All of my post secondary art instructors were very old school that way. None of them taught even grid enlargement until we had been doing still life and live drawing for quite some time.

I don't have a problem with tracing, but that's not what my art teachers taught. We were all about drawing from life.

...stir?

Sorry; your site looks so slick, but with typos in the header...

Coned? Rouge's gallery?