Drawing nude model
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- pango0
done it.
and hate it when its an old guy as model...
- honest0
I had two years of this before university, in the UK it's mandatory to have good drawing skills for a creative degree. Dunno if it's the same now as it was when I was in college but suffice to say it was an 'interesting' day on Wednesdays...
- ********0
i had it untill few weeks ago, but it was more like
here is the lady, draw her.not really lessons.. so, i didn't learn alot
- 23kon0
I went to life drawing classes at the art college when i was at high school.
Was advised to go to beef up my portfolio more.
Then when i was doing my HND i went again to night classes to beef up my folio. Thats the only reason I went.
Ive never really used what I have learned since then.
Then when i got to art college I was sick of life drawing lol.Its quite funny cos its the same models theyd had for years, an old skinny guy and a bit fat woman. whenever you went to friends houses that had went through first year at art college they all had canvases around with the same old guy in them. probably the most famous old dude in the city haha.
- SimonFFM0
I had to attend 8 semesters of nude drawing classes. Unfortunately the teacher always picked fat and hairy female models. We we had to draw nude male models the teacher picked nicely shaped males with muscles. So for the ladies it was always a pleasure.
- ********0
At the school I went to at the time, there was this old guy that looked like Santa Claus - this old fat dude with a super big beard. I had seen him around so many times and hed just stroll the school hallways wearing his robe & you knew that one day you'd be drawing santa naked... but that day never came, i only had female models.
It surprising how detached and non-weird it is when you just want to draw a picture and not have it look like shit.
- fodcj0
Did classes every week at school (A Level) for 2 years. Was all very childish and immature to start with as everyone was sniggering behind there work but after a couple of sessions we all got use to it. Not sure I was ever that great but was fun and defiantly good to hone those skills. Haven't done it since though.
- stem0
Haven't done it since college (many moons ago). Models were usually middle aged with no inhibitions.
On a serious note, anyone on here who hasn't tried it should give it a go. Observational drawing is challenging but can be rewarding.
Also, it can help you in you day to day work.
- thumb_screws0
Yeah definitely give it a go, you start of rubbish but if you stick it out, the difference from where you start to where you end up is ace to look back on. Especially with the 1 min pose work.
Best model we had was a curvy girl who was in early pregnancy at the start of the year but kept coming back to pose. So got to draw her until she popped the bub's.
Also used to get this dude who was tramp, he smelt like cheese and sweaty balls, classes where always on Friday morning so you would roll in still drunk from the night before to be confronted by a stinky man in a confined space.
- fooler20
I skipped out the day we were suppose to had a male model. My teacher threatened to flunk anyone that did. I think I ended up losing an entire grade but there was no way I was mature enough to handle that then. I'm not even sure I could handle it now, 10+ years later.
- hahabenfal99
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It was awfully uncomfortable and half my class coincidentally had something to do that dayVectorMasked
- ********0
I did that at college in my first year, It was funny, all the people in the class where not told what was going on, next thing I Know this women walks out in a robe, drop it on the ground, and she is all naked. WTF.
After the first 5-min of getting your head around someone being naked you just start concentration on drawing, it was great experience to study the human body on a creative and technical level, you are completely taken away from the sexual content of the body and left with how bloody hard it is to draw the human body. A must for any artist I say. Something I will always remember.
- Raniator0
what is considered an acceptable amount of time to concentrate on a female flange? and after how long is it considered rude to stare?
- Glitterati_Duane0
I did it and enjoyed it. Drawing dudes wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
- benfal990
we're doing 10 minutes poses. After 10min the model start shaking... too hard for them
- mistermik0
My old art teacher had the best breasts known to man kind.
Without a doubt she was first in the queue.
- janne760
i am still traumatised..
- zippy0
figure drawing is essential to anyone who translates visual ideas through their hands. The product is by far the least important aspect. like exercising the body, figure drawing is an exercise routine for your mind. It works out your creativity as well as hand-eye coordination... and can really get the juices flowing. I recommend going at least once a week. (spring street studio, nyc - best models, and no they're not hot)
- ********0
Figure drawing is the shit. I'm tight at it.
- bulletfactory0
i took figure drawing and life drawing (which was second semester figure drawing). extremely beneficial to my understanding of proportions and illustration (which are way out of practice). class was very professional in the beginning - any rude/questionable comments, giggling, etc would not be tolerated and you'd be ejected from class. though as we all got comfortable through the year, we would all joke around with her etc.