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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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, ...

It’s Monday night at 7 p.m. and a group of painters meet in a large studio room, setting up their easels and supplies to sketch a nude model. Life Drawing is a University RSO that helps artists bring ...

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 ...