As Holly Hanson was working on a gesture drawing of a nude model for her life drawing class, the model, who was standing on his tip-toes, started to shake violently. “We all wondered why he had chosen ...

"I like art galleries, because I get to model amongst other art...that's always kind of cool to be the art among art," Brian ...

My hands are clammy, my left leg is starting to wobble, and I’m standing in the centre of a room full of people – completely butt naked. No, this wasn’t a stereotyped dream (or nightmare). It wasn’t ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brook Castrejón Solis, artists’ model booking agent, explains what it takes to make it as a figure-drawing model. First, please tell me what you do. I am one of a few artists’ model booking agents in ...