I've been experimenting with the new drawing knowledge I gained from the animation class by drawing more spontaneous and gesturely. I also built a habit of building the drawing and taking my time with the process. It gives the drawing a chance to reveal itself as oppose to putting down conclusive marks.
The first drawing of a kid was done doing another exercise which is using a finished drawing (which was a gesture) and applying it to a character. I managed to do a few but this was the best in the bunch as I spent quite some time working the "insides" before a put down the indelible linework, which I also tried to keep at a minimum. My brain began churning in a different directions reconfiguring the accumulated gesture drawings over the years and had lots of fun doing it...
yay!