When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Patrick J Jones Figure drawing is a fundamental skill for artists, but one of the hardest ...

At the beginning of the 20-minute pose, the model, a student like almost everyone else in the room, took out her readings. She spread the packet between her feet and crouched, resting her chin on her ...

"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 ...

In the Before Times, I had occasionally gone to life-drawing classes: part social activity, part attempt to improve drawing skills. I would say I sort of enjoyed them; I liked the atmosphere, the ...

Several dozen local artists had the rare chance to draw a nude model recently at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Open Figure Drawing of Syracuse holds two such events every year. Model Marina ...

ALL THROUGH MY childhood, drawing was my thing. Then I started writing for a living, and the drawing just … stopped, as if my brain said, “I can do one creative thing, and that’s it.” I’d considered ...