>>7660152Yes but it's very easy to just mindlessly trace where you don't learn anything. To get anything out of it, you need a specific goal in mind. First copy without tracing, then analyze what is off. If you can tell that the proportions are off, draw the basic proportions by tracing over the reference and then overlay that over your drawing to see what was off. If you notice the legs were too short, you can try it again and pay attention to make sure they legs are long enough. You could repeat this for a couple different drawings and notice you always make the legs too short, so then you need to specifically focus on that.
Just tracing doesn't help that much unless you learn something while doing it, and apply what you learned to your drawings. I've seen it discourage some people too because they use it as a crutch every time and always compare their better traced drawings to their worse un-traced ones. So it can be a double-edge sword.
Also, there are lots of different types of tracing. Anatomy tracings, like in some of Prokos vids, were pretty helpful to me.
Tracing an ellipse guide or straight edge, trains your body to know the correct motion. Speeding up and slowing down to where you have the most control is useful to know too.
Tracing over line art you like. Just because you can get it in the right spot because your just tracing, you still have to pay attention to how thick the line is, how it stops and starts too. You can always tell when a beginner traces because their lines still suck, even when they are in the right spot.
