How to Be a Truly Great Artistic Model

While I am not young, perfect, or uberlean, I have made many photographers feel exuberant when working with me as a model. I have had one photographer after another tell me I am the best model he has ever worked with, often over a long career. I wasn’t born with natural charisma, being non photogenic and shy in younger years. I would like to share with you how you can be an artistic model too.

It isn’t my body’s shape. I do keep in shape by working out, yoga, walking, biking, dancing, and a lot of athletics under the sheets. It is a given that you should be as fit as possible, and eat healthy foods. But still, I myself have many flaws; and health issues have left their mark. Being able to avoid self-consciousness about my imperfections makes all the difference, however. I have a large bust, which at times can be useful, obviously particularly for men’s magazines, but as I do very little of that work, their size is almost irrelevant in many cases. Sometimes photographers are drawn to working with a large breasted woman. But traditionally, fine art photography models are not busty.

I do accentuate my hair color with natural henna, and I feel the red color has helped somewhat with getting attention by photographers, as it is an artistically fetching color. Anything you can do to make yourself stand out, with pizzazz and memorable feature accentuation can be helpful. Often, however, the photographs are black and white, or the artist is making clay figurines of me, and hair color is not what drew them to me.