I think my first nude in public experience might differ from a lot of people's as it was for a life drawing group. I've been going to life drawing classes for years as an artist and quite often I'd been asked if I would sit. Sometimes jokingly, sometimes seriously. Not because of my fantastic good looks, I must add - more because I do a lot of weightlifting and yoga which makes me interesting to draw I suppose.

I'd always refused or laughed it off, but one day last year I just thought, why not? The class was stuck for a model so I said I'd do it. I was terrified on the day. ;D The waiting in my robe before the class was the longest ten minutes of my life!

However, I dropped my robe and got on with it, and after ten minutes or so, it all seemed remarkably normal. Since then I've been recommended for other classes and become a regular at the class I started at, to the extent that sometimes I seem to be doing more modelling than drawing. I've started keeping a blog about it all, to help other artists and models find classes; http://cumbrialifeclasses.wordpress.com/
And also to show off a bit of work.