"Now these are pretty ugly and some of them are actually really bad. But the goal is to warm up..."
Sometimes, however the unintentional stroke ends up being the master stroke. When we disengage from creating masterworks, then muse can speak. Our ugly works play a role in creating the works of beauty.
I view it as getting all of the ugly drawings out of my system before I move on to the good ones.
Exorcising your ugly drawing demons. =)
Precisely! Haha.