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The more you draw, the better. Draw everything you can.
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“The more you draw, the better. Draw everything you can.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Lost Prince
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1915
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Fictional character · Loristan
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Meaning of “The more you draw, the better. Draw everything…”

Repeated drawing is treated as the route to improvement, making practice and quantity of attempts part of developing a useful skill.

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The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. Loristan encourages Marco to strengthen a sketching ability useful to the story’s secret mission.

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Loristan encourages Marco’s sketching practice in The Lost Prince.

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