As I've since discovered that unless I go to stuff, I will remain a lazy bugger, I've decided to start attending life drawing classes whenever possible. The first one was last week on Thursday and though it was gratifying to see I haven't entirely forgotten all my past art lessons, it was a bit mortifying to find that I still lapsed into my old tricks: I've been doing only comics for so long that I'm used to just making up whatever looks right and exaggerating to what I need to match, rather than drawing what's actually there.
I also realised I'd forgotten certain lessons from life drawing sessions of the past ie how to do three minute drawings (use charcoal) and how to do 20 minute ones (use the hardest pencil you've got). The first three minute one, I barely got round to doing a sketchy outline and one of the 20 minute drawings is more like the sort of thing I should have got out of the three minutes.
At least the shading was pretty.
