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Originally Posted by asdftest

You'd be surprised. It's really a whole lot easier to just tune out and let the creative side of your brain take over if your hormones aren't kicking into overdrive. Besides, grotesque is a lot easier to draw because you can go as crazy as you want and still come up with a decent picture. Beauty is about subtlety and symmetry and those can be difficult traits to capture. Even putting hormones aside really trying to capture the essence of what makes a beautiful woman beautiful can be a frustrating experience.

Let's be honest, the majority of ppl in these classes can't draw a lick to begin with. How do you determine whether someone's drawing is the direct result of being distracted to the point where they're not paying attention to what they're doing compared to how they would draw if the model were gross looking?

Workshops are a totally different game. They're often run by professional artists who are trying to make enough money to pay for their studio space and they hire whoever they want to hire. I know a few artists who actively recruit their models from the local college campuses because the women are young cute and, just as importantly, they usually don't know that the going rate for nude art models around here is $17+ dollars an hour.

But, in my experience, the workshops that exclusively hire attractive young women aren't that common and they tend to cater to the weekend dabblers rather than the serious artists. Drawing cute 20 year olds is a lot of fun but if you really want to know how to draw people then you're going to want a lot more variety in models.

Is that the going rate to strip naked for an hour in front of a bunch of people? How on earth does anyone get people to pose nude for less than $17 an hour for a one hour class? You mean I can get a college chick to get naked for like $10 for a workshop?