17 Nude Models And Artists Shared Their Wildest Stories From Figure Drawing Classes, And They're Drawer-Dropping. I Mean, Jaw-Dropping

I don't know about you, but I've always been curious about whether weird stuff ever goes down in art classes that involve nude modeling. So when Reddit user u/Candy26262 asked people to share their most awkward or unexpected story from a class, I was zoned in. Here are the 17 wildest ones:

1. "I walked out of the closet in my birthday suit and immediately recognized three people in the class. Wasn't expecting that. But after the first 10 seconds or so, they saw all there was to see, and I got over any awkwardness."

2. "Student, not a model. Mostly it was all pretty professional and a great experience... But there was one dude who took off his robe, looked all the girls in the eye, and got hard. The professor put a black cloth bag over his head, and we kept drawing him. He wasn't invited back."

—u/deleted

3. "Once, I was drawing a female model who was facing me in a standing pose on a small platform, maybe a foot off the ground. I was working on the face, and at the same moment I am studying her face, I just see this blank expression of lights out, nobody's home upstairs fall over her face, and a second later she just went smack face first into the floor. She had fainted, and it was pretty surreal seeing someone faint in real time who also happened to be nude. It was one of those things that happened really fast, but at the moment, it felt like slow motion. She came to right away, and we all took a break while she had some water and an ice pack. I think she was a little embarrassed."

— bcmachine

4. "When class started, I was getting ready to come out and 'get into position.' That’s when I saw my cousin sitting there ready to draw a random dude in all his glory. I came out, gave her a little wave and a shrug, and proceeded to let it all hang out. Let’s just say family gatherings have been a little awkward since then, but art is art, right?"

5. "The most awkward experience was when this one regular dude we had unfroze his pose, walked over to his bag, pulled out a Tupperware container of pasta salad, and started eating it. It was supposed to be a 20-minute pose, and this is, like, minute 3. The teacher asked him to get back in position, but he kept going back to the pasta salad every couple of minutes. Just standing there, eating. With his dick and balls hanging there. It was so weird. Pretty tame, I guess. But it’s always stuck with me."

— Sirnando138

6. "The biggest beating my ego ever got was nude modeling. I had a very good physique (surf club, firefighter), and I was confident of my manhood, so I gave it a shot. The class had been told to focus and exaggerate features. I got 14 drawings of me ranging from caveman to sexless to one that was just all the muscles and no face or limbs, like a Lovecraftian horror. I was super embarrassed and apologized to the teacher for being a poor student, and she said this was the most creative she had seen some people."

— CompletelyFlammable

7. "I once misheard the length of a pose and ended up holding my arms over my head for 15 minutes. That hurt."

8. "I was a student in a figure drawing class where our nude male model got an erection that rose so slowly that it was nearly halfway erect before I noticed it happening. It eventually very slowly got fully erect and then, just as slowly, flaccid. This was, of course, during our long pose, so he didn't even get a chance to reposition himself. I imagine others noticed, but I can't say for sure, and I personally felt some secondhand awkwardness. I'm going to add this potentially unnecessary detail, but during the moments it was fully erect, I did notice one drop of precum. At that point I felt bad for the guy who apparently was fighting something within himself to try to turn his brain off or something to bring it back down."

— Haiku_lass

9. "There's one guy at the place I model who always likes to come up to the model after and show them his drawings. I was told he is weird, but harmless. The second time I modeled there, he came up to me, stuck his phone in my face, and took a selfie with me. Kinda weird, but it got weirder. The next day I got a friend request from the guy with his PROFILE PICTURE set as the selfie he took. He had also tagged me in about 10 unrelated posts. Creepy AF."

— HentaiGal

10. "I was the student in this case, but one time the model fell asleep during a pose, and no one had the nerve to wake him up."

11. "Actually had a student in the class who was evidently new to the course/country (foreign guy) who apparently saw me shiver whilst lying there naked and proceeded to stand up, take his shirt off, and walk out to offer it to me. Nice move. I don’t think he completely understood the class or what I was doing, but hey, he served us with some great entertainment, and he had a good laugh about it, too, once he realized why I wouldn’t take his shirt!"

— thebigkahoona5

12. "My boyfriend's ex turned out to be one of the models, which was a bit awkward."

— snortgiggles

13. "I remember there was one class where I was modeling, and one student was asking the teacher for help drawing the cellulite. He then did a little demonstration on the board to show the other students."

14. "My boyfriend (at the time) came to draw me and decided that after the halftime break, he would make a better model. He confirmed with the organizer that ran the classes and had me swapped out after intermission so his narcissistic ass could be drawn by a dozen of my regular artists. I only ever modeled there two more times. It was awkward after that."

— pumpa_nickle35

15. "One class the instructor was watching the timer and announced when the model was to move to a new pose. I guess he got distracted, and the model was holding a pose for longer than expected. Instead of just being like, 'Hey, I think it’s been a while,' he just threw down the pole or whatever shit he was holding, threw a robe on, and stormed out. We were all like, WTF. The instructor had to go talk to him and convince him to come back."

— AdamWPG

16. "I took my robe off, and a guy sighed loudly and said, 'Great,' in a super huffy, petulant tone."

17. And finally, "This kinda counts. I was hired to play classical guitar as a figure model for an art class. I was paid, I think, $35, and I got to keep all the drawings. One girl handed me hers, and it was me playing guitar without pants, and she gave me a huge dong that curled around my feet. I kept it for years...then it was ruined in a move."

— catfarts99

Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.