4 LIFE DRAWING EMPOWERMENT CLASSES
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Life Drawing as Permission
Weekly Online Class Reclaiming Permission to Look and to Ask for What You Want.
2-hour life drawing practice with a male model
This is not a traditional art class!
Starts 7 January 2026
7-9.00PM GMT/2-4.00PM ET
That’s completely welcome here. Most participants are not artists. The drawing is simply a permission slip—to look, stay present, and let your hands move. Your experience is what matters.
Sharing is always optional. You’re welcome to speak, use the chat, or simply listen.
How is safety and consent handled?
Consent is foundational. The space is clearly structured, agreements are explicit, and nothing is ever demanded or assumed. This is about learning how to honour boundaries—yours and others.
This is very unique environment where there is nakedness. The body is present. Desire may be present. But this is not a sexualised space. It’s an artistic and embodied exploration, held with care, maturity, and clarity.
Absolutely! Additionally you can email me with any concerns.
Why Life Drawing?
On my journey of drawing 100 Naked Men I discovered something powerful...
-the life drawing space offers a rare and powerful space—to look consciously, without apology or shame.
Historically, the naked female body has been drawn, studied, and consumed through the male gaze. When women become the ones who are looking—drawing, directing, asking—it quietly but profoundly shifts something.
In a clear, consensual, and well-held space, it becomes possible to:
- dismantle inherited shame around sexuality and desire
- explore curiosity without being acted upon or judged
- feel what it’s like to ask—for pace, for posture, for what you want
you don't need to know how to draw
Most people who express interest in this work with me are not artists.
The drawing is simply a doorway.
It gives your eyes something to do, and your hands somewhere to land—so your system can relax.
- You will not be judged, corrected, marked, or assessed
- The lines on the page are not the measure of success
- You have full permission to draw exactly as you draw
The drawing serves you, not the other way around.
drawing as an embodiment practice
I don't believe the drawings themselves are what creates transformation
When we draw, we take in information through the eyes and translate it through the hands. This allows us to bypass the busy mind and many of our limiting beliefs.
It becomes an embodied experience rather than a mental one.
You don’t need to “understand” anything.
You don’t need the right words.
This is what we call process based work. It’s not something you need to figure out with your mind. Engaging with the process of drawing, looking, and discovering what comes up for you is the practice.
This is a rare scenario in the world:
a group of women, with permission, looking at a naked man in a consensual, respectful, grounded art practice.
What Women Say...
“The whole ‘walking off a cliff and drawing a naked man’ thing became irrelevant after about twenty seconds.”
“I didn’t expect this, but the nakedness and vulnerability disappeared remarkably quickly.”
“What surprised me was how fast I became genuinely interested.”
“I’ve never done drawing before. At first I was frustrated… and then something shifted.”
“The focus became the joy.”
“It wasn’t the body I was focused on anymore—it was the act of focusing itself.”
“I realised I was putting my energy into something I haven’t done for 50 or 60 years.”
“That level of concentration was surprisingly tiring—in a really good way.”
“It reminded me what creativity actually is: giving your full attention to one thing.”
“At the beginning I was focused on: what is this thing in my hand and how do I even put it on the paper?”
“By the end, I was focused on light, shadow, and the beauty of curvature.”
“I went from stick figures to seeing something genuinely beautiful.”
“I like the atmosphere—it feels like you’re almost asleep, meditating, gone.”
“At first I wanted my body to be more ‘in proportion’… and then I realised what I really loved was the feeling.”
“You can see the mood in the body.”
“I went from doing something I wasn’t comfortable with to genuinely loving it.”
“This has been an absolute eye-opener.”
“When Michelle held the space for us to talk about what we were going through—our fears, what was happening for us—we went very deep, but beautifully so.”
“It felt safe, and we were able to talk honestly about what was coming up.”
About michelle
Michelle Dovey is an artist, No 1 international bestselling author, creator of the Naked Man Project and Naked Man Oracle. After her own liberating journey through shame, perfectionism and suppressed desire, she now facilitates spaces to help other women reclaim their aliveness, their wants, and their unapologetic joy. Through radical permission and creative expression, Michelle invites them to explore the taboos that bind them.