why do i have to draw his penis?

[skelly]

[sig-bait] I see nothing wrong with having to draw a handsome penis. [/sig-bait]

I can see where the ambivalence comes in when the models are less than stunning, though.

[Hero]

Originally posted by Apokryphos
I'm aghast that you thought agast was a word. Twice.

can you blame me for bad spelling? ^^U

Originally posted by bahn
Re: Agast

Spell-check is your friend, Hero

*stabs self*

[rezo]

I don't draw all that much, but I hate when people take vacation and everyday pictures that don't include a person in them. Without people, life is nothing.

If the person is less than an Adonis or an Aphrodite, that's just more of a challenge. There is something worth capturing about every model's personality, even if it's just that they are poor and really need the free lunch.

yeah, although I never use references unless I'm forced ( x_X ) I always feel compelled to stick a person in whatever scene I'm drawing. If I'm making a shot of the forest, then someone will be sitting on a rock, or up in a tree, or something. It doesn't seem right without them in there. =\

Of course if I see a photo of a mountain with two people grinning in front, I'd probably rather not have them there. But maybe a mountain climber or something. . . they must fit the mood of the environment I think. And since I'm not a photographer, I make the environment fit their mood~

[ik]

Whenever I'm drawing a naked guy in art class,I usually choose a seat so that his penis cant be seen fom my point-of-view(i.e covered by his knee or something).

I dont actually hate men's genitalia (I really LOVE mine) but just putting a pencil to paper and drawing droopy dicks(repetition is funny) just dosnt feel aesthetically pleasing.

[cigsthecat]

Well, if you go to art school or want to draw (and get better) for a living, get used to it. Pretty soon you'll be chatting up the models on breaks as they get dressed without batting an eyelash. As with almost anything, when you've been doing it for years it becomes no big deal. Even if it's a 60 year old man playing a fife. Yes, that happened.

Instead of worrying about whether you can see the model's dick, or if that European girl's got some crazy armpit hair- worry about the quality of the poses. If a model can hold the fuck still, frankly I don't care what they look like. There's nothing worse than one that fidgets, or loses their balance. Models who like to talk a lot during poses bother me as well. Once you start appreciating the body as something you are trying to learn to draw inside and out, in any position it becomes too fascinating to care all that much if she's got some nice tits or whatever. Not that it wouldn't be nice, but it's not the point.

It's odd how when you've got a naked woman up on a pedestal in a spotlight your eye still wanders to the fully clothed female class members.

[Hero]

cigs~ I learned that real quick - after a week I was more pissed off that this one guy couldn't stop moving around and rubbing his nose than complaining that he wasn't a 'hot chick.'

[missinghopper]

cigsthecat~ i agree with what you said when you said that the eye wanders to the clothes chicks, becuase your imagination can imagine things that are far more better then actually seeing it

[Gecco]

I guess I've been really lucky in my life drawing classes. In my first class I had a very pretty female model which was nice because the curves were actually fun to draw. Right now my class has a male model and even though he wears a pair of those high cut jockey shorts(hey, not every model wants to be naked) I don't think I'd have a problem with drawing him naked. Also, my prof had a good way of introducing us to drawing the nude figure. He'd have the model switch poses every 15 or 20 seconds and we'd have to draw each pose. Basically, we just had enough time to draw a stick figure pose and not focus on the nakedness.

[Jester]

I always hasd to draw the same 60 year old overweight ex biker chick. It was horrible. I have drawings that I can scan and upload if you feel like throwing up. It always made me mad to see the upper level drawing classes get to draw this hot 25 year old chick. I talked to her a couple of times when she was on break from posing and they only get paid like 5 dollars an hour to do it. Which probably explains the people they get. The only reason they got the hot chick was because she was a total freak and got off on art.

[Klonoa]

I want to draw some naked chicks bad, but more than that I really want to get my anatomy skills down. I gotta wait till Sept though.

This thread reminds me of that budweiser commercial.