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Offline jim_24601

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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #50 on: September 27, 2005, 11:14:09 AM
LAST comment,
i don't think that will help the stage fear, well, unless u play piano nude on stage...

Like this? https://www.intriguing.com/mp/_pictures/compdiff/nudeorga.jpg

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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #51 on: September 27, 2005, 11:18:47 AM
er... he is not really naked, he is wearing a tie. ::)
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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #52 on: September 27, 2005, 02:55:01 PM
sorry im too young to approach this topic maturely so i think i better not post  ;D

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Reply #53 on: September 28, 2005, 12:39:02 PM
sorry im too young to approach this topic maturely so i think i better not post  ;D

How old (young ;D) are you then if I may ask? :P

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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #54 on: September 28, 2005, 02:56:42 PM
christianity didn't try to put a halt to biology.  otherwise, birth control would be used more.

I think that just about agrees with what I meant.
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what would posing nude do for a person except embarrass them?

Why would it embarrass them? It might embarrass you, of course. Roald Dahl's short story is a warning about that societies taboos, not about posing for an artist.

Generally, the idea about life drawing is to see anatomy so you can learn to draw it.

It's academic. Much like the dissections performed to teach Doctors, except perhaps, when they had one shown on TV here, there was probably enough fear and disgust response by the red gooey bits that the nakedness didn't trigger.

A lot of 3d modelling sites have a few that get their knickers in a twist when, inevitably, the odd work in progress has naked humans in it, even though they aren't real people - otoh they also have a fair few of the age that get excited looking at the bra section in a home shopping catalogue creating them to blur the line about whether it's art.

Those 3d sites also show, inadvertantly, why to use real people for it - because if someone posted a 100% accurate 3d model of themselves, correct in every detail and proportion, to a 3d modelling site, 50% of the comments would be "The nose is too big" "The ears are too low" "The butt sticks out too much" "the thumbs are too small" etc etc - in other words the naive strive for a perfection in proportion and assume that, the very things that make someone look like they do, and not like someone else are "mistakes" when it comes to art.

Ironically, despite the clear desire amongst many to see certain parts of anatomy, even when the context isn't sexual or intimate at all - from which you'd suspect that, given the opportunity, they'd have done it as often as possible - much of learning to draw is more or less about realising you've never really looked at it at all.

So I would say it's no big deal. It's about anatomy - and there are better places to see naked people in the context of them being "hot" or provocative etc where you can get embarrassed for the people doing it. But it's a good thing that some aren't for this specific thing.

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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #55 on: May 25, 2007, 05:15:57 AM
I just met someone, actually, who had this on his resume.  He is a tenor and a student at a conservatory, and I met him at a professional class for Opera singers two weekends ago.  One of the masters of the class pulled up a chair next to him, and mentioned to him that she saw on his resume that he had "nude modeling for an art class" on there, and she mentioned that this is unique and that it definitely stands out.  They went on talking a bit about it.

Remembering this thread, I had a little laugh to myself and tuned the rest of the conversation out -- but, I will say, it seemed to make a favorable impression  :).
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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #56 on: May 25, 2007, 06:36:59 AM
What exactly stood out, m1469 ?
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Reply #57 on: May 25, 2007, 02:58:11 PM
The fact that he had "nude modeling" on his resume -- it's "different," I guess :).
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Reply #58 on: May 25, 2007, 03:48:16 PM
haha Perfect for nude opera roles, are there many? ;)
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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #59 on: May 25, 2007, 04:01:27 PM
I don't know.  :)
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Reply #60 on: May 25, 2007, 04:10:26 PM
I'd write one just for you then  ;D :P
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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #61 on: May 25, 2007, 04:12:27 PM
u seen me nude, havent ya, mayla?
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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #62 on: May 25, 2007, 06:13:46 PM
I've never performed anything on piano but I've played a couple of gigs on bass guitar where I had almost no previous experience with the material or the band, I was given a few chord sheets on the night but I'm not sure they were even entirely accurate, I just had to improvise along by ear really.  This was actually my first ever live gig.

At first I was pretty terrified, standing on an elevated stage with everyone watching you, but part way through the first song I realized something: "This is what I've put all this time into music for, there is nowhere in the world I'd rather be!".  As soon as I realized this I just started enjoying myself and my playing improved too, no more nervousness; just excitement.  At the end the band announced that it was my first gig and I got a round of applause, afterwards a couple of people commented that my playing was good for a first gig.

Perhaps this story will help some of you realize the same thing I did.

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Re: Thinking about posing nude...
Reply #63 on: May 25, 2007, 09:57:18 PM
I've never performed anything on piano but I've played a couple of gigs on bass guitar where I had almost no previous experience with the material or the band, I was given a few chord sheets on the night but I'm not sure they were even entirely accurate, I just had to improvise along by ear really.  This was actually my first ever live gig.

At first I was pretty terrified, standing on an elevated stage with everyone watching you, but part way through the first song I realized something: "This is what I've put all this time into music for, there is nowhere in the world I'd rather be!".  As soon as I realized this I just started enjoying myself and my playing improved too, no more nervousness; just excitement.  At the end the band announced that it was my first gig and I got a round of applause, afterwards a couple of people commented that my playing was good for a first gig.

Perhaps this story will help some of you realize the same thing I did.

This is cool and very much what I sometimes (recently rather often) think it is about. :)
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