Yeah. Good practice for freehand control.
Recommendation: Stay relaxed and make long sweeping curves for the bigger stuff. This is where the [UNDO] command comes in handy. Just keep sweeping your mark until you nail it to your satisfaction.
Little choppy lines are safer and you can course correct as you go, and you'll eventually get there, but it will have a different character that way. When I was starting out in junior college where I had my first art classes where they actually gave guidance, that was one of the first things they pointed out. And I was a careful small stroke kind of guy at the time. So it took me out of my comfort zone and opened up a whole new way of drawing.
When I was doing the small careful lines it was a lot tighter and I was working smaller, but I was more dependent upon following exactly what I was looking at -- no room for interpretation. Plus when I was on the clock, I had to work out of my head a lot without models and I had to really crank out the drawings. So both ways are fine. All a matter of what works best for you. But you can often get smoother lines with your longer strokes if you're working bigger.
But you're looking good, Meister Ploos.
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream
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