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7:18 AM, Wednesday August 19th 2020

I'd argue that you don't even need to apply what you are learning, only because this is what is said in lesson 0:

Not to learn, not to improve, not to develop your skills, not even to apply what you've already learned. There are no restrictions on medium, no specific techniques you must use, no subject matter you must focus on. Draw the things you'd draw if you were the most skilled artist in the world; draw the things your brain insists you're not ready to tackle just yet.

You have the complete freedom to draw as you wish. :)

11:18 PM, Wednesday August 26th 2020

The purpose is to help remind you about why you wanted to improve at drawing to begin with, so you that by the time you get good technical skills, it won't be hard for you to apply them to things. If I'm not mistaken, anyway

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