Not so much silly in the sense of silly, but silly in terms of time spent I suppose.
I want to get better at drawing, so I'm reading art books, I just read The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and at the start and end you draw a self portrait. I sucked before, and truly, I still suck, but I suck notably less.

((Also if it helps my case any, instead of using a mirror I tilted my turned off laptop and used that reflection...))

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