Too brief to get anything down but a scribble, the roughest mass of a body in space. Then came the longer poses. This is when you started to take in the person—the real person, the real body. Like ...

A woman stands at the centre of the room, nude, encircled by a dozen art students. Some sit on benches with paint-splattered sketchboards balanced on their knees. Others stand behind easels. “Two ...

Posing in the nude while being sketched by a bunch of strangers for life drawing classes wasn't extreme for model Andrew Crayford. He decided he needed to "up the ante". Now he's launched Life Drawing ...

Mr Lim Kim Hian keeping still for a pose during a life drawing session at the Arterly Obsessed art studio on Jan 21, 2026. (Photo: CNA/Ooi Boon Keong) In my years as a journalist, I have interviewed ...

"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 ...

Draw along with BBC Four's Life Drawing Live! as Pose Cam remains on the models throughout each session. Watch expert advice and take part in the largest-ever life drawing class.

Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...