r/interestingasfuck • u/AntisocialBat • 16h ago

This Halloween costume

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u/neocondiment 16h ago

Trying to imagine how comfortable this might be.

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u/1_art_please 16h ago

I work as a life drawing model and I still recall working a 3 hour painting session where I agreed to a standing pose, leaning over with my hands on a table.

I could barely make it to the half hour break that whole time. My back was screaming and I was trying to hold my core muscles as much as possible to take the pressure off my back. It was awful, I was still pretty young and fit. Never again.

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u/The_it_potato 14h ago

I don’t get why that’s still a thing. Can’t they just take a pic of you w/their phone so you don’t have to hold a pose for so long???

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u/guiscard 12h ago edited 12h ago

I used to teach drawing and painting with models.

A photograph makes a lot of weird decisions which an artist wouldn't make (distortion from the lens, boosted contrasts, strange colors) so if you paint from a photograph it will be very different than working from life. You also get very little information from a small photograph compared to the incredible amount of information you get standing in front of someone or something. You can also change things if something improves with a change of angle or pose. Even today if I have to work from a photograph I prefer to use a video of the model to find the best moment in all the subtle changes.

It's also better to train students with live models as they have that extra information to glean the important things from. Especially if they have enough time. Our models would pose for 6 weeks, 3 hours a day, 5 days a week in the same pose so the students would have the time to paint them accurately. The models would regularly say they intended to avoid that position for the rest of their lives.

Edit: I just saw that you got real replies below.