I don't really know how to tell you HOW to pose. I'll try. To begin, when you're the model, give them something interesting to draw - to me that means be assymmetrical in your poses. If you're doing one thing with the left leg (say, it's bent), do something different with the other (lay it down on the ground). Vary up your poses. If there's something you can lean on or hold on to (I sit on a table and sometimes I put a chair up to lean on it), then do so. Before going to the class, think about the positions you might do: sitting? Standing? Kneeling? Cross-legged? Knees/elbows bent? Look up art books and check out the poses the models are in - for example, you could try to mimic Rodin's The Thinker (more awkward than it looks).
Stretch before posing :P Staying in one position can be hard!
The nice thing about being an art model is that you don't have to be the typical eye-candy to pose =) Art embraces all forms!
Re: modeling
I don't really know how to tell you HOW to pose. I'll try. To begin, when you're the model, give them something interesting to draw - to me that means be assymmetrical in your poses. If you're doing one thing with the left leg (say, it's bent), do something different with the other (lay it down on the ground). Vary up your poses. If there's something you can lean on or hold on to (I sit on a table and sometimes I put a chair up to lean on it), then do so. Before going to the class, think about the positions you might do: sitting? Standing? Kneeling? Cross-legged? Knees/elbows bent? Look up art books and check out the poses the models are in - for example, you could try to mimic Rodin's The Thinker (more awkward than it looks).
Stretch before posing :P Staying in one position can be hard!
The nice thing about being an art model is that you don't have to be the typical eye-candy to pose =) Art embraces all forms!