Less than cute

Sometimes I think my motives for drawing not-so-cute girls is sort of selfish. I used to think to myself "I draw weird looking girls because I have a special gift for seeing unique and lovely features in less than perfect looking people" and that I had to "show people who had less refined tastes how to appreciate these lovely features." That's crap though...the truth is, most people like drawings of very pretty girls because that's what people like in real life- pretty girls! They're not the unrefined ones- it's me!
I have a few reasons for prefering to draw funnier looking girls. First of all, I'm not attracted to girls, so I'm not going to be drawn to the prettiest looking ones to use as subjects. I'll admit that when I first started drawing, I prefered to draw girls that WERE examples of perfect conventional cuteness, probably because I was in awe of them. I still like drawing super cute girls sometimes, but after drawing them so often, it just sort of became boring. I can understand why someone who is attracted to swimsuit models and other pretties would want to use them as inspiration, but right now variety is more appealing to me than beauty.
The second reason is because "real" girls are so much more interesting to look at to me. By "real" girls I don't mean the types of girls who watch the Oxygen channel and say "You go girl!" all the time...I mean the giggly goony girls you see at the mall and walking down the street and attending book clubs and whatever else. Real people are interesting...they have weird facial ticks, mismatched eyes, crooked smiles...they shift from foot to foot impatiently, the trip and fall over, etc. It's so natural to just draw a girl standing and posing for you, the viewer, in all her long-legged glory. And it's not a bad thing to draw a girl posing, but I want to learn to capture girls and people in their natural awkward state. It just seems cuter to me.

None of these drawings are good examples of capturing girls "in the moment," as I've just rambled on about. I still have to learn a lot of things before that will come easily to me. It's still hard enough just separating myself from my default girl proportions: large cranium, big far apart eyes, full cheeks, teeny nose, small chin, long neck, slender body, long legs. But these drawings are some of my attempts to depart from the norm as I work towards another weird goal.
P.S. Another reason for liking funny looking girls- I am a firm believer than many things can be so ugly they're cute, like pugs and those weird hairless cats. These girls might be just plain ugly, but I like them anyhow (you might be able to find some of them in the street fashion book "Fruits")!