"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 ...

Pencils and paintbrushes rise when Kelly removes her robe and perches on a wooden platform one recent Sunday morning. Each artist in the small group at the Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach ...

A life drawing class at the Boston Figurative Art Center (photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Aaron Bogan, a professional art model and illustrator originally from New ...

Alida Pepper was staring down depression. Stuck in her apartment in San Francisco, she worried that all the plans she’d made were about to unravel. For months, Pepper, a full-time life drawing model, ...

Artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci have drawn inspiration from the human body for centuries. Mike Radford, the life drawing class leader at Arts & Design Society, said life drawing is a challenge.