Modeling for Life Drawing

May 18, 2013 at 05:22 AM
Home arrow Appendices arrow Advanced Search
Advanced Search
 
:
Search Keyword Modeling returned 125 matches

Adding a "new" book! (News & Updates/New Articles)
Dear User,Here is the beginning of a new book "Perspectives on Figure Modeling," which I started writing 30 years ago.  I'll plan to post other chapters later.  Please send me your suggestio …
01 Dec, 2011
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Perspectives on Figure Modeling/Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship)
...en hidden, diminished, cut out or overlooked in finished works of art.  The second presumption is that modeling is demeaning. It is seen as an activity outside a person’s real goals, unless tha …
30 Nov, 2011
 
Two quotes, a comment and a riddle (News & Updates/New Articles)
“Beauty Rules,” from a Lord & Taylor ad in the NY Times.  I think that beauty knows better than to rule, because in ruling it ceases being beauty.“There is a lot of anger in love someti …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (2) (News & Updates/New Articles)
When I first started modeling, I did it in answer to a dare from models and artists in my Hoboken (NJ) drawing group that I would find it too embarrassing.  I shared this worry, but I also …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Drawing People Whole: Portraiture vs. Figure Drawing (News & Updates/New Articles)
Figure drawing is drawing people as people are; portraiture is drawing this person as this person is.  Figure drawing specializes in what is generic, portraiture in what is specific.  Portra …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (1) (News & Updates/New Articles)
Many people are concerned about modeling and sexual expression.  For many years I worried about this, even after I started modeling, and I still recognize it, in myself and in others, as a …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Fondness Over Time (News & Updates/New Articles)
In the last article, I wrote that “fondness is key.”  To some people we are attracted immediately; with others, fondness—even intense fondness—develops, but only over time.  Initiall …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Life-drawing: Fondness is Key (News & Updates/New Articles)
One of the things I have felt since I first began drawing people, and then modeling for them, is that I do best when I am fond of the people I am working with.  I want to be able to admire them, …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling for Miniatures (News & Updates/New Articles)
...size of a sculpture and maintain its intensity?  When I am making more than one sculpture based on the modeling of the same person, I must also make sure that I find the real similarities and …
14 Jan, 2011
 
“I Feel Pretty” (News & Updates/New Articles)
...e that I should not ask others to do something for me that I was not glad to do for them.  I started modeling first for people in my own workshop, and then for colleges in the New York area.& …
14 Jan, 2011
 
Poems to Model With (1) (News & Updates/New Articles)
  When I model, I like to put as much of me as I can into the artist-model relationship – so I like to put talking and/or singing as part of the mix.While this may not be appropriate in a studi …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Recognize and Remember (News & Updates/New Articles)
...sure it is always in Sarah, shining, for people to find.  I know that I want to use her smile in the modeling workshop that I have proposed to The Art Space, if she decides to come, and I kno …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (3) (News & Updates/New Articles)
...ng myself is the commonest way of being, but it’s also the only way in which I can be new.  I find modeling a special “how” for all of this at once.  Drawing people nude can have t …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (2) (News & Updates/New Articles)
   I have worked with many subjects, and with many students, from nursery school into graduate school.  As I have studied “teaching people,” I have learned that the “who-being-tau …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (News & Updates/New Articles)
  I got my first assignment as a teacher when I graduated from high school at sixteen years old and was asked by my pastor to prepare a ten-year old girl for her first communion.   I wa …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Modeling for These Artists (News & Updates/New Articles)
...gue wrote:  “I am not sure what would motivate someone to participate in a workshop program based on modeling for art as the theme.”  To me, the theme is more accurately described as “ …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Naturists proved especially good as models (News & Updates/New Articles)
...earned only after long practice), because we did not need clothes to make us comfortable.  To me, good modeling is a performing art that gains both from skill and from practice; but we need to …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Poems to Model With (2) (News & Updates/New Articles)
  The third poem is one I especially like to use when posing along with a person I am particularly fond of.   I have used this working with several different people in different situati …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Real Relationships (News & Updates/New Articles)
 Over the past weeks my wife, Beth, and I have watched a few movies which portrayed relationships of various kinds.  Three of these movies are classic triumphs:  To Kill a Mocking Bird, …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Presentation (News & Updates/New Articles)
...eard people say that to model, all you need to do is take off your clothes and be there.  I think that modeling especially involves self-presentation. We need to address ourselves to people, …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Three Practices Together (News & Updates/New Articles)
In my own experience, I have put three practices together:  life drawing, figure modeling and giving workshops in both.  I can work best with any of these when I am working with all three, c …
01 Jul, 2010
 
Life-Modeling as a Business and an Art (News & Updates/Life-Modeling Workshop)
Life-Modeling as a Business and an Art: Workshop Description    For many years, people who work as models for artists and for artist groups have been expected to rely on self-training.& …
29 Jun, 2010
 
Workshop Schedule (News & Updates/Life-Modeling Workshop)
...” model    •    Models’ rights     •    Modeling and career    •    Art modeling vs. fashion model …
30 Apr, 2010
 
Introduction to the Web Edition (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
...e were places where I might need to update it.   A lot has happened, in fields related to art, to modeling and to publishing over the last twenty years, and it would not have been surprising …
30 Jan, 2010
 
List of Illustrations (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
..., Page 6 Some Don’ts, Page 14 Professional Suggestions, Page 19 Professional Suggestions, Page 20 The Modeling Business, Page 26 Advancement in the Field, Page 30 …
30 Jan, 2010
 
Acknowledgements for Original Text (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
...a, who has worked with me for almost twenty years, Diane Elliot, the first model who made me recognize that modeling is a profession. Sue Riccobon through whom I learned to match model with material, …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Actual Income Calculator (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
Use our Actual Income Calculator to calculate exactly what your hourly income is on a job, after travel time and expenses. …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Website History (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
This website is the online development of a 1988 self-published book/pamphlet by Hugh Kilmer entitled Modeling for Life Drawing. The work was first written in 1973, by a group of models and art …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Model Release Form (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
We offer a simple Model Release Form (PDF Format) for your use. …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Model Evaluation Form (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
We offer a simple Model Evaluation Form for Artist/Moderators (PDF Format) for your use. …
13 Jan, 2010
 
Preface to Original Text (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/About Modeling for Life Drawing)
...tic vulnerability and professional objectivity. I explain to them that we can do all these things because modeling is a special skill -- an art form in and of itself, and that those of us who pract …
13 Jan, 2010
 
What if/when you decide to stop being a model... (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
..., to be very disappointed. B) Expect to miss it yourself; leave yourself reasonably open to occasional modeling in the future, for people you really like. C) Maintain social contacts with mo …
12 Jan, 2010
 
Artist Evaluation Form (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
We offer a simple Artist/Moderator Evaluation Form for Models (PDF Format) for your use. …
11 Jan, 2010
 
31. Practising Together (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Advancement in the Field)
Modeling is a performing art; usually it is a lonely one. As withacting, singing, and dancing, however, it can he improved by groupattention. Even solo performers work with teachers, do recitalstogeth …
20 Dec, 2009
 
30. Forming a Group (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Advancement in the Field)
Artists are more likely to call on a model when they know you canbe reached, and are sure to turn up yourself, or arrange for asubstitute, if you aren't available. Get in touch with other models;make …
20 Dec, 2009
 
32. Social Contacts (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Advancement in the Field)
Modeling brings a person, naked, into public contact with otherpeople, all of whom are clothed. The discrepancy between clothednessand nakedness sets up an artificial separation which tends to beconti …
19 Dec, 2009
 
28. Finding Modeling Assignments (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
...d Schools".  Send your resume addressed to "director" witha cover letter explaining that you do figure modeling, andoffering to call the office the following week, to discusspossibilities.  …
18 Dec, 2009
 
27. Interview (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
...when and how will thatpay be provided (cash, check, once a month, at the session,and such like).B)  Is modeling to be totally nude, or may you be required towear a posing strap (male G-string) or …
18 Dec, 2009
 
26. Portfolio (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
After you have started modeling, ask artists, photographers, andstudents whose work you particularly like to let you keep one or twoof the studies they make.  Put these studies together in a larg …
18 Dec, 2009
 
25. Resume and Business Card (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
A)  Prepare a resume slanted toward modeling assignments.  Thisresume should stress your education and experience inperforming and in people-related activities.  It shouldstress skills …
18 Dec, 2009
 
22. Clothes and Accessories (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Accessories)
A)  A model's clothes provide warmth, comfort, and (for manypeople) a feeling of security, between poses, and provideaccents during poses.  An ankle-length robe can often beuseful for all th …
18 Dec, 2009
 
20. Practicing Poses (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Professional Suggestions)
...s prejudicial to women; our wholeculture needs to unlearn it. Pants are a heIp inovercoming this prejudice; modeling nude, in natural poses,can be very helpful indeed. Recreate the feeling inyourself …
18 Dec, 2009
 
18. Who Should Not Model (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Some Don'ts)
A)  People who can't find a way to enjoy modeling should notmodel.B)  People who can't get comfortable with nudity should notmodel nude.C)  People under sixteen should not model except …
18 Dec, 2009
 
17. Burnout (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Some Don'ts)
...n if this offers financial difficulty.  You are likely to have afresh perspective when you get back to modeling - if you haven'twaited too long before you took your break.Find a new setting for m …
18 Dec, 2009
 
29. Financial Records (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/The Modeling "Business")
For two reasons, it is good to keep track of income and expensesrelated to modeling assignments.A) To make sure that records are straight for tax purposes.B) To make sure that your modeling assignment …
18 Dec, 2009
 
24. Other Things to Bring (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Accessories)
A)  A large towel.  This can serve many purposes: it can be acomfortable rug, a comfortable seat cover, a drape, ablanket, a furniture protector, a hair cover, and so on.B)  A model-rel …
18 Dec, 2009
 
23. Glasses, Jewels, Body Hair, and Other Decorations (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Accessories)
Getting undressed for modeling is very different from gettingundressed for taking a bath or for going to bed.  "Costumes" reveal,accent, and conceal; the modeling costume - nakedness - is designe …
18 Dec, 2009
 
19. Types of Poses (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Professional Suggestions)
A)  "Stretched" poses: usually short, (30 seconds to 2 minutes)take unusual shapes, usually feel stretched; used by artistsfor studies in foreshortening, action, and "character".These serve well …
18 Dec, 2009
 
Time Out! (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Time Out!)
...atisfying.  The following sections ofthis pamphlet carry on, following the spirit of adventure, to makemodeling the satisfying profession that it must be to fulfill itspurpose: its role in art. …
18 Dec, 2009
 
14. When Not to Sign a Model Release (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Some Don'ts)
Do not sign a model release:A)  If the photographer and a witness do not sign also.B)  If you are not provided with a copy of the signed release.C)  If you are not convinced that the ph …
18 Dec, 2009
 
12. Unexpected Visitors (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
...s people you know from your role in life as a stockbroker (or something) turn up at a session where you are modeling.This may embarrass you, or your contact, or both.  There are severalpossible r …
18 Dec, 2009
 
9. Exercises (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
A regular course of exercises can help you gain greater controlof your body, especially for moving poses, stretched poses, and longposes.  Yoga is especially helpful for long poses. …
18 Dec, 2009
 
3. Artist's Rights (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Basics)
...st analternate, if unable to take part in a session.B)  Model provides full attention to best possible modeling.C)  Artist's work is private, and need not be shared (of course,sharing can be …
18 Dec, 2009
 
11. Sexual Stirrings (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
... if it does work.  It contradicts therevelation of self which, at least symbolically, is the essence ofmodeling as an art.  Third it is unnecessary, since someone's sexualorgans are just as …
18 Dec, 2009
 
6. Length of Sessions (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Practical Considerations)
There are three basic types of modeling sessions with a group.The first is a two-hour or under session.  This kind is non-tiring,but likely to be unsatisfying both for model and for artist, becau …
18 Dec, 2009
 
5. Fashion Modeling (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Basics)
Fashion modeling differs from modeling for life-drawing for several reasons: A)  The fashion-modeling job is better paid. B)  The career of a fashion model is usually short, because …
18 Dec, 2009
 
4. Modeling as a Base for a Broader Career (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Basics)
Most people who model do not consider modeling their primarycareer, but model to increase their income while they are trying todevelop careers in other fields.  Good modeling itself, however, is …
18 Dec, 2009
 
Dedication (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Appendices)
. …
14 Dec, 2009
 
1. Who Should Model? (Original Modeling for Life Drawing Manuscript/Basics)
Modeling is a valuable activity for people who have, or who want,a career in any performing art.  It is helpful for development ofself-image, and correction of minor physical and emotionalimbalan …
08 Dec, 2009
 
Adding a "new" book! (Menu)
Dear User,Here is the beginning of a new book "Perspectives on Figure Modeling," which I started writing 30 years ago.  I'll plan to post other chapters later.  Please send me your suggestio …
01 Dec, 2011
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Menu)
...en hidden, diminished, cut out or overlooked in finished works of art.  The second presumption is that modeling is demeaning. It is seen as an activity outside a person’s real goals, unless tha …
30 Nov, 2011
 
Two quotes, a comment and a riddle (Menu)
“Beauty Rules,” from a Lord & Taylor ad in the NY Times.  I think that beauty knows better than to rule, because in ruling it ceases being beauty.“There is a lot of anger in love someti …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (2) (Menu)
When I first started modeling, I did it in answer to a dare from models and artists in my Hoboken (NJ) drawing group that I would find it too embarrassing.  I shared this worry, but I also …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Drawing People Whole: Portraiture vs. Figure Drawing (Menu)
Figure drawing is drawing people as people are; portraiture is drawing this person as this person is.  Figure drawing specializes in what is generic, portraiture in what is specific.  Portra …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Sexuality (1) (Menu)
Many people are concerned about modeling and sexual expression.  For many years I worried about this, even after I started modeling, and I still recognize it, in myself and in others, as a …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Fondness Over Time (Menu)
In the last article, I wrote that “fondness is key.”  To some people we are attracted immediately; with others, fondness—even intense fondness—develops, but only over time.  Initiall …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling and Life-drawing: Fondness is Key (Menu)
One of the things I have felt since I first began drawing people, and then modeling for them, is that I do best when I am fond of the people I am working with.  I want to be able to admire them, …
15 Jun, 2011
 
Modeling for Miniatures (Menu)
This post was written following a workshop on sculpting miniatures taught by Paris Alexander at The Artspace in Raleigh, NC in Summer 2010. “I have three of you on my kitchen table in blue.”  …
14 Jan, 2011
 
“I Feel Pretty” (Menu)
It seems reasonable to suppose that most people who choose to model for artists begin with a feeling that they are worthwhile to look at.  This is true, but not necessarily in a way that is evide …
14 Jan, 2011
 
Poems to Model With (1) (Menu)
  When I model, I like to put as much of me as I can into the artist-model relationship – so I like to put talking and/or singing as part of the mix. …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Recognize and Remember (Menu)
  There are two things that I want to stress in working with models, and I think that both are important.  I want to recognize people when I have seen them before, and I want to remember the …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (3) (Menu)
  Maybe the only impossibility that is real is repetition.  The only reality that is not new is newness.    At the same time, “novelty” is not new, because doing something …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (2) (Menu)
   I have worked with many subjects, and with many students, from nursery school into graduate school.  As I have studied “teaching people,” I have learned that the “who-being-tau …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Teaching as Delight (Menu)
  I got my first assignment as a teacher when I graduated from high school at sixteen years old and was asked by my pastor to prepare a ten-year old girl for her first communion.   I wa …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Modeling for These Artists (Menu)
...gue wrote:  “I am not sure what would motivate someone to participate in a workshop program based on modeling for art as the theme.”  To me, the theme is more accurately described as “ …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Naturists proved especially good as models (Menu)
Naturists, or people who practice a clothes-optional lifestyle, proved especially good as models (this comfort I had learned only after long practice), because we did not need clothes to make us comfo …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Poems to Model With (2) (Menu)
  The third poem is one I especially like to use when posing along with a person I am particularly fond of.   I have used this working with several different people in different situati …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Real Relationships (Menu)
 Over the past weeks my wife, Beth, and I have watched a few movies which portrayed relationships of various kinds.  Three of these movies are classic triumphs:  To Kill a Mocking Bird, …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Presentation (Menu)
...eard people say that to model, all you need to do is take off your clothes and be there.  I think that modeling especially involves self-presentation.  …
06 Jul, 2010
 
Three Practices Together (Menu)
In my own experience, I have put three practices together:  life drawing, figure modeling and giving workshops in both.  I can work best with any of these when I am working with all three, c …
01 Jul, 2010
 
Life-Modeling as a Business and an Art (Menu)
Life-Modeling as a Business and an Art: Workshop Description    For many years, people who work as models for artists and for artist groups have been expected to rely on self-training.& …
29 Jun, 2010
 
Workshop Schedule (Menu)
...” model    •    Models’ rights     •    Modeling and career    •    Art modeling vs. fashion model …
30 Apr, 2010
 
Introduction to the Web Edition (Menu)
30 Jan, 2010
 
List of Illustrations (Menu)
30 Jan, 2010
 
Acknowledgements for Original Text (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Actual Income Calculator (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Website History (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Model Release Form (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Model Evaluation Form (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
Preface to Original Text (Menu)
13 Jan, 2010
 
What if/when you decide to stop being a model... (Menu)
12 Jan, 2010
 
Artist Evaluation Form (Menu)
11 Jan, 2010
 
Income Calculator (Menu)
You can prepare a financial cost-benefit analysis for each session: …
09 Jan, 2010
 
31. Practising Together (Menu)
20 Dec, 2009
 
30. Forming a Group (Menu)
20 Dec, 2009
 
32. Social Contacts (Menu)
19 Dec, 2009
 
28. Finding Modeling Assignments (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
27. Interview (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
26. Portfolio (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
25. Resume and Business Card (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
22. Clothes and Accessories (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
20. Practicing Poses (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
18. Who Should Not Model (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
17. Burnout (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
29. Financial Records (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
24. Other Things to Bring (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
23. Glasses, Jewels, Body Hair, and Other Decorations (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
19. Types of Poses (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
Time Out! (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
14. When Not to Sign a Model Release (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
12. Unexpected Visitors (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
9. Exercises (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
3. Artist's Rights (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
11. Sexual Stirrings (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
6. Length of Sessions (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
5. Fashion Modeling (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
4. Modeling as a Base for a Broader Career (Menu)
18 Dec, 2009
 
Dedication (Menu)
14 Dec, 2009
 
1. Who Should Model? (Menu)
Modeling is a valuable activity for people who have, or who want,a career in any performing art.  It is helpful for development ofself-image, and correction of minor physical and emotionalimbalan …
08 Dec, 2009
 
The Modeling "Business" (Category List)
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Category Blog)
...en hidden, diminished, cut out or overlooked in finished works of art.  The second presumption is that modeling is demeaning. It is seen as an activity outside a person’s real goals, unless tha …
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Category Blog)
...en hidden, diminished, cut out or overlooked in finished works of art.  The second presumption is that modeling is demeaning. It is seen as an activity outside a person’s real goals, unless tha …
 
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship (Category List)
...en hidden, diminished, cut out or overlooked in finished works of art.  The second presumption is that modeling is demeaning. It is seen as an activity outside a person’s real goals, unless tha …
 
About Modeling for Life Drawing (Category List)
 
Perspectives on Figure Modeling (Section List)
Perspectives on Figure Modeling is a book that Hugh Kilmer, the this website's primary author started writing thirty years ago in 1980.We have begun publishing the chapters one at a time here on the M …
 
 
Total 125 results found. Search for Modeling with Yahoo!