MystcPizza

I would love to hear OPs thoughts on this as well, from my experience holding a position for longer than 3 minutes is not only taxing on the body, but it's a mental practice as well. Especially if the position requires standing or some form of balance on the models part. The best way I could describe it is meditating during a thunderstorm. There are millions of distractions but all you can think about is "don't move, don't move, don't move."

Edit: Example: for a 10 minute or longer pose, never take a squatting position. Oh the muscle ache

Having done nude artist modeling as well I'm sometimes surprised by what people can come up with in even 30 second to 3 minute poses. That's a short amount of time to apply everything they see onto a piece of paper. I once had a student draw me as if I were a Ken doll (from the Barbie Franchise) and I thought it was absolutely fascinating that that is where his mind went. Have you ever had any drawings of you that really stood out as impressive due to an artist's interpretation and not simply a recreation of your pose?