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.”