I think theres something really great about not only seeing the same people every few weeks, getting to know the organiser (and her dachshund), and participating in ongoing community, but also life drawing in general. It’s stretching a muscle in your eye to brain to hand coordination, its looking for looking. Seeing people who look so many different ways and feel comfortable enough to strip off in front of a group of strangers and have those strangers look so intensely at them for close to two hour. Also getting a glass of cheap wine there doesn’t hurt.