"There is much beauty in the form of the human body. The muscles, the back, the legs and for women the breasts. It's a challenge to capture that on canvas or in some form of art!!"

That's what I would be saying to girls if I was an artist, dirty bugger. He's living my dream.

Haha - sex sells.

  It's not always nude portraits artists go for. I heard a true story back in England about a woman who sat for portraits for classes of students in London and one day she went into class and the students were all in place in a semi-circle with a chair waiting for the model in the middle of the room. The lady undressed, sat on the chair, and then the teacher came over and told her, "I'm sorry, I think there's been a mistake, this isn't a nude portrait, we're painting the chair."

because if your naked, and he is paying it will be easier to get in your pants (you will not be wearing any). artists are creeps, perverts and pigs like the rest of us. but women usually fall for their bs (see hickey artist)

An artist (which I'm not) would answer that the challenge is to capture the skin tone and musculature, Leonardo DaVinci dismembered human cadavers to find out exactly where the muscles went and the correct shape. Apparently human nudes are considered the ultimate challenge to accurately capture on canvas as any 'idiot' can paint clothes.

However, if the artist isn't extraordinarily good the answers given above are probably the real reason.

someone was once asked what would it be added to a book to make it a bestseller, he answered " a girl on the cover and no cover on the girl"

The human hand is one of the hardest things to paint. The human form is beautiful if you have an open mind. People that we find attractive are actually very common looking. If you take 10 pictures of different people and superimpose them over each other and take all the common lines of the faces to make one face, you will have what we find to be a good looking person. It is a common face and we just are attracted to the familiarity of it. Someone with a really big nose isn't funny looking at all, they just have a big beautiful nose.

 Beside who wants to paint flowers forever, nothing like a nude to keep you focused.

They don't. Very few, in fact, would ever ask you what he did. Personally, I think this guy would just wants to see you without clothing, and is using his vocation as an "artist" to try and do so. His words, "to me artist's goal is showing the natural and real things especially naked women (emphasis added)" sounds like an excuse. There are all types of artists doing all type of art, including abstraction, impressionist, modern, and surreal, which, depending on style and temperament, have little to do with showing an accurate representation of real things as they actually appear to be.

Now, maybe he just likes to draw nude women, and there is nothing wrong with that. All artists have to learn by observation if they are going to draw the human body, and life drawing is one of the best (and hardest) ways to learn, but most artists don't have access to real people, and so learn the discipline from books. One reason for this is because the figure (male or female) should be drawn unclothe first in a drawing, and when the clothing (if any) is added, it "hangs" properly on the figure, the folds and creases looking natural. If one tries to draw a figure with the clothes on first, often the clothes will distort the look of the figure, so drawing a nude figure is the start of the process. Just about every artist I know does it this way.

To most artists, drawing a nude figure is no big deal. It's a body. Nothing more. An academic exercise, as it were. At that point, during the drawing session, the artist is concentrating on a completely different thing. The brain is in a different mode, as it were. I've participated in hundreds of life drawing classes, some of them with nude models, and there is nothing to it. However, I don't draw my friends nude. That would just be creepy.

As a side note, I don't ever draw or paint nudes for public consumption, mainly because that is not what my clientele is interested in, from me, and there really isn't that much money to be made from doing so.

However, never do something you don't feel comfortable with, and telling your artist friend as much sets the ground rules. Remember, there are many kinds of artists, just like people. Some are worth knowing, and some, well, are probably better left alone.

Maggie Stick to your values

you can have sexy pictures  without taking off your cloths

best regards

"He said to me artist's goal is showing the natural and real things especially naked women."

In other words, he just wants an an easy way to see women naked, and possibly sex.

Artists in a nutshell.