Too brief to get anything down but a scribble, the roughest mass of a body in space. Then came the longer poses. This is when you started to take in the person—the real person, the real body. Like ...

What is it like to be in a room full of artists who are observing and drawing your naked body? Sitters discuss the freedom and healing they have experienced Craig, 54 (@tattooed_nude) I started life ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mr Lim Kim Hian keeping still for a pose during a life drawing session at the Arterly Obsessed art studio on Jan 21, 2026. (Photo: CNA/Ooi Boon Keong) In my years as a journalist, I have interviewed ...

Kent Van Dusseldorp creates dynamic poses for artists during Zoom sessions on his computer. Through the coronavirus shutdown, he's discovered that can now pose for anyone around the world. Nude ...

Drawing the human figure is not like riding a bicycle. “I was a little rusty,” Southbridge artist Cathleen Moore said, when asked why she recently joined a local life-drawing group. “There’s a warm-up ...

Posing in the nude while being sketched by a bunch of strangers for life drawing classes wasn't extreme for model Andrew Crayford. He decided he needed to "up the ante". Now he's launched Life Drawing ...

A life-drawing class that has been running for over 30 years in north London has been told to cover up its models or find a new venue after child safeguarding concerns were raised. The daytime class ...