I did life drawing today! I still tend to go for a realistic style, but often end up exaggerating parts anyway. For example, her legs in this drawing are really long on purpose. Why? Hmm, I just felt like it wanted to be. Yeah, I do love gesture drawing.
I also love going to unguided life drawing sessions because everyone has their own way and goals in drawing a subject. Creating a goal of a drawing is sort of an exercise in itself. There are drawings striving for realism, drawings focusing on a particular style, drawings experimenting with a specific technique… Lots of abstract drawings too. Lately, I’ve found myself caricaturing the subject too. Somehow, a little part of me feels blasphemous making cartoony drawings, but I also love that you can kind of do whatever you want at these life drawing sessions.