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7:57 PM, Wednesday February 12th 2020

I'd tell them to go and draw the stuff they really want and to come back when they again feel the need to improve further. That's what I ended up doing.

The need for DaB or any of the fundamentals won't ever go away. At worst they are only postponing the inevitable, or just quit drawing althogether. But that's kinda their decision to make, not your responsability.

12:59 PM, Thursday February 13th 2020

Super fair! That's probably the best advice, to just turn the 50% rule into the 100% rule. I think the reason why I haven't done that before is that they often express a desire to improve in a way that DaB could help but they want/need to find that help elsewhere.

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