why do i have to draw his penis?

I took an anatomy class back in HS. It was pretty bad. The models we got progessively got worse. Either the chicks got fatter, droopier... while the guys looked like they crawled out of dumps and sewage drains. Once, when this one fat chick came in and disrobed... I stopped drawing and looked the other way for the entire class. *shudder*
I remembered another time this chick was built like a guy. I couldn't help but be intrigued yet disgusted at the same time.

One of my friends told me that he took this college anatomy class. It cost him a pretty penny, but he told me that the guys and chicks that modeled were ripped and slim. I wish I took that class to save me the horror....

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Originally posted by Hero
not in my experience.

All in the 40-yrs range, and none that aged gracefully. I think the reason they do this (it is intentional, isn't it?) is so you concentrate more on the figure's pose, form, shapes, ect. and less on oogling.

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Great...just great. I dunno if that would have a positive effect on my concentration or a negative effect...probably the latter.

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Originally posted by fiend_of_rejections
I took an anatomy class back in HS. It was pretty bad.

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WTF? You had naked models in HS?

Ack!!! I have to take two classes of this. I've already taken one....I needed a break after that. Too much of the naked man is not a good thing....though the naked woman was far from any better, and she had a funny odor.

i went to the same high school with fiend of rejections and well... yea...

and hero hit it right in the nose. but still, it wasn't pretty at all and you were immediately cursed if you got the money shot pointed in your direction. you would think a chick posing nude for 45 minutes or so would be good. you just don't even know. i'd much rather (and would have prefered) to sketch and draw some of the girls in my class nude though.

jesus, what is the big deal? I've taken countless life drawing classes (my first one when I was 14). If you can't be mature about it and accept the class for what it is, then you're in the wrong place. You'd be surprised how many people in your class genuinely want to be there.

It's not that I don't wanna be there, and it was never a big deal in the first place....but when it's the same person over and over, etc. it's got a little annoying....to me anyways. :)

I know plenty of art majors (living near an art college does that), and I hear tons of complaints just like these. Makes me never want to take a life-drawing class after all those descriptions.

The models don't have to be gorgeous, but at least consider if anyone would actually want to be near or see that person in the first place.

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Originally posted by remotec
jesus, what is the big deal? I've taken countless life drawing classes (my first one when I was 14). If you can't be mature about it and accept the class for what it is, then you're in the wrong place. You'd be surprised how many people in your class genuinely want to be there.

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who said that i didn't accept the class for what it was? just sayin' penis's aren't pretty. nothin' to do with maturity. funny and strange things'll still happen no matter what. and i do genuinely want to be in the class.

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WTF? You had naked models in HS?

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Went to a specialized art highschool. F.H. Laguardia School of Music & Art. We needed a parent's signature to attend the class. I thought it would be a good learning experience. Learned that the world is cold, cruel place.

well, my art teacher said we should be happy we didn't have to do what she had to in college. Her prof. made students pair up, and take turns drawing each other nude. No joke.

That story had every other guy googling the ladies and every female agast.

Woo...used agast in a sentence. Bonus points.