I don't want to tell my stories in any specific order, hence, why not starting from a recent one?
I have been modelling in London for 3 years now: life drawing sessions, corporate gigs, parties, birthdays, students, church groups, hen dos, you name it.
Last weekend I was working at a hen do. The venue was the usual first floor of a pub on a Saturday afternoon, a tutor to help with instructions and drinks, and a group of 20 ladies.
The bride was a young brunette named Charlotte, light blue eyes and a smile that could tell how happy she was to be getting closer to the due date.
The group was a mix of family and friends, a lot of family actually, she was there with her younger sister, two cousins, her mom and two aunts.
As usual for these events the group had a bottomless brunch before going to the drawing thing, it makes them feel lighter and ready for a naked guy. As they arrived they were already singing and in a mimosa-inducted state of joy. Tipsiness usually makes things easier and funnier, the group is less focused on drawing and more on having fun, and time goes faster for us. The basic idea is to collect a happy memory of a nice and blurred afternoon in a London pub, specially for those coming from different counties.
The session starts and the first 15 minutes pass with the usual difficulties of understanding the task while pretending that drawing a Picasso is the goal, tutors struggle to get attention, and short poses are mostly received with little drawing and a lot of shy gazing, giggles, and quiet whispers. Nobody wants to be caught looking at the obvious elephant in the room.
I am fairly used to it at this point, and take this time to understand the vibe of the room, receive comments with a smile, and answer the basic questions they have for me. It is fair to say that I am on the good looking side, I keep in lean shape and always bring a big smile to a session.
In this event there's always time for a first however, and this session was no exception. After two short one -minute poses we (me and the tutor) asked the group to show their drawings, and among the doodles one big message "good size for a limp dick!". I found it funny a perfectly captured the tone of the session coming up.