Five minutes into my second pose, the universe begins to melt away. I feel connected with the Life Room, telepathically in touch with the artists assembled to draw, paint and sculpt me. Earlier we had ...

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, ...

Instructor Darren Kerr talks to Sabina Grogan about the proportions of the human face during a life drawing class at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening ...