Breakthrough

I always drew caricatures by sketching them in pencil first, working out the basic shapes in the face and then inking the lines I wanted to keep, and erasing the sketchy pencil lines.  I averaged about 10 or 12 caricatures per hour.  But this weekend I was hired to do caricatures for a company picnic.  Just before they were letting people in, I discovered I had forgotten my pencil.  All I had was sharpies.  
But I went for it and drew straight ahead in ink with no sketch.  The drawings came out better and in three hours, I had drawn over a hundred caricatures.  That averaged out to about 33 an hour.  It was like casting aside the training wheels and biking the Tour De France.