Announcements
New Model MikaM
A customer wrote to us about a woman he works with as an artist's model and requested
that we hire her for the Art Models project. She happened to be traveling to the greater
Boston, MA, USA area and was willing to work with us. Happily, she was just in time to help us
with some poses we needed for Art Models 7.
We try to answer customer requests whenever we can so we were happy to do this shoot, and
Mika turned out to be a great model!
2/3/2012
New Male Models
By popular request, we have two new male models. Mark is a professional body builder who,
of course, has the 'heroic male' figure. Dave is an actor and brings intensity and emotion to his
posing. We did motion studies with both of them as well as a few of our rotational figure studies. More
of their work will be made available as we finish editing it, which will happen after we finish the next
book, Art Models 7 Dynamic Figures for the Visual Arts. Many of their poses that do not contain full rotations
are available for a reduced price. Hover over a pose thumbnail in the
Pose Tool to see the price.
1/23/2012
Beginning Motion Studies
We are beginning to experiment with stop-motion photography. Our first set was shot with our standard
studio equipment. We used fixed lights that required a high ISO setting (resulting in a grainy picture),
a low Aperture setting (resulting in out of focus pictures when Ana moved toward or away from the camera),
and a relatively slow shutter speed (resulting in blurring when the motion was too fast). Despite these problems,
we thought some people might be interested in the results so they are available in the session downloads area.
This first attempt contains about 200 photos of Ana going through several quick motions like jumping and falling.
After this session, we immediately bought a faster flash that significantly reduced all of the problems
for our next session, with Lola.
11/28/2011
Every Model in One Place
We have added a
page showing every model in the Art Models project. If you want a
quick overview of all the different models who are available, the
Model's page could
be a good place to look.
11/17/2011
New Model AnaIv
Ana has a background in theater, gymnastics, and dance as well as other performance arts. She is
helping us with poses based on dance, motion, and drama. Her first session featured mostly poses
based on dance movements that could be held for a rotation. We also spent some time practicing
photographing rapid motion such as leaping and spinning. Future sessions will include Ana in
motion photograhed front, back, and side. This is in preparation for book 7, which is being discussed
in the forum.
See Ana on the
Poses Page.
11/08/2011
New Sessions Available for Vaunt
Both halves of the Vaunt session are now available for download.
11/04/2011
New Model Eva
At just 5 feet 1 inch tall (155cm) and 100lbs (45.36 kg), Eva is a very petite model but still has well-defined muscles.
We mostly used side and spot light for her poses. Her ethnic background is strongly Italian.
It is common for women to wear
heels and heels significantly change the posture and form of the body. Because of this, we frequently shoot
several poses with the model wearing heels (it's not an attempt to make the model look sexy). The effect on
Eva is particularly dramatic
compare
evae001
to
evae014
.
More of Eva on the
Poses Page.
9/28/2011
New Model Vaunt
Vaunt has a classic pin-up style figure with broad rib cage and hips and a narrow waist. She also has
strong, classic, and beautiful facial features. We accentuated all of these with a strong side light.
Vaunt worked collaboratively with us on the pose selection.
Poses Page.
8/29/2011
New Model Sarahann
This has been a busy summer for new models. While we continue to look for local male models under the age
of 35, the traveling models who come to our area continue to be the more typical young and beautiful
women. SarahAnn is certainly no exception. She is a New York fashion model, with the dramatic
look and posing of a fashion model. Many of Sarahann's poses were designed by her.
Poses Page.
8/16/2011
New Model VNixie
Vnixie adds an interesting body type to our catalog, super thin but still having
a very curvy figure (5'7", 100lbs, 32"C/23"/35") is really unusual. Even though people have been asking for more everyday
activities, Vnixie's flexibility and expressiveness led us to poses that tended to the artsy and abstract.
Poses Page.
7/21/2011
Eliot Poses finished
All of Eliot's poses are now finished and available in the
pose tool.
7/15/2011
Artists
See some of the artwork
people have created using our art models as a reference.
This is an experimental feature that's still in testing and development. If you have
any suggestions for it, please
let us know.
7/5/2011
New Model Nedah
People have been asking for more variety in body types and ethnicity. Nedah adds
a tall, thin, female African American to our catalog.
Her poses are available now in the
Poses Page.
6/15/2011
New Sets by Jenni/Misha
The duo poses by Jenni and Misha have actually been finished for some time, but we
overlooked uploading them. Apologies for that! All their poses are now available in the
Pose Tool page and as a session in the
Session Downloads page.
New Sets by Ginger
We recently completed Ginger's entire first session and her poses are now available in the
Pose Tool page and as sessions in the
Session Downloads page.
New Sets by Jenni
People have been asking for more "natural" poses. We took the opportunity of having Jenni here to photograph
a model doing fairly natural things. We started by bringing in a prop we've
never used before, a bed, and asked her to do some things she might normally do in bed. She did different
sleeping postures, moved on to taking her night clothes off, reading in bed, etcetera. We also put a few artsy poses in
there (we just can't seem to help ourselves). Later in the set she moved on to some sports related activities;
some pushing, pulling, moving poses and some more artistic poses. At the end, we finished with a completely
free form Expressions Session, in which Jenni did a creative and fabulous job!
You can see the poses as they are finished in the
Poses page.
