“Capture the balance of this pose,” Heddi Siebel says as she walks around the room. “Get the back, get the weight.” Students stand around the model, Callista Womick, in a semicircle, facing easels ...

College sophomore Java Tunson draws on an easel. Models are frequently employed by the Fine Arts Department for human figure drawing classes, and are required to sit silently at the front of ...

The first time Dave Cairns stripped his robe in front of a class full of students he was nervous — and he wasn’t the only one. “The first time was for a group of five or six artists in the basement of ...

New York City in March was, well, quiet. The typically raucous sounds of the city had been reduced to ambulance sirens and a lone car driving up and down the streets blasting “New York, New York” and ...

A lot of people assume that being good at drawing is a natural skill—either you have it or you don’t. But actually, anyone can learn how to draw as long as they’re willing to put in the time to study ...