Thanks @Chris Legaspi !

It's always going to be harder to change mistakes when working with traditional media compared to digital media. Still, there's a few things that have helped me in the past in case you're curious: - A lot of mistakes can just be ignored! A single line will simply be lost in the overall impression of your picture if it is not connected to the rest. I mean that if you (e.g.) draw the elbow too far from the rest of the body, you can just ignore those lines and draw new lines in the right place, assuming that you haven't gone too far and shaded it in or otherwise made it essential to the rest of the drawing. Drawing lightly at first like you suggest is helpful! - When I'm trying to figure out placement and proportions, I sometimes just use little dots before putting full lines in. So, I might use dots for the corners of the eye and leave the rest of the eye blank whilst I ask myself if it looks right. With some practice, you can start to get good at guessing whether things are the right size and location from four dots - the leftmost point of whatever body part you're drawing, the rightmost point, the uppermost and the lowermost. I wouldn't suggest doing this for all your features always -- at least it's not a rule -- but it can help if you notice you often have issues with the same body part over and over again. - Using the above two ideas, you can sort of slowly close in on the drawing. It's hard (/impossible?) to judge whether something is the correct size and shape without context. The more context you have, the easier it will be. So it's good to get the rough placement of everything, before fully committing with a second more assertive pass through the drawing (if you have enough time to do it like that). - There are tools that make it easier to avoid mistakes in the first place -- I always try to use the rule of thirds and other rules like that. - I have plenty of drawings that I hated when I drew, due to mistakes that couldn't be fixed, but then looking at them again months later I really like them. So, there's also an argument for trying to accept your mistakes.

@Subham Sharma Great likenesses!

@Jonathan Musso Well I suppose if you make them too large then that also poses a challenge for drawing fast, since you have more space to cover. I'd say there's no single best size and that you can just be led by what feels comfortable unless you have a goal to draw really big. If the current size feels too small then I'd start by doubling it. Hopefully that feels nice and you like the end result. Once you like the end result, you can work towards smaller or larger sizes. This is just my opinion by the way!

Excellent work, really vivid from the initial drawing onwards. Definitely one that would grab your attention from across the room

@Janet Abrahams Wonderful, another strong painting from start to finish. Did you enjoy copying Velazquez?