Continuing the people theme. I went to the mall again today to draw another 20 completely innocent people. And again it was great fun!
I think this might be the right (and fun) thing to do to push myself to get better. It’s not exactly practicing realism. With people not standing still but walking around this is not life drawing like if I went to a croquis event. This is more like a mixture of that and my own cartoonish style that I have to use when I need to “fill in the gaps” when the person has long left and the drawing is only half way done. As I get better at anatomy and proportions the filling in gaps part will get better and better.
Today I was more loose and less concerned with realism and more with capturing what I had seen – colors, clothes and accessories and more importantly: Gesture and personality. In some of the drawings I think I somewhat succeeded in that while others developed far from the original person.
That is not necessarily bad though as long as the result still looks somewhat believable and still captured a moment I wanted to express. I have worked with strict realism and gesture drawings for so long that this experiment is really fun and so very different to do. 
