If I offer you inspiration and you would like more, please consider supporting my art via patreon: http://www.patreon.com/belenen You'll find I offer some amazing perks to patrons! You may use any of my photos for painting or drawing references with the following stipulations: 1) do not change my size or shape in any way; 2) do not apply any looksist, sizeist, ableist, racist, sexist, etc words to the artwork, title, or description; 3) give me (Belenen) credit for the original; and 4) email me a copy of the final product at belenen(at)gmaildotcom. You may use any of my photos in photomanipulations with the above stipulations IF you significa

Updated July 2013: You may use any of my photos for painting or drawing references with the following stipulations: 1) do not change my size or shape in any way; 2) do not apply any looksist, sizeist, ableist, racist, sexist, etc words to the artwork, title, or description; 3) give me (Belenen) credit for the original; and 4) email me a copy of the final product at belenen(at)gmaildotcom. You may use any of my photos in photomanipulations with the above stipulations IF you significantly change the photo.  Minor alterations do not make it a new piece of art, and they're disrespectful.  Examples of appropriate reference use with appropriate cre

...desecrating Media's altars since 2004. I want to experiment more with artistic nudity, both as a model and as a photographer, and I want to share the images here.  I want to develop my self-expression and I want to inspire others to love themselves as they are.  As the gorgeous Valerie Lefkowitz said, "You are far more beautiful just as you are, than you ever could be as you are not." I don't believe in 'body flaws.' To believe in them, you have to believe in one single ideal body, and I emphatically do not! I know what I am supposed to look like -- I'm supposed to look like me. And since no one can look more like me than me, I'm as clos