Well it's good to know that if I ever get a tablet I'll not be alone in the fact that it takes getting used to.
Projection paper is a nice idea, however being very obsessive over symmetry, I'm constantly all over the page. I really should do a few doodles here and there more often. With as much free time as I have now it would likely be worth it.

On a side inquirery, is redrawing someone else's work an OK thing as long as I don't claim to be the original artist? It's one of the things I love doing to practice non static face forward neutral posing.