Life Drawing Model — Figure Model
Life Drawing & Figure Model
Working with artists, ateliers, and institutions across New York City, Philadelphia, and Trenton.
Working with artists, ateliers, and institutions across New York City, Philadelphia, and Trenton.
I work as a professional life drawing model and figure model for artists, ateliers, art schools, and independent drawing groups — the two terms most people use for the same practice, and I answer to either. Sessions run across New York City, Philadelphia, and Trenton, with travel available throughout the wider tri-state area for the right booking.
A single session can move across several pose types: long, sustained poses for artists working in oil or extended charcoal studies; short, gestural poses for warm-ups and movement studies; and quick croquis sequences for groups that want volume over a session. I've worked in charcoal, graphite, pastel, oil, and ink, and I understand how to hold a pose so it reads clearly from every seat in the room — weight, structure, and line, not just stillness.
My sessions have included university and institutional art programs as well as private ateliers and independent artist meetups, both domestically and abroad. Reliability matters as much as the pose itself: I show up prepared, hold time accurately, and take direction well from instructors running a structured class.
Available for individual artist sessions, group classes, workshops, and one-off studio bookings. Comfortable with long pose, short pose, and croquis formats, and open to instructor-directed themes or open sessions.
Format is flexible beyond the standard studio setup. I'm available for en plein air sessions in public places (clothed, not nude, given the setting), for private parties — including poolside nude sessions for the right private setting — and for virtual sessions over Zoom, Teams, or similar platforms for artists and groups who aren't local to the area.
Alongside sessions at ateliers, schools, and other venues, I also offer life drawing sessions at my home studio at Roebling Lofts in Trenton, NJ — a comfortable, private option for individual artists or small groups of friends who'd rather draw somewhere low-key than in a classroom setting.
Get in touch to check availability and talk through pose length, group size, and format.
I make my own self-portrait photographs available to artists at no cost, for use as reference material to draw or paint from. There's no fee and no licensing — the only thing I ask in return is a photo of the finished piece, which I'm free to use for my own creative purposes.
If you need something specific for a piece you're working on — a particular pose, angle, or expression — I may also be able to shoot new self-portrait reference to match, depending on availability. Get in touch to discuss what you need.
Feet are one of the hardest parts of the figure to draw convincingly, and one of the most commonly avoided. The bone structure is complex, the perspective shifts constantly with pose and viewing angle, and most artists simply don't get enough practice time with them in a typical life drawing session — they end up rushed, simplified, or hidden off-canvas.
I offer dedicated foot drawing sessions, working through a range of poses and angles specifically to give artists real practice time with this part of the figure — standing weight-bearing poses, seated and crossed positions, close three-quarter and sole views, and more. There's no reason to be shy about focusing a whole session on feet; I've run these before and artists who attended found it genuinely useful, several telling me it was the first time they'd actually gotten comfortable drawing feet from multiple perspectives in one sitting.
Get in touch if you'd like to arrange a session, either as a standalone focus or worked into a broader life drawing booking.
A broader collection of my self-portrait photography — including further reference material artists are welcome to work from, under the same terms described above — is available on Model Society.