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 ...

"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 ...

The Best Resources for Drawing Poses is a curated guide for artists seeking to improve their figure drawing and dynamic posing skills. Covering everything from pose reference websites and anatomy ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first time Dave Cairns stripped his robe in front of a class full of students he was nervous — and he wasn’t the only one. “The first time was for a group of five or six artists in the basement of ...