In the Before Times, I had occasionally gone to life-drawing classes: part social activity, part attempt to improve drawing skills. I would say I sort of enjoyed them; I liked the atmosphere, the ...

Alida Pepper was staring down depression. Stuck in her apartment in San Francisco, she worried that all the plans she’d made were about to unravel. For months, Pepper, a full-time life drawing model, ...

Dan Santat and the late Jerry Pinkney draw from life (literally) in their memoirs for young readers. By David Small According to an apocryphal story, the 19th-century French illustrator Gustave Doré ...