There was a wooden platform only a few inches off the ground. That was enough to divide us into the ones looking, the one being looked at. There was a lack of ceremony when the model stepped onto the ...

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 ...

Freehand sketching is practically in my DNA, yet I had never felt so amateur when I began illustrating Leisha Stanek — my first time drawing a live model. By cash or check, 12 artists were allowed ...

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 ...

Artist Isaac McCaslin was selected as Arts Southeast’s 2025 Incubator Artist. McCaslin started Savannah Open Model Sessions to make live-model drawing more accessible for local artists. An upcoming ...

For the little cluster of Harvardmen (22 this term) banded together in the Harvard Art Association, the drawing possibilities were all pretty dreary: mostly just cubes and cones, bowls of fruit and ...