BELFAST, Maine (WABI) - From prehistoric Venus figurines to Michelangelo’s David, artists have tried to capture the natural beauty of the human form for thousands of years. In Belfast, a weekly class ...

A few minutes before today's advanced figure drawing class begins, students slowly file into a classroom at Ringling College of Art and Design. Like chefs preparing their stations, the students go ...

Arts & Culture Reporter Grace Phillips tests her creative side with Huzzah Books' biweekly figure drawing event.

Russo, 78, loved drawing as a kid and considered a career in art before landing a position climbing down New York City manholes as a lineman for Ma Bell. When Dottie, his wife of 37 years, died of ...

"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 ...

What is it like to follow in the footsteps of a long-serving faculty member? How does your own undergraduate experience inform your teaching? So many things to ponder as you start your career. This is ...

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 ...

Figure drawing isn’t just about getting proportions right—it’s about breathing life into your art. From studying anatomy to observing real life, artists blend technical skill with personal vision.

Watch how students of Drawing Fundamentals II, an intermediate skills art class offered on Fridays, spend a typical six-hour ...