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How are you going to find a model? Is this for life drawing in the nude, or portrait drawing? Are you trying to form a class?.
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These were my plans; this way someone can give me advice on whether or not they are bad ideas based on experience.
As most of you know, I take pictures of mostly women that come into the tattoo shop. I usually take with me the drawing I'm working on, so getting someone to pose for pics is usually very easy. Sometimes they ask me. I plan to also ask if they would be interested in life modeling, I would pay them for this, $10-$15 an hour. Now they pose for an 8x10 print of the drawing. I would also only want to do this for color, and keep the drawings from pictures, or at least the majority from pictures.
I'm looking to do other things besides the portraits I'm doing now. I would like to do more figurative type work also. What I was thinking, was to do my work out of the model's home, as I'm not comfortable having a stranger in mine, and I thought it might make the model more comfortable. The lighting situation would'nt make a difference in my case, as I have no lighting setup in my house anyway. Low ceilings and no set space for my work have kept me from getting anything fancier than portable lights. I have four easels, the nice one in the attic, and three cheap ones; one in the dining room, one in the bedroom, and one in the basement. That's my studio.
I know many of the pros here, go to the client's location, so working somewhere else should'nt be a problem besides the inconvenience of draggin the equipment along. I would ask that someone else be there with them to further put them at ease. I would also take pictures so I can work on fabric and background at home, then go back and have them sit again for finishing touches.
I gave setting up a workshop some consideration, but I don't know many artists to begin with. I have two friends that I used to work with airbrushing, but altho they say it would be a great idea, I don't see them showing up or taking it seriously. And of course there are my time constraints. I have to try to get a model and a couple of people at my house Sunday mornings between 7-11am. I'm sure it's possible, just stressful.
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Perhaps you can work with the woman who organized the session you attended and together set up something that is more professionally run. I bet you'd benefit the most that way, and probably all the other artists would appreciate it too.
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The woman who set up the session is also a model, and she works in the same manner. I'm sure if I spoke to her and asked that it be run in a better manner, she'd oblige, but then I have to deal with the other "artists" who I really don't think care. They seem to be there because they have nothing else better to do. And that drives me nuts, not to mention that I already have a fear of crowds, which is why I feel like I'd work best one on one.
I'm going to make this work, the sooner the better. I know I'm restricting myself by not working in color and from life. I just have to try harder. Thanks for listening.