How Our Obsession With Thinness Harms Life Drawing
"It's a challenge that's been around since the aerobicized decades of the '80s and '90s.... The goal, teachers say, is for students to learn how to draw different bodies, learn a sense of proportion, and get a perspective on reality. You can't get that from drawing the same kind of body" -- that is, a young, slender body -- "all the time." Philadelphia Inquirer 02/03/10

Posted February 3, 2010 07:38 AM