Has anyone on OCC gone to / done a nude art session?

The idea is quite exciting, though think i might have to do it in another town,- could be awkward if the work boss was there!

Life drawing.
 

I can't speak for the model but it's not sexy.
There's an initial awkwardness if one isn't used to it but generally it's fairly boring as the nudity is during the actual poses and they are fairly static for a quite long time, depending on what the exercise is (ie short sketches/studies or more detailed.)
Disrobing is done behind a screen, as that strangely is the actual awkward part, into a robe which comes off for the poses and sometimes stays off between sometimes, but one gets used to talking to a nude person. It's quite unsexual. And most of one's time is spent drawing (or whatever), women are mostly curves and so tutors tend to encourage sweeping gestures so detail and stucying of parts is usually quite clinuical and things like getting hands right...or ear lobes. And even when one is drawing the interesting parts one is as much interested in 'the negative' spaces' and their relation to the whole.
The models seem to be unusual and exceptional people, though, very interesting with slightly outre life-styles, and despite this threads theme mostly male.

nude model
 

nude model

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nude art models

Yes. I model regularly. Everone in town knows I do. What's the big deal?

It depends on the town. For example, is it a town in Utah? Saudi Arabia?

City is in the USA
 

Art Modeling is an honorable profession, with published standards of conduct both for the model and the artist. there is nothing shameful about it. Friends not involved in art or modelling know that I do it and respect me for it.

I agree, but...
 

My wife used to model when we were younger and she met all the rules, but things still happened. I have written about them on OCC. Didn't you ever feel sexy? turned on?

Yes, it can be a turn on
 

...until one of the artists asks the instructor if the leaking fluid is supposed to be part of the drawing.

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