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    Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now

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    Image of elitza owns the last Enzo shirt elitza owns the last Enzo shirt
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I sort of want to do this now. I think it'd be great for my self-image, to be honest.
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    Image of funnyface funnyface
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I'll tell you where to sign up! Call me, or people like me: administrative assistants to studio art departments at local colleges. We always need more people to sign up, and it's $20 per hour! Creepers need not apply-- one guy exposed his massive erection to one of our adjuncts, and he will NOT be modeling for us ever again.
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    Image of LittleMissBossyBoots LittleMissBossyBoots
    02/04/09

    @funnyface: I know this might sound like a silly question, but how do we go about asking? "Do you need any live models?" I feel like I'm asking that I want to be naked in front of people or something...
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    Image of funnyface funnyface
    02/04/09

    @LittleMissBossyBoots: Just call up the main office of studio art, and tell them you heard they might be hiring models for figure classes. Odds are, they're advertising all over campus (at least that's what we do), and will just assume you saw the ad. For us, people have to come in and fill out an availability form, and if they aren't students, they also have to fill out paper work as temp hires, so that measn we need copies of a photo id and social security card. Then, it's just a matter of getting model requests from faculty members and matching them up with who said they were available.
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I get panic attacks when I am forced to sit still without moving, so I don't think I could get into this.
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I took a figure drawing class with some dumb jock and blonde bimbo types and they would always complaining before class about how "disgusting" the models were because they had some belly fat. Ugh.
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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    Oh man, I remember life drawing, we were all so pumped to get a fat model. She was so much better than the stick-thin dreadlocked Unitarian girl we always got.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    But can you fit the nude modelling classes in round your new domme commitments that you signed up to earlier?
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    Image of returnofthemac returnofthemac
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    K, my ex-boyfriend was really cut in a natural "physical labor" type of way. My art professor saw him and asked him to model for the class and suprisingly he did. It was really cool seeing everyones work. I still have an awsome painting I did of his back. So overall great experience.
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    02/03/09

    @returnofthemac: Sorry I kinda rambled that just brought back some amazing memories *winkwink*
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I would get SO bored.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    Nude modeling is fine: kinda boring. It's been uber-romanticized.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    02/03/09

    @LaComtesse: If you want an awesome, easy gig with great money, tutor the SATs. The company will train you how to do it and you can make upwards of $35 an hour.
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    02/03/09

    @LaComtesse: oh! my friend did that with the MCATS. it pays CRAZY good.
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    Image of Uncommon Whore Uncommon Whore
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I used to model for a life drawing class!


    It was in the back of an art supply store called Montmartre and a very eccentric older artist woman taught it. It was very good for my self image at the time - I think I was 23 or 24.

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    Image of Uncommon Whore Uncommon Whore
    02/03/09

    @Uncommon Whore: And I got $20 an hour, and would bring props like grapefruits and silky scarves. Oh yes, those were the days.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I have a class tonight! Yay!
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    Image of StupidFace StupidFace
    02/03/09

    @NerD!!!: Gotta ask--are you the model or the artist?
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    02/03/09

    @StupidFace: Artist.


    Also, for those of you who are thinking of doing this. Artists on the whole are very respectful, because we are grateful for what you are doing.


    I couldn't do it. I have body shame like you wouldn't believe.

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    Image of lindsaylouhan lindsaylouhan
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    OK, I SO want to be a nude art model. For serious. Although, from what I've heard of it before (was it here? There was a piece in the Chicago Trib recently, but I'm not sure how I navigated there) $12/hr actually seems a tad paltry...it's difficult to pose stock still for such extended periods of time as is required for some of those gigs.
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    Image of funnyface funnyface
    02/03/09

    @lindsaylouhan: Contact the admin in your local college's studio art departments. I work as an admin in studio art, and I hire models. We pay $20 per hour at my liberal arts college.
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    Image of EsmereldaFitzmonster EsmereldaFitzmonster
    02/03/09

    @lindsaylouhan: My friend models at our university and makes $22/hr.
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I so wish I felt good enough about my body to do something like this. Maybe

    someday.
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    Image of restless restless
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    True true. This is hard for people who are not artists to understand. Americans are so used to seeing nudity sexualized that it is hard for them to comprehend how a group of people can look at nudity with merely observing eyes. The only group of people more used to nudity than artists are probably doctors, but even then bodies are parts covered mostly by sheets.


    In classes I was concentrating so hard on so many things, you completely forget time and space let alone a naked subject, the least if which is: composition, color, anatomy, shape, light, accurate rendering, proportion, etc etc.


    All I can say is, take a life drawing class and you'll get it. Words don't make sense of a complex visual construct like this.

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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    02/04/09

    @restless: So true.


    I've done a fair amount of drawing/painting/sculpting using nude models. In a lot of ways, it really helps you appreciate the architecture of flesh and bone, and the fragility of the moments that we occupy.


    The human body is the toughest thing to render, too - because we all know, or think we know - what they look like.

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    Image of thingtwo thingtwo
    02/03/09

    In reply to Drawing Life: Nude Modeling Sounds Pretty Damn Good Right About Now
    I actually did a fair amount of modeling for community art classes; it paid well, and the people really are very nice. The problems are not the being cold (God bless space heaters!), or being embarrassed (you get over it very quickly), but sitting still--completely still--for 25 minutes at a time. Positions that start out so comfy it's criminal soon start to pinch or rub or cut off blood flow, and that's a real bitch. Even laying down gets uncomfortable after the first ten minutes if your neck is turned the wrong way. After a while you figure out which poses are reasonable for a length of time, but those first few sessions hurt like hell.

    (Just for fun, try to sit totally still for two minutes--it's harder than I ever thought it would be.)
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    Image of Uncommon Whore Uncommon Whore
    02/03/09

    @thingtwo: yeah, or that pose with your arm out that seems ok at first, and ten minutes later is absolutely excruciating?
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