[Artwork and models]

Thnank you for posting those links. But I am still a junior member and cannot access any of those pages except for the last.

[Hello everyone! :D]

Hello LDS forum

My name is Katie, and I have been a proud Mormon all my life. I am an aspiring novelist and commercial artist. I'm about to turn 20 in a few weeks and hope to double major in journalism and theology. (minor in art)

[Can I still go to church?]

Hi I am new to this site and this may seem like a silly question, but it is genuine. I am a 24 year old young woman and have been a member of the church my whole life. All through my youth I was an extremely active girl, president of all three young women's classes, graduated seminary with perfect attendance, etc. For the past couple of years however, i've been in a relationship where we do not keep the law of chastity. I still know the church is true, but when I am honest with myself I just don't want to live it right now. I will in the future but just not now. I KNOW that is absolutely terrible, but its at least honest. My question is...if I know that I am not trying to be clean, can I still go to church/read scriptures? I haven't in about 9 months because it just feels hypocritical. I know I can't take the sacrament, and I wouldn't, but I just want to go. I still feel the spirit from time to time, and I want to continue to learn...I just don't want to change that one part of my life. I follow everything else to a "T", just not that.

Would it be wrong to go to church and institute and study scriptures and even maybe pray?

I Know how you feel. There have been times in my own life when I have felt unworthy to attend church or even to kneel down a pray.

But the truth is, When you're having trouble with the commandments, it is the time when going to church is the most important.

Christ said " They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

People who are sick need to go the the doctor's to heal. Likewise, people who are struggling with sin or other problems need to go to church to heal.

No matter what you've done, The savior still loves you and wants you to return to him. He is always knocking. You have but to open the door.

good luck.

[Artwork and models]

I'm wondering, what is the church's policy on art and nude models?

A few days ago I came across a website that provided computer generated 3D models of people in various poses. The models did not have clothing, hair, or skin, and showed only the muscular structure of the model.

Genitalia was not visible, but on the female model, the nipples were implied. My first reaction was positive. I've been an artist for many years and often have trouble finding models for my work. I always draw my subjects clothed, but knowing what's going on underneath helps keep the picture anatomically correct.

Yet as I perused the site, I began to get a bad feeling. True, the model's were not sexually explicit, but the sheer bareness of them began to make me uneasy, and I quickly closed the site window.

Are muscle bare models considered pornographic? and is it bad to use them for artwork?

Until, I know for sure, I'm steering clear of this.

This is the site for those of you curious Posemaniacs.com