Other people's work, however, I could reproduce fine. Our first homework assignment was to try drawing famous cartoon characters, to get a sense of how other artists do eyes, mouths, heads, and so forth. (These were not traced, just eyeballed.) Perhaps, I reasoned, I just needed to get to know my characters a little better, to understand exactly what about their faces gave them their personalities, and I could do better. (Eventually, I did.)
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