It was my second year in my Undergrad and I had a teacher who had a friend that worked for a kinda hip fashion magazine. This friend of his was doing an article on people who's employment required them to be in the nude. So my drawing teacher told his friend that we always have a nude model working for our class and if he wanted to do a photo shoot during our drawing class that would be fine. Now the thing is my particular class enjoyed models who had a bit of character. There was Pauly, he was a middle aged man who was a bit over weight and kind hairy, we asked for him all the time. Then their was Clarissa. She was a 30 year old black woman with really short hair and tattoos. She was really quite curvaceous, with a big bum and big tits. Then their was Tom, he was kinda your average looking guy, a bit short and a bit spotty and you can tell from the way he dressed coming in he used to a bit of a punk in his youth. Anyway you get the picture. So for the photo shoot a model came into the class that we have never seen before. She was very tall, very slim, she had perfect skin and rather perfect looking features. We all realized that they basically hired a fashion model to act as our nude model for that day. And it was a bit of a disappointment. I had to exagerate her features a bit because her "figure" was straight up and down. There wasn't much there to draw. Her physical features weren't that unique in any way. She was just a really pretty girl. And it made me realize that this article was going to be really inacurate and rather idealized.
Saturday, 24 May 2008
Ani Baronian, Glasgow UK
It was my second year in my Undergrad and I had a teacher who had a friend that worked for a kinda hip fashion magazine. This friend of his was doing an article on people who's employment required them to be in the nude. So my drawing teacher told his friend that we always have a nude model working for our class and if he wanted to do a photo shoot during our drawing class that would be fine. Now the thing is my particular class enjoyed models who had a bit of character. There was Pauly, he was a middle aged man who was a bit over weight and kind hairy, we asked for him all the time. Then their was Clarissa. She was a 30 year old black woman with really short hair and tattoos. She was really quite curvaceous, with a big bum and big tits. Then their was Tom, he was kinda your average looking guy, a bit short and a bit spotty and you can tell from the way he dressed coming in he used to a bit of a punk in his youth. Anyway you get the picture. So for the photo shoot a model came into the class that we have never seen before. She was very tall, very slim, she had perfect skin and rather perfect looking features. We all realized that they basically hired a fashion model to act as our nude model for that day. And it was a bit of a disappointment. I had to exagerate her features a bit because her "figure" was straight up and down. There wasn't much there to draw. Her physical features weren't that unique in any way. She was just a really pretty girl. And it made me realize that this article was going to be really inacurate and rather idealized.
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It is also my experience that the most perfect examples of human physique often prove to be the most disappointing to draw. It gives me much pleasure to celebrate the fuller figure and I too always ask for a less idealised figure at Life classes.
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