There was a wooden platform only a few inches off the ground. That was enough to divide us into the ones looking, the one being looked at. There was a lack of ceremony when the model stepped onto the ...

Pencils and paintbrushes rise when Kelly removes her robe and perches on a wooden platform one recent Sunday morning. Each artist in the small group at the Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach ...

It's six o'clock on a Friday night, and Hannah Lindsey, a sophomore in Columbia College, is lying nude on a pile of cushions. Pencils scratch paper and charcoal smudges on sketchbooks as the Columbia ...

A few minutes before today's advanced figure drawing class begins, students slowly file into a classroom at Ringling College of Art and Design. Like chefs preparing their stations, the students go ...

"If we all saw each other naked in more casual settings, it wouldn’t be such a big deal anyway," says one retiree, who’s been drawing at the Boston Figurative Art Center for a decade. Model Collin ...

Count on Japanese software developers to bring us something so delightfully weird yet totally useful. Pose Maniacs is a website that serves as your very own personal figure drawing model, set to ...

Visitors to a recent art show at Dixie State University were greeted with a disclaimer. “Parents may choose to preview this exhibit before their children enter. Thank you.” Obviously a message like ...

BELFAST, Maine (WABI) - From prehistoric Venus figurines to Michelangelo’s David, artists have tried to capture the natural beauty of the human form for thousands of years. In Belfast, a weekly class ...

Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Sandridge had never seen a nude male body before. And having someone walk into one of her art classes, disrobe and stand naked before some 20 students wasn't quite the way ...

The thought of stepping in front of a roomful of artists as a figure drawing model for the first time was nerve-wracking for Michelle Long. She recalls nervously rehearsing for her modeling debut in ...

The first time Dave Cairns stripped his robe in front of a class full of students he was nervous — and he wasn’t the only one. “The first time was for a group of five or six artists in the basement of ...