Blank canvases fill the intimate space of an art studio, which is focused on a wooden stage in the front of the room. Students are propped up in their seats waiting to begin class. Charles Coffman ...

The thought of stepping in front of a roomful of artists as a figure drawing model for the first time was nerve-wracking for Michelle Long. She recalls nervously rehearsing for her modeling debut in ...

The first time Elliott Vargas posed nude for artists, it wasn't at the Detroit Queer Sketch Series. The 27-year-old had already tried their hand at modeling at Detroit's venerable Scarab Club, coaxed ...

Kent Van Dusseldorp creates dynamic poses for artists during Zoom sessions on his computer. Through the coronavirus shutdown, he's discovered that can now pose for anyone around the world. Nude ...

Naomi Watts, Christina Di Donna and former Victoria’s Secret model Kristy Hinze-Clark hosted a benefit for the New York Academy of Art, where guests showed off their own artistic skills. Taking to ...

“The model has a very complex form, rich in color, and the artist is looking at the model and learning how to collect this information and turn that into an art form. The simplest and easiest way to ...

Last month, several women came forward with complaints that artist Chuck Close sexually harassed them while they were modeling in his studio. The allegations, published in the Huffington Post and ...

Note: This video has male nudity. You might not think to look twice at Bob Webb on the street, but for nearly 50 years artists have been paying to look at him — naked. Webb began modeling in his home ...

From catalog to couture, the right male model poses can mean the difference between selling a fantasy or missing the mark. But not everyone has Blue Steel as a fallback, so if you’re an aspiring Tyson ...