Completely agree. I used to teach life drawing, and one model had plastic surgery, no gravity—that made the students’ job harder to draw her figure in a natural life-like manner. The same issue happened with a male model with a too perfect gym-bod. I find the best models for idealist images to be dancers and athletes.
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Completely agree. I used to teach life drawing, and one model had plastic surgery, no gravity—that made the students’ job harder to draw her figure in a natural life-like manner. The same issue happened with a male model with a too perfect gym-bod. I find the best models for idealist images to be dancers and athletes.