ones you don’t like.
Save them. Come back later (in a month, 6 months, a year), and you will see:

• mistakes you didn’t notice before
• your actual progress
• how your thinking has changed

This method is also very satisfying psychologically — because you can clearly see your growth

It took about 2 years to go from “I’m starting to get it” to my first real “wow” result.
My students go through the same process in a few months, because I help them see what matters.

My point is:
❌ You can create hundreds of drawings and still not improve.

✔️ Or you can break down just one — and level up

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