I feel "mileage" is useful in any activity that you're trying to improve at. However, I don't think its the most efficient way to improve, at least on it's own. Your golf swing experience is actually a perfect example . Learning, practicing, and refining helped you so much more than just hitting thousands of balls would have. Learning and understanding the fundamentals will greatly help reduce the "luck factor" of success or failure when putting in that mileage. When you succeed, you'll know and understand why and try to reinforce those habits. When you fail, you'll be able to understand what you did incorrectly and can make adjustments and focus on improving. If the fundamentals are never learned or practiced then performing that task is going to be much more inconsistent. Success is going to feel a bit more reliant on luck and more difficult to replicate without the knowledge and understanding of how you achieved those results. Failures are going to feel worse without knowing what was done improperly or how to get improved results. Like you mentioned, you also risk reinforcing these bad habits through repetition. I'm learning that either way, success or failure, the answer seems to always circle back to "did I correctly perform the fundamentals?" For the gesture drawings, I'd advise don't go so fast to where you lose control but try to just get the gesture down using simple lines (CSI). Then, once you have an understanding of the process, you can challenge yourself by trying to do it quicker.

My submission for Proko Light and Color challenge. Meerkats 8x10 acrylic on canvas

Here is my submission for Sketching light and color Proko challenge. This is a color study I painted while visiting family in Tallahassee 400x600 pixels done in Procreate, 1hr30mins. I just completed The Color Survival Guide course by @Marco Bucci about a week ago. I’ve struggled with adding color in my art for as long as I can remember but this course completely changed that for me. It’s only been a handful of days and color studies but I already feel more confident and motivated to create interesting and believable color with my art!

I really enjoyed the series as well! I was already a League of Legends fan getting into it but was very pleased how everything turned out. Fortiche Productions took it to another level with their animation as everything looked amazing. Riot has so much good lore from League of Legends that hopefully we'll get to see more of their stories in the future.