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A matter related to miniatures and drawing skills . . .
For a few years, a few years ago, I was expected to do three hours of life drawing every day, from 9 to noon. Two of those days were charcoal in large format (usually about 36 x 18 or 24 inches), and three were in pencil, in much smaller format (usually with the entire figure no more than 12 inches in any extension.)
The express training purpose of working smaller, with very fine lines, was to force us to be accurate. In large format, you might get away with a 10% error, depending on the motif (or you can pass the error off as being artistically gestural or originally interpretive, or regard accuracy as an art school trick, whatever excuse is in vogue), but in a 12-inch figure drawing with fine lines, you just have to get it right, or it
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