1) Show up - ON TIME$!
2) Communicate. We all get stuck in traffic once in awhile, call and alert someone if you are running late.
3) Be prepared to get on the model stand at the appointed time.
4) Listen to what the instructor wants from you.
5) Don't initiate conversations from the model stand. You can be friendly and answer questions if someone asks but don't become chatty.
6) It should go without saying but for the record - be clean. B.O. does not mix well with the other smells in the room.
7) Pay attention to the time on break. Be ready to start back at the allotted time - even if the artist are not.
8) Know your body and what it can do. Don't get into a pose you can't hold for the alloted time. Not sure how long you can hold a pose? Practice in front of a mirror. When I started, I set up a playlist of 20 minutes on my iPod and would get into a pose and hold it until the music stopped.
Hi Ed, its Laura. It is very interesting all that you describe. I would like to add as a female model that women are in particular very self critical of their own bodies.
ReplyDeleteRemember that it is precisely in the variety of shape, size, ethnicity, age, and unique features where the value of the variety is for artists. Is not who's got more muscle or is thinner or feminine or more beautiful, it is really the language of your body and the expression of your individuality.
At least for me is telling a story, of warriors and princesses, of innocence and the loss of it, of freedom defeat and victory, of peace and reflection and a thousand more tales that never happened..or perhaps they all did.
The pains of the aching muscles and feeling you are about to break the pose is a story of a battle in itself!
The bible for models!
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