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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — “Queering the Body,” a figure drawing class series for queer, gender non-conforming and trans folk, will start April 10 at Northwind Art, the nonprofit art school at Fort Worden State ...

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 ...

"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 ...

For artists, few objects are as challenging to capture as the human form. To render the figure on canvas or paper requires mastery of contouring, shading, perspective, proportion and countless other ...

Count on Japanese software developers to bring us something so delightfully weird yet totally useful. Pose Maniacs is a website that serves as your very own personal figure drawing model, set to ...

Blank canvases fill the intimate space of an art studio, which is focused on a wooden stage in the front of the room. Students are propped up in their seats waiting to begin class. Charles Coffman ...

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 ...

I took off my robe and tossed it on the floor, and all eyes were fixed on me. No, this isn’t some Penthouse fantasy, but the start of a nude drawing class. I’ve had the opportunity to attend them both ...