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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Nude or wearing a costume, in front of a classroom and online, a Hamilton life-drawing model poses and inspires professional painters. Every week, Étienne Buxton sets up his camera, lights and ...

A row has broken out after a life-drawing class in north London was told its nude models should wear clothes following complaints. Organisers of the daytime class have accused “puritanical” Hampstead ...