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Saturday 6 February 2021

The Art of Luxuris - 3

Luxuris - DJ Noah
 
Luxuris' more serious portraiture art has a different, sharper style. He has a knack for capturing the attractive features of a man and translating them into a stylish image that flatters the subject. Here suggesting a powerful, dominant presence that reflects the heroic role a DJ enjoys on the dance floor.

Luxuris - Francisco Manent

Fran Manent depicted as powerful too, but mysteriously alluring like a male siren. The sharper muscle definition has slightly hardening and 'distancing' effect. This is a man with a strikingly sensual and sexual aura in real life but it's sacrificed here to produce neatness and heroic solidity. Nice green highlights suggest hidden 'powers' of a more supernatural kind. These images show similarities to the fan art of Silverjow.

 

Luxuris - David Zongoli

This image is more simply sketched and the absence of fine definition (in the thighs, for example) creates a more striking sense of bulk, but it's bulk with a softness that is sensual even though the shading and highlighting is so subtle you hardly notice it. This pose is quite different to the heroic man above, it has an inherent modesty that plays against the implied strength of the subject to create a thoroughly charming, 'gentle giant' image.


Luxuris - Sexy Boy

This image is inspired by the well known image of Lawrence Dellaglio, the England rugby player, changing his shorts on the pitch during a match. Dellaglio is a chunky beast and Luxuris slims his waist for Sexy Boy, producing an image with a different sort of more youthful appeal, take your pick! He sensibly keeps the glimpsed underwear almost identical to the original spectacle.

 

Luxuris - Tsumugu Kinagase

There are echoes of Sexy Boy in this image of a fictional character but the original, unconscious display of Dellaglio has progressively evolved into more self awareness coupled with a simmering threat that would daunt most admirers! Dark trunks obscure the details of a backside but that gives it a bulk in exactly the same way as David Zongoli's thighs above. It conveys a sense of modesty too but in this case it's not so much charming as tantalising and challenging.  There's a naked sequel at the links below.


Luxuris - Warrior Dai Grepher

We're back with games characters here and that gives Luxuris scope to devise imaginative costuming that is intended to do the exact opposite of of Kinagase's black trunks by drawing attention to every curve and every nook and cranny of Dai's posterior. The lace-up back and sides add an (probably illusory) sense of accessibility but it doesn't look as if you'll encounter much resistance anyway. This is the least undressed of a sequence of variants with an M.O. (messy outcome).


Luxuris - Tribute to Iceman Blue

Another image that depicts a muscular giant as a cute young man by drawing on the 'baby on a rug' routine (but with more adult body emissions). The ragged clothing suggests a boisterous coupling has led to this contented state. The simple rendering of body hair is rather nice.
 

Luxuris - Sailor Saluting


This picture is fairly heavy on iconography, somewhat confusingly. At first sight, the sailor's cap and portholes set a nautical scene for this blue-eyed boy which seems to link him back to the heyday of sexy sailor images in the post-WW2 era. The same might be said of the tattoos, I see there are traditional anchors and roses amongst them, but rather more than most old-time sailors had. Moreover the shoulder tattoo in the Japanese style has gangland associations and the scarf round his neck prompts thoughts of piracy rather than regular naval organisations. In fact there seems to be an element of mockery in the salute and frivolity too in the tiny cap with it's Pop-Eye anchor badge, which certainly connects to the dense musculature of course. I can't decide if I like this or not!
  

Luxuris - Tattoo Boy

I don't harbour(!) the same doubts about this simple image of a swimmer. The trunks do it for me every time and there's not a trace of edge in the 'come on'. The tribal tattoo on his shoulder might have intimidated in olden times but it's an everyday sight now. Visually it has the effect of pulling the shoulder forward here and creates a slightly 'hunched' posture which is more defensive than aggressive. Likewise the tilt of his head, requesting rather than demanding our attention, is completely unchallenging. Seems like a nice boy. Too nice for a fetish blog perhaps. 

There's some interesting detailing in the background which has led to censored variants on some sites.
 

Luxuris - Wrestler in a Leotard

There's a censored version of this image too but I thought my readers could cope with the full blown version. It's a rather nice imagining of the leotard effect which used to be confined to the wrestling arena but now graces athletics tracks everywhere, usually less prominently than this! Luxuris doesn't leave much to the imagination here, painted-on you might say, the subtler hints of muscular contents in real leotards look even better to me.
 

Luxuris - Diego Groping

This muscular hook-up is immensely sexy and romantic too. In it's essence it's a regular sight in gay night-time venues but with the embellishment of undress and enhanced muscularity it makes a terrific image, full of erotic electricity and the participants seem to enjoy us watching. The romantic side of Luxuris is as enjoyable as his raunchy fantasies.

 
 
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