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 ...

A life drawing class at the Boston Figurative Art Center (photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Aaron Bogan, a professional art model and illustrator originally from New ...

Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...

Alida Pepper was staring down depression. Stuck in her apartment in San Francisco, she worried that all the plans she’d made were about to unravel. For months, Pepper, a full-time life drawing model, ...

Will Cotton’s annual life drawing party, held on September 12, 2017. New York Academy of Art The event offers artists the chance to get back to basics by sketching nude figure models together—just ...

Models have hit out at the “societal stigma about nudity” after a life drawing class which has been running for 30 years was asked to either cover its nude muses up or find a new venue due to ...

Her body is a work of art. Smooth, fair skin. Thick upper thighs that taper to thin lower calves. A pooch below the waist - her "Botticelli belly." Jennie Moore, a 24-year-old student at the ...