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Consider what drawing means to you, or what style really is important.

Sketching is very much vibrant, alive, well and creative. With many, many books dedicated to that direction.

Life drawing same things.

Which "drawing" direction attracts you?

This is pushing it a bit but there are lists like:

https://webneel.com/different-types-of-drawing-styles-techni...

https://finearttutorials.com/guide/drawing-styles

A more likely approach is to consider which artists you like and what they do. If it is perspective in travel sketches that interests you, then don't waste time on classical anatomy.

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"If it is perspective in travel sketches that interests you, then don't waste time on classical anatomy." Mild disagreement here. I'm personally more interested in landscape drawing and painting, but for practice I turn to faces and figures, preferably life drawing. It's much harder to tell whether your perspective drawing is a little off than to sense that there is something wrong with the proportions in a life drawing or a Bargue exercise.

That's interesting. I do both city view landscapes (from nature, on site) and life drawing sessions and short portraits and to me the two are so different that I don't feel the skills transfer. And "quick sketches" on the street are different still.

For life drawing, IMO we have super sharp intuition for a face or body being "wrong" in its proportions. And except if you are an american superhero comic book artist we have only a little intuition that shape detail is not quite right. And getting that perfect is seriously hard - that's classical anatomy drawing territory. I pay attention to proportions but I sure don't obsess about modelling except where it "defines" the person - like sharp cheekbones or chin perhaps. And that's not classical anatomy stuff - just the basics. For landscape by constrast for me, it's about being able to abstract it while not making a blatant perspective mistake. And I don't feel that's an intuition problem for most people. More analytic. Anyway :-)

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