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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

It's a quiet Monday evening at a pub in Sydney's inner-west and there is about to be some nudity — but it's all in the name of art. This will be only the second time Lulu has attended the life drawing ...

Several dozen local artists had the rare chance to draw a nude model recently at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Open Figure Drawing of Syracuse holds two such events every year. Model Marina ...

Even when artists are working with the same subject, the results can be dramatically different, reflecting their personal style, choice of medium, and other artistic decisions. This fundamental truth ...