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Posted: 4/27/2007 12:01:58 PM | | I have taken several drawing classes, including a figure drawing class that used live nudes every session, and they have to stay completely still for long periods of time. Staying completely still for any length of time is a real chore for me, but if I could get passed that - then sure. As long as it was handled professionally. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2007 3:36:36 PM | i posed nude while a dirt-poor undergrad. i met a lot of cool people and learned a great deal about drawing. i also made pretty good money.
standing immobile for 20-30 mintues at a time isn't easy. i actually passed out once.
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Posted: 4/29/2007 5:58:15 PM | I posed cos the money was right , and i needed it at the time. My dads a sculptor , and i'm a portrait artist , but mainly a musician , so i understand the concept , and im aware there is nothing sexual about it as i was just an object , and no different to a rock or a cowskull at the time. It was an experience , but i doubt i'd tell my grandchildren , cos...um...i dont have any. | |
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Posted: 4/30/2007 2:01:17 PM | Being an artist myself ... I would have to say yes... simply because i know the great benefit to the learning artist.. I would have to say Id probably be nervous at first but I have talked to many of the models I have drawn and it has always been put to me as great experience .  | |
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Posted: 6/16/2007 10:36:35 AM | As an artist I have had people pose for me and posed for other artists. I guess whenever I started to really take art seriously, any of the reservations I had about seeing someone I hardly new or a close friend naked had to thrown out the window. It's strange, after awhile, if you don't already have an sexually emotional connection with the model, it's just shapes and forms. I noticed this a few years back when I was taken to a strip club, I just wanted to sketch the dancers, suffice to say the napkins aren't great to draw on.
I guess my only advice is if you are considering posing for someone, spend a few minutes with them before hand or have a friend present if possible, because unfortunatly there are a few creeps out there posing as artists. | |
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Posted: 6/16/2007 5:30:23 PM | | I haven't done it.....but I would....if I could find someone blind enough!! | |
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Posted: 6/17/2007 4:03:05 AM | | in a college art class I took, had the art teacher's wife pose nude for our class to draw. I found that kinda weird lol well at least it wasn't him though. | |
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Posted: 6/17/2007 4:10:01 PM | | I don't have any negative issues about nudity, be it my own or someone else's. I was a nude model in my early 20s, posing for art classes at several area universities, and I'd do so now. | |
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Posted: 6/26/2007 6:41:52 AM | Like many here, I am an artist. I have taken a lot of life drewing classes over the years. i have recently joined with a group of artist that gets together on Sat mornings fora four hour session with a modle. Last week there were 8 of us. We all chip in to pay the models. It's a great way to keep your skills together as well as meet other artist.
If someone needed a 50 + year old out of shape nude male model I would do it. something tells me that there just isn't a whole lot of demand for my body type. | |
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Posted: 7/10/2007 8:04:36 PM | | i was involved in a group of artsts who rather than pay for a model made nudity a compulsary requirement. didnt go too often tbh but found it more natural and less structured than traditional model work. | |
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Posted: 7/15/2007 10:35:49 AM | | Oh my, I seem to be the only one in this thread to say "no". One of my sculpture professors, no too long ago, asked me if I would consider letting him do a body cast of me. It's not posing in the nude but I would have to be naked just the same. I trusted that professor implicitly and know that the casting would have been carried out in the most professional manner, but my response was "Are you out of your mind?!" He understood that to mean "no" and knew me well enough to descern that modesty was driving my statement. I am a mature woman and bearing children has been very unkind to the appearance of my body. I was, and still am, very uncomfortable about anyone seeing my nude body. | |
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Posted: 7/15/2007 6:08:45 PM | | absolutely but only if i knew for sure that it would hang on the wall of LOUVRE someday | |
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Posted: 8/16/2007 7:23:34 AM | >> As long as the artist was a real artist and not some perv looking for a cheap thrill
How can you tell? Today assume *any* picture you send to someone, on your phone, computer, or camera, is going to end up on the internet. (Giving kids photo cell phones is... well.. another issue). Letting someone take nude photos of you ... how do you know what they were photographing? Maybe all they took was your genitals. The way camera cards work, it's easy to hide those, and only show the "good" photos. You sign (or not, how can you *stop* someone from posting photos they took?) and never saw all those photos you would never have allowed....
And, posing for an "artist" ... ?? How do you know his studio isn't wired with video, and/or still photos? It's happened, and it's not "urban myth" .
I've been photographing, and posting on-line, photos of naked women for a long, long time. My first time was about 1985 ... I tied for the first on-line photo show, but took the back seat because it was a nude. It was only in "green" .. for those who remember those days.
I've worked with kids, adults, and people of all ages.
Today, there is more "freedom" (and foolishness) in posting nude photos.
I don't think spread legs should ever be posted, and 99% of what I've seen over the decades on "dating" sites is flat out PORNOGRAPHY... and yet, the "nice" girls do it for whatever reasons. Remember, your kids *will* see the photos. You send a guy a nude as a joke, and he sends it to 1000 friends.
The only good reason to send nude photos is if you are a nude model, if it's your job, hobby, extra income, etc. If you've thought it through, and if you've set limits on what you show/do (as MODEL, not trusting your photographer to protect you).
You should never post photos just to try to interest someone. I don't understand how so many males (I hate to say "guys" or even acknowledge them as human) can think, make such base comments, or imagine that just because a girl is nude, she wants to bump and grind with *YOU* (or anyone else). In the almost 3 decades I've been on-line (I started when I was in middle school, actually, with remote paper-tape terminals), that attitude -- locker room/drunk-barroom talk has gotten out of hand.
But, I digress. That's a whole other issue on "dating" and "relationships"
But, posting nude photos to get a date (like piercing your tongue) sends ONE MESSAGE, and ONE MESSAGE ONLY. (no matter what you think). I WANT SEX, and I'M EASY. Hump me then Dump me, I'm game.
You can argue it... but you'd be wrong :)
And, before trying to argue it, carefully read what I read... and don't make ASS-U-ME-tions (assumptions).
But remember, you send *ANYONE* a photo -- nude or other wise -- in this digital age IT'S OUT THERE FOREVER... that means 200 years from now, barring some earth-blanketing EMP ... it will STILL be out there, some where, on disk,or other storage.
Scott
aka Bodyartist
BTW: As an art/nude photographer for about 30 years, most of that time on-line in some respect, I'm not "new" or some part of the "internet age" (I came from ARPA) and have actual experience and perspective, not imaginings and fantasies-- eg: I'm not talking through my hat. | |
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Posted: 8/16/2007 11:28:50 AM | I just recently have gotten more into photography, and I really like the nudes. My SO has taken pictures of me( it has helped make me more comfortable w/ my body)and I ,of him
As someone else posted, you dont see this in a sexual way, it is the beauty of the body,curves ,all that is sensual,etc.
What I dont like is the "in your face" type of stuff, just for the heck of it.I want there to be some kind of artistic qualities to the shot...but different people have different perspectives of what art is. I was raised around European art, and the way it makes me feel is what I want to capture in my photos.
Just signed up for a class yesterday...wish me luck.
There is nothing like the feeling that you get when what you want and feel is captured in a photo!
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Posted: 8/17/2007 5:04:22 AM | | Well DOVE has certainly broken a lot of barriers down with their innovative and creative personal marketing of the "normal" woman's body. I them royally. I think it is all about maturity and sincerity. I suspect that it is quite a learning process about one's self and their comfortability with their own self imagine! | |
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Posted: 8/17/2007 5:53:39 AM | standing immobile for 20-30 mintues at a time isn't easy.
Very true! I did quite a few times (friends owned/ran an artist studio teaching co-op)...& you get a bit tired holding one pose that long.
One particularly talented woman gave me her work @ the end of the semester...kinda neat to have a reminder of myself @ that age. | |
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Posted: 9/6/2007 12:27:15 AM | I've done that a few times, just total nudes...was very hard to hide the growing excitation as the photoshot goes, that was funny and really hot  | |
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Posted: 9/7/2007 10:00:01 AM |
But remember, you send *ANYONE* a photo -- nude or other wise -- in this digital age IT'S OUT THERE FOREVER... that means 200 years from now, barring some earth-blanketing EMP ... it will STILL be out there, some where, on disk,or other storage.
Honestly, I don't find the idea of someone unearthing a nude picture of me in 200 or so years all that scary. But this thread isn't about sending guys naughty pics, it's about posing for artistic nudes.
I would love to model for an artist I respect. I'd be proud to. But like some of the other posters, I probably wouldn't be good at holding a pose for very long. | |
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Posted: 9/8/2007 2:01:55 PM | | It implies a lot of " one tune " stuff, I mean, something special between the artistic model and the photographer including anyone at studio, even if the male model has not had sex in a relatively long time...if you can keep a " I'm ready to come " status constantly, photoshot will be a lot more artistical. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 5:40:31 PM | art and porn are too totally different things
art if sensual and gorgeous
porn is just that porn  | |
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Posted: 9/13/2007 1:02:53 PM | >> Honestly, I don't find the idea of someone unearthing a nude picture of me in
>> 200 or so years all that scary. But this thread isn't about sending guys naughty
>> pics, it's about posing for artistic nudes.
How about at thanksgiving? Or holiday dinner when the kids get a new computer, and "test" their new access?
Vanessa Hudgens' incident should make people think about what they do, and giving their kids picture photos, and digital cameras, and such.
'nuff said. Adults can do what they want. | |
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Posted: 9/13/2007 2:34:20 PM | I thought this was about posing nude for an artist, but it seems it's become more a concern about digital access. As an artist, I really appreciate the chance to draw a nude. The only time I cared about the physical attributes of the model was in the 70's when one model we had came with tracks everywhere, including between his toes. It was hard to get past that and his disgusting hygiene. He was emaciated to the point where joints were knobs and musculature was distorted. One of the better models was beefier, but very limber and could hold a pose for a long time. Good positive and negative space and visual contrast. Dynamic positions. That was fun.
I modeled for portraiture and figure modeling, but no matter my weight or condition I've only posed nude for my husband. I know better than to be that modest, but just can't get past it. Almost had something set up not too long ago and realized I'd invited a total stranger into my home and stopped it before it progressed further. I like the ideas for just getting a group together and paying a model. Getting pretty rusty. | |
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Posted: 9/14/2007 8:46:20 AM | | headteacher, It is far better for you to work in a group setting. models are expensive and as you said inviting a stranger in your home may not be safe. In my case a female modle might not be comfortable being alone with just one man. | |
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