WARNING!
I've collected these resources not because I'm a great expert on any of these subjects but because I wasn't able to find a single place where all these topics were covered. So treat them with them caution, please! I'm not a professional fashion photographer, but I do shoot with some professional models and I've coached and shot people into agency interviews.
Genres of modelling
I'm going to use these terms repeatedly so I'll get out of the way
- Fashion/high fashion = Vogue editorials and major cat walk events. To be one you need to be tall and thin, have a striking look, and to get recruited in your teens or very early twenties
- Commercial/lifestyle/print = Lands End catalogues. A more attractive version of normal. It helps to be tall, but the rules can bend more than for fashion
- Glamour = Playboy/Penthose/Suicide girls.
Internet modelling forums
There are several Internet forums that match models with photographers. You won't get work shooting for magazines and big - or even small - brands that way. That work goes through agencies.
Most of the paid work on these forums is posing in your underwear (or less) for amateurs of varying talent levels. But there are exceptions. There are some professional fashion models and photographers there, and some talented fashion amateurs on both sides of the camera. And some of the lingerie, glamour and art nude models who work on these forums are very skilled indeed and might have been big names in fashion if they'd been a little taller. (Get used to height being a big concern if you want to be a model..)
All the same, don't think that these forums are a good way of becoming a Victoria's Secret model or the new face of Estee Lauder. Or even of shooting a mail order catalogue (if they still exist.) They're not. Once again, to get that work you need an agency.
Security is such an important issue if you are using these sites that it has a section of its own. Read it! Do not, not, NOT skimp on security because you are new - this is the time when abusers are most likely to target you.
This is the best (and funniest) guide to Internet modelling:
http://modelbitch.blogspot.co.uk/
Why you should be selective who you shoot with if you're portfolio building
http://www.fadedindustry.com/10-photoshoots-to-avoid-on-model-mayhem/
How to use these sites if you are a would-be agency fashion or commercial model
There are a minority of talented people on these sites you can use to practice with if you are trying to get signed by an agency. You almost certainly won't get any money for these shoots - they will be "trade". You will get images, but you don't need lots of images to apply to an agency, if that's your goal - just one set of polaroids. You will get practice and feedback. The feedback is potentially the most valuable part and why you need to be selective. Look for photographers whose shots consistently show good posing rather than just good lighting and post processing; hopefully they'll be good model directors and you can learn from that direction.
Ask for contact sheets showing every image in the shoot in miniature as part of the deal for the shoot - they're a terrific tool for reviewing your posing.
Do NOT shoot anything other than fashion if you hope to get signed by an agency for fashion or commercial work. Sexualised images or art nudes may stop them from signing you. It's possible for a photographer to make a fashion lingerie or swimsuit shoot look like glamour by giving you the wrong posing direction or using the wrong camera angle, so be careful who you do these shoots with. Or avoid doing them at all, at least until you have the experience to know when this is happening.
How to use these sites if you are a would-be glamour or art nude model
Charge for every shoot you do except the occasional super-photographer you approach yourself for portfolio shots. Do NOT believe the people who tell you that you need a large and varied portfolio and experience to get paid. Most of your clients wouldn't recognize good modelling if they saw it and many will pay a premium for shooting someone new. And definitely read this http://modelbitch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/guest-post-by-tansy-blue-being-fresh.html and even more definitely this http://www.iainthomson.com/getting-naked-on-the-internet Understand that anything you shoot will be on the Internet for the rest of your life where employers, spouses, children etc can find it.
Most of the paid work on these forums is posing in your underwear (or less) for amateurs of varying talent levels. But there are exceptions. There are some professional fashion models and photographers there, and some talented fashion amateurs on both sides of the camera. And some of the lingerie, glamour and art nude models who work on these forums are very skilled indeed and might have been big names in fashion if they'd been a little taller. (Get used to height being a big concern if you want to be a model..)
All the same, don't think that these forums are a good way of becoming a Victoria's Secret model or the new face of Estee Lauder. Or even of shooting a mail order catalogue (if they still exist.) They're not. Once again, to get that work you need an agency.
Security is such an important issue if you are using these sites that it has a section of its own. Read it! Do not, not, NOT skimp on security because you are new - this is the time when abusers are most likely to target you.
This is the best (and funniest) guide to Internet modelling:
http://modelbitch.blogspot.co.uk/
Why you should be selective who you shoot with if you're portfolio building
http://www.fadedindustry.com/10-photoshoots-to-avoid-on-model-mayhem/
How to use these sites if you are a would-be agency fashion or commercial model
There are a minority of talented people on these sites you can use to practice with if you are trying to get signed by an agency. You almost certainly won't get any money for these shoots - they will be "trade". You will get images, but you don't need lots of images to apply to an agency, if that's your goal - just one set of polaroids. You will get practice and feedback. The feedback is potentially the most valuable part and why you need to be selective. Look for photographers whose shots consistently show good posing rather than just good lighting and post processing; hopefully they'll be good model directors and you can learn from that direction.
Ask for contact sheets showing every image in the shoot in miniature as part of the deal for the shoot - they're a terrific tool for reviewing your posing.
Do NOT shoot anything other than fashion if you hope to get signed by an agency for fashion or commercial work. Sexualised images or art nudes may stop them from signing you. It's possible for a photographer to make a fashion lingerie or swimsuit shoot look like glamour by giving you the wrong posing direction or using the wrong camera angle, so be careful who you do these shoots with. Or avoid doing them at all, at least until you have the experience to know when this is happening.
How to use these sites if you are a would-be glamour or art nude model
Charge for every shoot you do except the occasional super-photographer you approach yourself for portfolio shots. Do NOT believe the people who tell you that you need a large and varied portfolio and experience to get paid. Most of your clients wouldn't recognize good modelling if they saw it and many will pay a premium for shooting someone new. And definitely read this http://modelbitch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/guest-post-by-tansy-blue-being-fresh.html and even more definitely this http://www.iainthomson.com/getting-naked-on-the-internet Understand that anything you shoot will be on the Internet for the rest of your life where employers, spouses, children etc can find it.
Security
This section is for models using Internet forums.
First of all, do NOT use your real name as a profile name! Why give potential stalkers a head start on finding out where you live?
Read
http://www.purestorm.com/forum/readThread.aspx?id=209563
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/A_Girl_s_Guide_to_Safe_Dating_Safety_Calls.html
... Some people suggest not shooting with a photographer who isn't willing for you to bring an escort, especially if you are shooting "trade". The idea is that you don't even have to take the escort to know that you're a little safer. There are legitimate reasons photographers sometimes refuse this - eg escorts have been known to steal equipment on studio shoots - but you don't have to shoot with everyone.
Whatever you do, do NOT reply on the public versions of references if a site has them. These are often very misleading for fear of retaliation, especially when a photographer is influential in an online community. And at least one site that has references disallows negative ones, which are exactly the ones you need to see. Mail models who have worked with them and ask for their real opinion privately.
Besides the possibility of sexual assault you also need to be concerned that a photographer may grope you, or have cameras planted in private areas like the room you use for changing or the bathroom, or try to pressure you into turning a fashion shoot into a nude one or an art nude shoot into hardcore pornography, or try to pressure into sex with or without the offer of money. So do your reference checks, have one or more safe calls set up, and have the ability to leave a shoot without the photographer's help.
First of all, do NOT use your real name as a profile name! Why give potential stalkers a head start on finding out where you live?
Read
http://www.purestorm.com/forum/readThread.aspx?id=209563
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/A_Girl_s_Guide_to_Safe_Dating_Safety_Calls.html
... Some people suggest not shooting with a photographer who isn't willing for you to bring an escort, especially if you are shooting "trade". The idea is that you don't even have to take the escort to know that you're a little safer. There are legitimate reasons photographers sometimes refuse this - eg escorts have been known to steal equipment on studio shoots - but you don't have to shoot with everyone.
Whatever you do, do NOT reply on the public versions of references if a site has them. These are often very misleading for fear of retaliation, especially when a photographer is influential in an online community. And at least one site that has references disallows negative ones, which are exactly the ones you need to see. Mail models who have worked with them and ask for their real opinion privately.
Besides the possibility of sexual assault you also need to be concerned that a photographer may grope you, or have cameras planted in private areas like the room you use for changing or the bathroom, or try to pressure you into turning a fashion shoot into a nude one or an art nude shoot into hardcore pornography, or try to pressure into sex with or without the offer of money. So do your reference checks, have one or more safe calls set up, and have the ability to leave a shoot without the photographer's help.
Scams, "semi-scams", portfolio shoots and "modelling platforms"
http://modelbitch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/ill-make-you-star-baby-thatll-be-800.html
https://helenafrithpowell.com/uncategorized/the-future-is-definitely-not-orange/comment-page-2
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3625360/They-told-going-Kendall-Jenner-Wannabe-models-tricked-paying-3-000-portfolios-rogue-agencies-promise-make-stars-leave-just-CD-pictures.html
You do NOT need a portfolio to get signed by an agency! Any company trying to sell you shots to use to approach a modeling agency should be avoided - the model agencies themselves say so! Eg
http://bossmodelmanagement.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/modelling-scams-dont-get-caught-out.html
Instead you need a set of simple shots called, for reasons of tradition, "polaroids". Here is how to take them:
http://www.crackedchinacup.com/2015/07/how-to-take-polaroids/
In the UK, I'd strongly advise avoiding any company calling itself a "Modelling platform". They're not model agencies and can't get you work; they're in the business of selling portfolio shoots - usually at ridiculously high prices, often of very poor quality, and very often using high pressure sales tactics. You have nothing to gain by going anywhere near one - so don't! These people are experts in using pressure selling to get you pay huge amounts for often very bad photographs - one model I shot with had paid £1400 for a set which had literally no usable images. If you have dealt with one of thse companies and have been pressure sold or misled in any way or the images are poor - they're usually terrible - email the company with your complaint asking for a refund immediately and contact Citizens Advice and Trading Standards or your local equivalent. Make it clear that if you don't get a refund you will take them to Small Claims Court and do so. It's not hard, and most people have an open and shut case; typical "clients" of these companies pay hundreds of pounds for shoots that reasonably speaking are worthless - images are usually appalling - and the court should make the company refund the excess.
https://helenafrithpowell.com/uncategorized/the-future-is-definitely-not-orange/comment-page-2
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3625360/They-told-going-Kendall-Jenner-Wannabe-models-tricked-paying-3-000-portfolios-rogue-agencies-promise-make-stars-leave-just-CD-pictures.html
You do NOT need a portfolio to get signed by an agency! Any company trying to sell you shots to use to approach a modeling agency should be avoided - the model agencies themselves say so! Eg
http://bossmodelmanagement.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/modelling-scams-dont-get-caught-out.html
Instead you need a set of simple shots called, for reasons of tradition, "polaroids". Here is how to take them:
http://www.crackedchinacup.com/2015/07/how-to-take-polaroids/
In the UK, I'd strongly advise avoiding any company calling itself a "Modelling platform". They're not model agencies and can't get you work; they're in the business of selling portfolio shoots - usually at ridiculously high prices, often of very poor quality, and very often using high pressure sales tactics. You have nothing to gain by going anywhere near one - so don't! These people are experts in using pressure selling to get you pay huge amounts for often very bad photographs - one model I shot with had paid £1400 for a set which had literally no usable images. If you have dealt with one of thse companies and have been pressure sold or misled in any way or the images are poor - they're usually terrible - email the company with your complaint asking for a refund immediately and contact Citizens Advice and Trading Standards or your local equivalent. Make it clear that if you don't get a refund you will take them to Small Claims Court and do so. It's not hard, and most people have an open and shut case; typical "clients" of these companies pay hundreds of pounds for shoots that reasonably speaking are worthless - images are usually appalling - and the court should make the company refund the excess.
Posing
Modelling is hard, skilled work and takes education and practice. In general the "How to model" classes you can pay for are worthless, but you should educate yourself and the practice at home. Possibly the best way to practice posing is to start with a mirror for immediate feedback and then, when you think you have the pose down, replace it with a camera or phone set to video mode or for repeated shots. Don't practise with the mirror only, because that way you'll end up being unable to pose without one.
If you're even moderately serious about modelling then you should have a variety of poses you can just snap into without coaching from the photographer. These should cover standing and sitting - and possibly lying down, depending on the genre you shoot. (I only shoot fashion and portrait, but I have a shrewd idea that lying down is a big thing in glamour and boudoir photography.) Say at least seven poses for each. for an amateur; a LOT more for a professional You should also practice a decent range of facial expressions and be able to vary a pose. (There are links for these things below.) Your poses should be appropriate for the genre you're shooting - high fashion poses will look insane if you're shooting commerical (think Vogue vs Lands End.)
Before practicing poses you need to understand what the issues are (eye alignment and hand position and orientation are big things) so read a good selection of the articles below.
Dear Model
This is a good introduction to posing
http://petapixel.com/2013/05/24/dear-model-posing-tips-for-how-to-look-your-best-in-photographs/
Squniching
You should start with your face. This is the squinch - great for charismatic eyes
https://drkotlus.com/squinch/
http://static1.refinery29.com/bin/entry/9b3/x,80/1128527/squinch-bod.jpg
It's All About The Jaw
Make your face more defined with this simple posing trick :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe3oJnFtA_k
Another trick for the face
http://www.marieclaire.com/beauty/news/a16150/fish-gape-pose-trend/
The rest of your body and some starter poses
http://www.myphotocentral.com/articles/10-tips-better-model-poses/
http://blush-berry.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/how-to-pose-like-model-full-length.html
http://blush-berry.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/how-to-pose-like-model-dress.html
How to vary a pose
http://aminoapps.com/page/cosplay/3722756/posing-for-cosplay-part-3
The Suicide Girls guide to posing. Obviously glamour oriented, but has some good general advice
https://gmail123456.app.box.com/s/ncjpkccitx2d9tr8dt2c
Last, but certainly not least, Jill Billingley's youtube channel has excellent videos on posing, expressions and some modelling business issues:
https://www.youtube.com/user/annjulius
If you're even moderately serious about modelling then you should have a variety of poses you can just snap into without coaching from the photographer. These should cover standing and sitting - and possibly lying down, depending on the genre you shoot. (I only shoot fashion and portrait, but I have a shrewd idea that lying down is a big thing in glamour and boudoir photography.) Say at least seven poses for each. for an amateur; a LOT more for a professional You should also practice a decent range of facial expressions and be able to vary a pose. (There are links for these things below.) Your poses should be appropriate for the genre you're shooting - high fashion poses will look insane if you're shooting commerical (think Vogue vs Lands End.)
Before practicing poses you need to understand what the issues are (eye alignment and hand position and orientation are big things) so read a good selection of the articles below.
Dear Model
This is a good introduction to posing
http://petapixel.com/2013/05/24/dear-model-posing-tips-for-how-to-look-your-best-in-photographs/
Squniching
You should start with your face. This is the squinch - great for charismatic eyes
https://drkotlus.com/squinch/
http://static1.refinery29.com/bin/entry/9b3/x,80/1128527/squinch-bod.jpg
It's All About The Jaw
Make your face more defined with this simple posing trick :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe3oJnFtA_k
Another trick for the face
http://www.marieclaire.com/beauty/news/a16150/fish-gape-pose-trend/
The rest of your body and some starter poses
http://www.myphotocentral.com/articles/10-tips-better-model-poses/
http://blush-berry.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/how-to-pose-like-model-full-length.html
http://blush-berry.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/how-to-pose-like-model-dress.html
How to vary a pose
http://aminoapps.com/page/cosplay/3722756/posing-for-cosplay-part-3
The Suicide Girls guide to posing. Obviously glamour oriented, but has some good general advice
https://gmail123456.app.box.com/s/ncjpkccitx2d9tr8dt2c
Last, but certainly not least, Jill Billingley's youtube channel has excellent videos on posing, expressions and some modelling business issues:
https://www.youtube.com/user/annjulius
Agencies
You do NOT need a portfolio to get signed by an agency! You need a set of simple shots called, for reasons of tradition "polaroids". Here is how to take them:
http://www.crackedchinacup.com/2015/07/how-to-take-polaroids/
...You probably do want to practice posing and making eye contact before shooting your polaroids and a good photographer can help here. You don't want to use artificial looking high fashion poses, even if that is the type of work you are after, but you do want to "pop" for the camera.
There are a LOT of scams connected with model agencies. In general avoiding them is easy if you follow two basic rules. The first is that they way to get signed by agency is to send your polaroids directly to them using the form on their website. The second is that as a model the agency gives you money and not vice versa - if an "agency" wants you to give them money to be a model - eg for improbably expensive Internet portfolio hosting - tell them no. Some agencies do combine this sort of thing with finding a minority of their models legitimate work. But even if you're willing to settle for one of these agencies, if you are one of the models they are serious about then they'll make an exception for you - not doing so would be cutting their own throats.
Be warned: you probably won't get signed by an agency. They're flooded with applications and incredibly selective. But giving your money to a scammer won't help. There's a good guide to the types of modelling work and how likely you are to get them, based on your look, here:
http://modelbitch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/what-kind-of-modeling-should-i-do.html
...The bad news is that if you want to be a high fashion model and you're not at least 5'9'' (if you're a woman) slim and in your late teens or very early 20s, then you're better off hoping to an astronaut. The modelling industry is in a phase of being *very* restrictive indeed about "stats" - it's often said that Kate Moss, probably the most popular pick for the greatest model of all time, couldn't get signed by an agency today. You might get signed for "commercial" or fitness work while being shorter though - which means you'll shoot ads but not editorials for the top fashion magazines, and you won't walk the cat walk in a major fashion event.
For male models: you should be between 6 and 6'2 with a 38-42 chest. These stats are partly so you'll look right with female models and partly so sample clothes will fit. They can be varied for the youth market, fitness, and for lesser markets.
A realistic view of trying to make it as an agency model
1. Modelling is a job that requires skills, hard work and a range of talents. The very best models combine an actor's skill in portraying emotion with an athlete's dedication to their body and a photographer's eye for the picture - they can see compositions for the picture's they are in and shape their bodies to make them work.
2. If you try to make it as a model, you'll be up against a whole new standard of attractiveness. It's both different and tougher than the one you met in everyday life. If you're the girl that everyone wanted to go out with in highschool, that makes you the best looking in your age group for the school - that's, say, 1 in 200. Getting into a good agency for high fashion requires being at (these figures are not scientific) being at the 1 in 1000 level. And being 5'10. And having whatever look is in that year - which might mean the skinny tall girl everyone thought looked odd makes it and you don't.
3. Getting signed by an agency does not guarantee wealth and fame. To get those you need to do a lot of work, have talent for posing, and be very, very lucky. You'll probably have to live in tight economic circumstances for several years - and even with these investments, you probably won't be one of the few to get lucky and make it big.
...If you've always been the most attractive person in your social group, it's very easy to assume that success as a model will be easy. It won't. It probably won't even be possible. People who aren't realistic about this can end up being exploited in very nasty ways. Don't be one of them!
Instead, do be realistic about whether you can do the type of modelling you are interested in. Vet the agencies you approach and any photographers you work with. Work hard at your posing and listen to what agencies have to say - and know when to move on with your life. Do not, above all else, fix on modeling as a way of justifying yourself as a person or solving all your other problems.
Once you are signed by an agency
How you are treated will depend on whether you are a high fashion or commercial model and, in general, the size of the agency you are with. A high fashion model will get the most support because her career has to launch fast or not at all. Regardless, as a new model you will have to learn how to pose and put together a portfolio. This can be done through trade or through paying photographers for shoots. Hopefully if you are paying for shoots the agency will be putting out the cash. Don't feel guility - they will be doing it in the hope of getting it back from your earnings later. If an agency wants you to spend your cold hard cash with photographers and they're telling you which photographers, then there is at least a possibility that the agency is getting some of that cash back, and that might be the real reason for the shoot. Obviously you should consider an agency's overall reputation if you suspect they are pulling this sort of trick.
http://www.crackedchinacup.com/2015/07/how-to-take-polaroids/
...You probably do want to practice posing and making eye contact before shooting your polaroids and a good photographer can help here. You don't want to use artificial looking high fashion poses, even if that is the type of work you are after, but you do want to "pop" for the camera.
There are a LOT of scams connected with model agencies. In general avoiding them is easy if you follow two basic rules. The first is that they way to get signed by agency is to send your polaroids directly to them using the form on their website. The second is that as a model the agency gives you money and not vice versa - if an "agency" wants you to give them money to be a model - eg for improbably expensive Internet portfolio hosting - tell them no. Some agencies do combine this sort of thing with finding a minority of their models legitimate work. But even if you're willing to settle for one of these agencies, if you are one of the models they are serious about then they'll make an exception for you - not doing so would be cutting their own throats.
Be warned: you probably won't get signed by an agency. They're flooded with applications and incredibly selective. But giving your money to a scammer won't help. There's a good guide to the types of modelling work and how likely you are to get them, based on your look, here:
http://modelbitch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/what-kind-of-modeling-should-i-do.html
...The bad news is that if you want to be a high fashion model and you're not at least 5'9'' (if you're a woman) slim and in your late teens or very early 20s, then you're better off hoping to an astronaut. The modelling industry is in a phase of being *very* restrictive indeed about "stats" - it's often said that Kate Moss, probably the most popular pick for the greatest model of all time, couldn't get signed by an agency today. You might get signed for "commercial" or fitness work while being shorter though - which means you'll shoot ads but not editorials for the top fashion magazines, and you won't walk the cat walk in a major fashion event.
For male models: you should be between 6 and 6'2 with a 38-42 chest. These stats are partly so you'll look right with female models and partly so sample clothes will fit. They can be varied for the youth market, fitness, and for lesser markets.
A realistic view of trying to make it as an agency model
1. Modelling is a job that requires skills, hard work and a range of talents. The very best models combine an actor's skill in portraying emotion with an athlete's dedication to their body and a photographer's eye for the picture - they can see compositions for the picture's they are in and shape their bodies to make them work.
2. If you try to make it as a model, you'll be up against a whole new standard of attractiveness. It's both different and tougher than the one you met in everyday life. If you're the girl that everyone wanted to go out with in highschool, that makes you the best looking in your age group for the school - that's, say, 1 in 200. Getting into a good agency for high fashion requires being at (these figures are not scientific) being at the 1 in 1000 level. And being 5'10. And having whatever look is in that year - which might mean the skinny tall girl everyone thought looked odd makes it and you don't.
3. Getting signed by an agency does not guarantee wealth and fame. To get those you need to do a lot of work, have talent for posing, and be very, very lucky. You'll probably have to live in tight economic circumstances for several years - and even with these investments, you probably won't be one of the few to get lucky and make it big.
...If you've always been the most attractive person in your social group, it's very easy to assume that success as a model will be easy. It won't. It probably won't even be possible. People who aren't realistic about this can end up being exploited in very nasty ways. Don't be one of them!
Instead, do be realistic about whether you can do the type of modelling you are interested in. Vet the agencies you approach and any photographers you work with. Work hard at your posing and listen to what agencies have to say - and know when to move on with your life. Do not, above all else, fix on modeling as a way of justifying yourself as a person or solving all your other problems.
Once you are signed by an agency
How you are treated will depend on whether you are a high fashion or commercial model and, in general, the size of the agency you are with. A high fashion model will get the most support because her career has to launch fast or not at all. Regardless, as a new model you will have to learn how to pose and put together a portfolio. This can be done through trade or through paying photographers for shoots. Hopefully if you are paying for shoots the agency will be putting out the cash. Don't feel guility - they will be doing it in the hope of getting it back from your earnings later. If an agency wants you to spend your cold hard cash with photographers and they're telling you which photographers, then there is at least a possibility that the agency is getting some of that cash back, and that might be the real reason for the shoot. Obviously you should consider an agency's overall reputation if you suspect they are pulling this sort of trick.
More sources of information
http://amodelsdiary.blogspot.co.uk
http://amodelsdiary-readerquestions.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.businessmodelmag.com/tbm-guides/2016/5/10/mistakes-aspiring-models
http://crackedchinacup.com/
https://kindustry.wordpress.com/
Rachel Jay's blog is very worth reading for itself and collects links to other model's blogs
https://racheljay.wordpress.com/more-modeling-blogs/
http://amodelsdiary-readerquestions.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.businessmodelmag.com/tbm-guides/2016/5/10/mistakes-aspiring-models
http://crackedchinacup.com/
https://kindustry.wordpress.com/
Rachel Jay's blog is very worth reading for itself and collects links to other model's blogs
https://racheljay.wordpress.com/more-modeling-blogs/