[Closed] Life class modelling

Who's lou? Does she have any pictures?

Showing off? Nah, I'm way too shy for that.

*immediately marks thread as a favourite...*

I would. Never had a problem with being naked.
They would have to be looking for a Rubenesque model though 😳

The money isn't for getting your kit off, it's for not moving for a couple of hours.

I'd love to have the confidence and body to do it.... but until that point I'm going to say that I wouldn't be able to 'cos of my bad back.

Semantics idave. Still have to sit in the all togetherin front of a bunch of art students. Graham more interesting than a skinny bint with too many grazes and no tits. 😉

A mate at uni was a gifted artist (despite being a physicist). Went over to his place once and found an almost life-size painting of my naked girlfriend hanging on a wall. I thought he'd done a great job. As a student, he preferred the more interesting bodies (wrinklier, fatter) to paint.

I'm going to revise my initial response having just looked at some pictures of Michelangelo's David.

Ripped body - check.
Daft hairstyle - check.
Rediculously small weiner - check.

All I need to do is an all over shave and someone might be able to immortalise me in a masterpiece.

oh son, how we differ!

Ripped body - nope
Daft hairstyle - not any more
Rediculously small weiner - nope

all i need to do is an allbodyplasticsurgeryday and someone might be able to immortalise me in a masterpiece.

No problem about being naked (for someone wanting to paint an overweight middle aged bloke), but sitting still is beyond me - people behind me in the cinema curse the day I was born.

I should add that she didn't have a problem life modelling and made a few quid. I believe the trick is to chose a pose you can hold for a couple of hours. 'Fast asleep' doesn't quite cut it.

Ripped body - check.
Daft hairstyle - does balding count?
Rediculously small weiner - check.

Where do I sign up?

Thursday evening. (gulp)

I did it for a while when I was a student (quite a time ago now!), as several of my friends were studing fine art. To be honest it's not the easiest way to earn a bit of money, not becuase of anything to do with being naked (you tend to forget about that after the first time), but because it's very boring - everyone else is concentrating on their work and you have to just sit there with nothing to do. You do on the whole stay still, but nobody minds if you need to occassional stretch as long as you return to the same position.

occasional stretch

I'd have to do naked star jumps 🙂

dd, I believe burpies would be better.

Not all models have to sit still for a few hours.
There are the traditional classes where you might have to be semi naked in a toga or laying dramatically on a sofa.
Other prefer 5 or 10 minute poses. I used to do one where the model was on a very slow but constant movement, they did tend to be dance students though so would use it as a bit of training.
There is the pervy aspect of it but most people just get used to nudity. I suppose a bit like a mortician does seeing dead people, though I suspect relationships with ones muse might be a bit different there.

Give them a call and see what type of classes they run, they could be clothed.

dd, I beleive burpies would be better.

😆

I was going to say that, but thought it might be a stretch too far. 😀

Deadly just snorted tea out of my nose!

I think as long as you warn the class which way you'll do the squat-thrust part you should be ok.

Sounds like there are some 'studies in motion' classes crying out for your modelling talents.

So to conclude. Corroded was a chubby chaser at Uni.

Good lord, I knew one model "Jungle Jim" who would sometimes do the "bridge position". He shaved all of his body hair too.

I'd forgotten about that untill now!!!!!!!THANKS 😯

I think as long as you warn the class which way you'll do the squat-thrust part you should be ok.

As long as there's no inappropriate wood, side on should be fine.

Done it before when I was at art college, got £25 p/h when my part time job was paying £3.80, being a student myself at the time I knew how important it was to stay still. Trust me not moving for 45 minute sessions is harder than it looks (puns about harder welcome)

45 mins sitting still without thinking about something that would cause wood could be a challenge

Yeah, especially with loads of young art students around.

'45 mins sitting still without thinking about something that would cause wood could be a challenge'

I found the problem to be maintaining 'wood' for 45 minutes without moving

Would a lazy lob on be classed as 'movement'?

I think it would count as an inappropriate stretch

I used to be at art college and we had a few of these models. One was quite hot, but the novelty is shortlived as you are only drawing from a distance.

but the novelty is shortlived as you are only drawing from a distance

I was only offered £20! ( huffs)

Girlfriend went to art college, I walked into their studio to say hello and my reaction was 'oh hello there' to a middle-aged woman sat starkers on a chair. Everyone laughed except the Lecturer, her and my missus 😆

did it once was boring if good money

I've modelled nude a few times (I is well buff, innit), but only for photographs in a studio or room, and only for one person each time...

I've always insisted on having the final say on poses/which images can be used, and insisted on negatives I've not been happy with being destroyed. I don't want my cobbly-bobblers all over tinternet for all the world to [s]laugh at[/s] admire.

Tasteful, not filth.

I don't think I could sit in a room full of strangers, stark bollock naked, and sit still for an hour.

Actually I don't think I could sit still for an hour anyway. 🙂

Emsz; £20?? They're taking the piss. Should be at least £30 these days. What a liberty.

£20 emz! That's not much these days for the job. Last model I booked was for a a group of 3 students I was private tutoring he was £50 for an hour but had experience (you can add more puns if you want) I think now you would ask for at least £35 plus travel costs, more for London.

found an almost life-size painting of my naked girlfriend hanging on a wall... he preferred the more interesting bodies (wrinklier, fatter) to paint.

😯

Had your girlfriend posed for him or was it painted from his imagination?

I worked as a life model years ago in Aberdeen, good money for old rope, the first few days were the most embarrasing. The staying in the same pose is the hardest part of the job. The worst I had was having to stand all day with my hands behind my head, not bad for the first 45 min, they had to move my arms down at the end of the day. You can deal with the stationary aspect in different ways I meditated, I've known others who compose music or write.
To keep the wood down I thought of standing naked in wet y-fronts in front of a naked maggie thatcher.

good money for old [b]rope[/b]

😆

Sorry...

[i]standing naked in wet y-fronts in front of a naked maggie thatcher[/i]

Ah, oh dear.

Hang on, I'll just clean up.

I used to do it, in basement studio. You never got to see the artists, all you heard was the clunk as they put the money in the slot to be able to continue painting. Other times you would hear furious painting as they tried to finish the piece before the shutter closed. You could tell when the managed this, they would give a yelp of success and then they wouldn't need to put any more money in the slot.

Thanks Charlie I never realised that vinegar strokes referred to the final strokes of paint applied to a picture.

my bother did it, loved it. he is ripped and hung like a donkey tho. he was young and had loads of flings off the back of it. bast**d.

Well
That was all very genteel. We even had a tea break half way through. Got given a big fluffy robe ( v clean!!) to change into and did two poses. I've got a crick in my neck now from looking over my left shoulder. I got to see some of the drawings. One was just of my torso with no head! ( weird) got £20 and a receipt!

you have to just sit there with nothing to do

Can't you take a portable TV to watch?

that is a sad indictment when elsewhere on this thread people have spoken of meditation.. and composing music or works of writing..

jeremy kyle anyone?

I've been doing this about once a month for the last three years. It's trying to think of different things to do while sitting starkers encircled by 15 strangers. The fun is in trying to work out which bit of you will seize first, or playing stare at that spot, poetry or trigonometry but it is £15 an hour too; so not bad.
My boner killer is John Prescott walking up the drive with a bottle of wine and flowers knocks on the and Maggie opens the door in a negligée. You are welcome.

£15ph seriously you can get much more than that, especially as you've done it before. I private tutour in art currently it's about £30 for someone with no experience, the models that advertise in art magazines charge more, they must get some work as they advertise each week. Cheers for the mental image anyway

Austerity measures.

CharlieMungus - Member
I used to do it, in basement studio. You never got to see the artists, all you heard was the clunk as they put the money in the slot to be able to continue painting. Other times you would hear furious [b]panting[/b] as they tried to finish the[b]mselves off[/b] before the shutter closed. You could tell when they managed this, they would give a yelp of success and then they wouldn't need to put any more money in the slot.

Fixed that for you 🙂

I can't believe nobody else has said it yet, but...

This thread is useless without pictures!!

Good luck if you want to be a life model, difficult to stay still for 30-60mins.

The only advice I can give is DO NOT EAT ANYTHING while you are a life model! This one model at art college used to eat when she was supposed to be standing/sitting still...think large-ish tattooed naked woman loudly gnawing away on breadsticks for two hours solid, thoroughly offputting when you are trying to draw. The other model we used to draw was terribly skinny so we actually wouldnt have minded if she'd eaten something beacause frankly she looked like she needed the carbs, on the plus side she used to walk around the art class during her break (no robe) and would always look over your shoulder at your work, v. distracting for an 18yr old art student causing much shakey linework. Ah, happy days 🙂

As for the male model, our group never had the opportunity to draw him but we had it on good advice from the other class that he tended get a bit, ahem, excited... 😯

I've done countless hours of life drawing. There's nothing pervy or sexual about it. You get paid for sitting still, naked. It's totally objective, you're looking at the angles and negative space in someones armpit! or the light bouncing off their nose. They just turn into shapes and angles and spaces and measurements. But you have to stay still. proper still, it's not easy. sometimes you have to hold stuff or flex muscles, for ages.

Have you posed naked Kevevs? 😯

In the name of Medical Science...

err no. I didn't say that! I've had my brain scanned for medical science and they found a lost squirrel and a piece of marzipan.