I teach figure drawing. Let me answer your first three questions: Yes, they’re naked. Yes, they get paid. Yes, it’s weird… for the first five minutes, the first time, for us and for the model. Then it’s such difficult work that it stops being weird and turns into work. I teach students anatomy, too,…

I taught a life drawing class the other day. It was late in the term and there was a test coming up soon, so I’d been giving the students little pop quizzes to help them prepare. That day, we had a model in and I had to ask him to wait while everyone did this…