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When to begin doing warm-ups?

9:22 PM, Friday January 21st 2022

I'm part-way through Lesson 1. I've heard Uncomfortable mention repeatedly that the exercises we're doing now will end up in a pool of exercises from which we will pull 2 or 3 to use during a 15 minute warm-up period at the beginning of each drawing session; but I don't recall him mentioning when we would begin implementing that warm-up period.

Am I just missing the obvious fact that we're always expected to warm-up prior to a drawing session (for DAB exercises), or is there a later point in the lessons at which we will be instructed to begin warming-up?

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3:36 PM, Saturday January 22nd 2022

Generally once a lesson has been marked as complete, showing that we understand what to strive for with each given exercise, we can add those exercises to "the pool".

Therefore, you'll first add exercises to the pool you pull from for your warmups once Lesson 1 is marked as complete by someone else. Prior to that there really isn't anything to warm up with.

8:03 PM, Saturday January 22nd 2022

Okay, thanks for clarifying that.

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3:36 PM, Saturday January 22nd 2022

Lesson 1 felt like such a fundamental lesson that I didn't do warm ups before I worked on it. It seemed silly to practice making lines before I practiced making lines. After I turned in lesson 1 homework, the exercises in it became my warm up. After lesson 2, I added exercises from that lesson to my warm up also.

8:05 PM, Saturday January 22nd 2022

Yeah, it would seem sort of silly to practice making lines before . . . practicing making lines :) Thanks for your response, Drusk.

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