No offense meant to them, but my figure drawing models are dogs!  

Molly, the hound mix on the right is a luscious dare I say full figured blond; what we might even call "Rubenesque".  Casey on the left is a sculpted Jack Russell Beagle mix (I call him a "Jack Regal"), and though he is getting along in the years he still dreams of finding and slaying a mastodon.   No luck yet.

These dogs are not only my traveling companions in life, going hiking and plein painting with me, but they also stand in as my daily figure drawing models.  The great artist and teacher Quang Ho says that throughout all the classes and workshops he's taught the number one problem plaguing art students is drawing.  And the number two problem...  also drawing.    I've been told the inscription over the entrance to the Louvre translates to "well drawn is well painted". 

If "success is a few simple disciplines practiced daily", then I should choose to spend time drawing each day so that I can become a better painter.  So I do. 

In the quiet time of each morning I get on the couch with my dogs, a cup of coffee beside me, and practice the very enjoyable daily discipline of drawing, including drawing my lovely napping dogs.