<p>I was reading the thread about students donating their sperm/eggs, and it made me think back to my college days when I was introduced to a guy who posed nude for the art students. He was not a professional model, or even an art student, just a regular college student earning some extra money. I thought he was BSing me, but I showed up at one of the classes, and there he was on this little platform in his birthday suit. I wonder if his parents knew how he earned his beer money.</p>
<p>No BSing - such jobs do exist. As I was browsing campus employment section on D’s college website when D and I were still researching schools, I came across an ad for a nude model. It had the highest hourly rate of all part-time jobs. The pay was $13/hr compared with $9 for a library assistant and $12 for a lifeguard (who needed to have a lifeguarding certificate). I showed it to my D and we joked about it. D said she’d never go for it, the building might be heated, but there is a reason people wear sweaters in NE.</p>
<p>I considered this when I was a student back in the seventies and actually talked to my mom about it. She is a RISD grad and said I was an unlikely candidate as they are generally looking for models who are a little more “zaftig” (her word) than I.</p>
<p>A simple NO isn’t getting the 10 spaces required to post so here’s another NO.</p>
<p>I seriously considered this when I was in college. But I could get more hours in the dining hall, fully clothed.</p>
<p>H has a story about how he and a roommate walked into an art class to give a student an “urgent message”–just to see the attractive female nude model. Freshmen!
(Apparently the model and the student receiving the not-so-urgent message were not amused).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want my kids to model, and I don’t think they’d want to, either.</p>
<p>As a college student, I think I’d actually like to do this some day. I like my body, so why not share it?!?</p>
<p>I hope all instructors refuse to allow cell phones, etc. in the studio. Anything that can send or recieve messages or take pictrues.</p>
<p>I did it when I was in college (although not at the college I attended) and it was fairly easy work. But then again, I went to art school and was used to nude figure classes. For most students, after the initial curiosity, it’s down to the business of painting and drawing. It’s a fairly clinical setting, not erotic at all. (Although once, as an art student, we had a model who was clearly an exhibitionist and we were all creeped out.)</p>
<p>I would be fine with my D doing it, but nowadays would worry about stalkers and weirdos, since she seems to attract so many. But most art students are appropriate in their behavior to models.</p>
<p>they don’t have to take pictures, they’re drawing one!</p>
<p>I meant in case there are any creepy students.</p>
<p>I may have been the exception to the rule, but 30 years ago, I had never seen a guy naked. My roommate was an art major, and she talked me into taking Life Drawing with her saying pretty much all we’d be drawing would be silhouettes, fruits and vegetables. I should have asked her to clarify the “pretty much”. I remember she carefully arranged to sit across the room from me… just so she could get the full impact of my expression. Hahaha, apparently she asked the model, a friend, to be sure to face me and present all his parts directly toward me. I did get used to it, but that first day, I literally thought my face was burning off me. I don’t even think I was able to draw anything recognizable.</p>
<p>He was a senior art student and had no problem walking around the studio naked. Must have been good money to sit around and do nothing for an hour or so. I would probably laugh if either of my boys did this, but wouldn’t have any problem with it.</p>
<p>If colleges are serious about fighting global warming, they should have only female models. I’m guessing the male models demand the temperature in the studios to be quite high.</p>
<p>An 18 yo is more pleasant to draw than an 68 yo. Both ages have their challenges, and seeing the first drawings that DS had, he’d been better off drawing the 18 yo than the 68 yo. (too many folds, creases, and sharp edges (read fatty areas, aging sags, bony parts)).</p>
<p>I go to two life drawing classes a week and I honestly don’t give the male or female nudity a second thought. Most of the models we have are dancers or other art students. They are generally pretty interesting people.</p>
<p>I would have no problem with my kid doing this, though since my kid won’t even wear shorts in the summer, it’s easy for me to say this!</p>
<p>Having to deal with nude models was the main reason I never took any art classes. I never really understood why drawing could only be taught if all body parts were exposed. Is there a special technique needed for those parts covered by a Speedo?</p>
<p>Of course, my degree was in nursing, so I still got to see plenty of nude bodies.</p>
<p>Somebody I know was offered $350 to do a locker room scene in a movie and show his bare butt. (He’s 20). </p>
<p>He said yes.</p>
<p>The director changed his mind about the scene so it didn’t happen.</p>
<p>I asked some men if they would do this for $350, and most said they would do it for free.</p>
<p>I said I wouldn’t. As a 50ish male, I really don’t want my 12 foot wide butt on the screen. :)</p>
<p>I would have no problem with it. By the time my Ds were of college age, I expected that they’d make this type of decision themselves, and I respected the fact that they were capable of making these decisions without my input. My D who is the actor, has performed scenes onstage in the nude, so an art class in a closed studio situation would be a piece of cake.</p>
<p>I’d have no problem with it. Of all the things I worry he might someday do that could hurt him/someone else or would not want him to do, this simply is not on the list.</p>
<p>I had a summer roommate in college who did art modeling. $20/hr in 1980 was darned good money! She was an art student as well, so she was comfortable on both sides of the sketchpad.</p>
<p>I’d have more of a problem with my kids donating genetic material…</p>