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If you are saying to yourself this doesn’t look like a drawing by Marty, you are right. Here is the story of how it got in my sketchbook.
A question for my female readers. What would you do if the man you started dating told you one day he was going to go to a local art center to do some some figure drawing. To draw a naked person. Well, if you are like most people who were not raised or exposed to art or art education in your past you might be pretty wary. What is going to go on there? What sort of porno stripper girls would pose for this sort of thing, anyway? Why is he going to do this, it’s not really for ‘art’ I bet.
That was the situation a woman I was dating in San Francisco in 1979 found herself in. Her response was to ask to come along. She was curious and wanted to see what it was all about. Maybe she also thought if she was there I would ‘behave’ or something, who knows. I thought it would be a fun date and said sure, come along.
Off we went to the Art Center. I let her borrow my sketchbook, pencils, erasers, charcoal, etc. We got set up in the studio with about 20 other people and waited for the model to come out. Out came the model, the MALE model, dropping his cover and taking his first pose.
My date did NOT expect this. She was very fair skinned and it’s fair to say she blushed about 5 shades of red when the model had his great reveal. She wasn’t an artist, had never done any drawing, and was now sitting in front of a naked guy attempting to both stare at him, not stare at him, and draw him with some level of accuracy. Or maybe just keep drawing until the session was over so she could breathe again. But to her credit, she did what we were all there to do and that was to draw. The drawing above is one from that session.
I have to admit I got a great kick out of the turn of events. It really couldn’t have been any better. She saw what figure drawing is really all about, she experienced how hard it really is, and she got to look at a pretty fit and trim naked guy for a couple hours. What did I get out of it? She became my wife. We are no longer married but the story is still a great one.
Drawing by Kathy Coleman
Story by Marty Coleman
>roflmbo.. hey she didn't do half bad.. much better then I would have lol..
>Great story!! 🙂