'Royale Studio Revisited' by DaveAlan01

 

Royal Marine Stevens - by DaveAlan01

 This video is a sample of the AI Art produced by DaveAlan01. He's trying to visualise how Royale Studio images might have looked if they were produced now. This example has the right ingredients - British military uniforms contrasted with underwear in a disciplinary situation. I think Basil Clavering would have enjoyed the double underwear joke in this videoette. In his day it would have ridiculed the restrictions on depicting nudity rather incisively. In the modern context, it makes fun of our obsession with it.

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I'm not sure this video would have passed muster in the 60s, but there's an even funnier and sexier variant at the artist's site which definitely wouldn't! 

View Royale Marine Stevens - lubed underwear

 

Para Tom Taken To The Corrective Training Centre
by DaveAlan01

 Basil Clavering seemed to favour shorts rather than underwear as punishment kit. I don't know if that was simply because of his personal taste or the taboo on visible underwear in society as a whole, which was more aggressively conservative back them. 

 

He attempted to make sexy, tight shorts out of the baggy, non-elasticated products which were the only thing available at the time. His efforts generally resulted in something like the image above, with an impression of bulk at the front, but a much tighter fit at the rear. He used clever lighting to hint at frontal shapes, but they had to be very subtle to escape censure. 

 

Unfortunately modern AI seems to be incapable of producing anything sexier than this and thinks military = medals. It has no understanding of British uniforms. Nevertheless, the shortness of the escorts' shorts in the image above is a good simulation of Royale Studios' take on 'dress' kit, perhaps seen to best advantage in the Soldier-Sailor storyette.

 

Clavering did have a para on his roster - Ron Wiltshire, but he never photographed the model in his own uniform, only as a Horse Guard in breeches. I don't think there's a single example of a beret in his output, but exposure to modern day Royal Marines might have changed his mind!

 

 

Bad Lads Army,1961 - by DaveAlan01 

This disciplinary scenario (snipped from a video) fits the Royale style too, apart perhaps for the Guards wearing underwear. I think Clavering would have kept them in a uniform of some sorts. 

 

see the full videoette at Bad Lads Army,1961 by DaveAlan01.

 

 

Para Tom is handed over - by Dave Alan01

DaveAlan01 has also produced some police custody scenes. This is a scenario Clavering never covered, probably because it would have invited reprisals from the real force. In any case, the Police were so disliked by gay men in that era, because of the heavy-handed repression, that it was a perverse individual indeed that would find them sexually attractive. Clavering did do a storyette with Military Police which involved Tibor Urgay undressing in public.

 

I'm certain Clavering would have loathed jogging bottoms too, but the common association (in the UK) with the so-called underclass and thuggery would have certainly interested him. That connection makes this 'put in his place' image delicious indeed. 

 

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Great stuff! These video scenes make you wonder how Royale's work would have looked if they had used this medium. Would it have just looked like all the other modern porn? His amateur models would have struggled, I suspect. Especially if they had to speak! AI would have got him off that hook, but AI speech is very primitive currently, with caricatured American accents. Let's hope Brits get a look-in soon, but I'm not counting on it.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing a naval scenario in this vein, sailors were Claverings' inspiration and his bread and butter, after all.

 

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Holiday Tip 

Don't assume dress codes in foreign parts are as relaxed as in your home town.

Kyle knew he looked great and liked to show it off wherever he went. The invitation to join a yacht cruise in the Mediterranean with his girlfriend's rich parents was a great opportunity to wear his cute sailor outfit. He didn't know that the route would take them close to an island with a fearsome reputation for mobsters. Some of them reputedly involved in human trafficking of the sort that would land any handsome lad in the slave market, pronto.  

 

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Another Etienne, AI makeover

Etienne - Services Auction

 There's been quite a fashion, recently, for AI-artists doing makeovers of familiar, Etienne pictures. This is the latest that I have run across, and it's a little different. 

 

Stonecrooze - Services Auction makeover #1 (after Etienne)

 As expected, it breathes fresh life into the imagery, building on the military connection which is of more general interest these days than the (implied) leather club of Etienne's original. Stonecrooze has made the characters more mature and hunkier (I love the hairy legs). This is all great.

 

The jockstrap detail, which is the focus of the image, also benefits greatly from the increased realism. However, the fickle finger of the instructor(?) is no longer pointing at 'it' directly, instead, he seems to simply be delivering a more general reprimand. 

 

Of course there's a reason why Etienne drew him standing and pointing the way he did. It's ambiguous, a sort of not very well 'hidden eroticism'. That ambiguity puts the soldier's look of consternation into an entirely different light. He's not just facing a lot of pain at the hands of a succession of men. Now the auctioneer seems to be pointing out a very different threat, calling for a different brand of bravery. However, in the makeover, instead of looking bewildered, the soldier now looks stoic and resigned.

 

This adjustment of the pointing pose does correct some of the awkwardness in Etienne's original - have you noticed how his biker is hunching his soldiers to squeeze himself into the frame? Running out of space is a common problem for artists who draw with the heart (or crotch) more than the head, from left to right before thinking it out, overall. It irritated Falkon (Etienne's contemporary), but fans might find it charming.

 

The makeover is still a great image, if not entirely faithful to Etienne's original. However, Stonecrooze takes his makeover further, playing with the balance of the original composition by moving the auctioneer/instructor character around. 

 

 

Stonecrooze - Services Auction makeover #2 (after Etienne)

This variant creates addresses the imbalance caused by the isolated paddle post and creates a more natural relationship between the characters. The faces of the two characters are better as well, grittier.

 

 It ends up catering more for bottom fans than spankers, but I have to say that the revised jock is splendid, so no wonder Stonecrooze has brought it to the front.  The rearrangement has also circumvented the AI mistake in drawing the signage posts. 

There's also a variant of this image which shows the aftermath of the affair, but it's a bit too raw for me. You can see all 5 variants at Stonecrooze's Deviant Art site

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Spanking Art, Featured Artist

Mitchell's 'Working Late' makeover 

 

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More AI-Art by Club 323

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Show Me Your Wood by Club323

 This character is ridiculously handsome and over-muscled, but I love his dinky, denim cut-offs. He doesn't need the braces to keep them up, but they do add a certain 'je ne sais quoi'. Tom of Finland's woodsmen were nothing like this!

I've snapshotted this image from the artist's videoette

 

Please Officer, I'll do Anything by Club323

Another appearance by the cheeky, hunky, TOF-style sailor featured in Part 1 of this post. His face has a great look of "will he or won't he?" Hope and doubt in equal measure. There are a number of other images and sexy videoettes in this sailor series at the artist's site. His audio is very amusing (website link at foot of post).

 

One Way by Club323
 

There's a bit of a craze for animating the old masters with AI at the moment. I'm all for that if it introduces it to new fans. This mini-video brings to life a well-known, but rather humdrum example of Tom of Finland's leather art, showing how imaginative manipulation of AI can add something worthwhile to old classics.

 

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Indecent proposal by Club 323

I guess the fascination with trains in AI reflects many people's daily routine, commuting to work. There's no doubt that city, underground trains are rich with teasing specimens of manhood which the journey gives an opportunity to study and fantasise about, while the object is mesmerised by his phone. 

(see 'I'm on the train!')

 

This image homes in on a different aspect, the privacy of an empty, late night carriage. There's something very sexy about this encounter between a trio of very attractive men. The title seems to imply that they intend to enact a 'Brief Encounter' on the spot. 

A videoette explains all.

 

Back Home - by Club323

The redhead in the previous image seems a natural, shoe-in for a kilt (if I'm not mixing my metaphors). The presence of a fellow skirt-wearer, equally hunky and very straight-looking, suggests all sorts of naughtiness.

 

 

Jay Off Duty by Club323

There's something Royale-esque about this image. 

It's the shorts and if you like them, you'll love this artist's site

 Club 323 at DeviantArt

Shore Leave

Club 323 - He Doesn't Send Mixed Signals

 I couldn't resist this amusing, AI remix of familiar Tom of Finland iconography,

 blended with some modern attitudes.

 

View the Videoette below: 

 

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There's a focus on jolly musclemen 

AI Art by AussieGuys

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Rolls-Royce 1 by AussieGuys

 AussieGuys art is an eclectic collection mainly focussed on conventional AI Hunk-dom, but this is an interesting recent, development. Two guys embarrassingly stranded in their expensive car. I've posted a captioned version at 'X'.

 

Rolls-Royce 15 by AussieGuys

The artist has produced an astonishingly large number of variations in this Rolls-Royce series, all based around this scenario. It's sexy but difficult to decipher what's actually going on. 

See also RR17 and RR29.

 

Best Friend 2 by AussieGuys

As you might expect from an Aussie, there's plenty of beach fun imagery. I'm attracted to the shorts in this image. The yellow dangling rope is a worrying sign that AI might be secretly gay.

 

Big Fish by AussieGuys

 Beach boys don't have it all their own way, this is a marvellous study of more mature masculinity with a scary dash of phallic symbolism. Shame about the purse, though.

 

Couple 40 by AussieGuys

I think it gets a bit carried away with bulk here, but the muscle hunks parading in wet underwear is a nice idea. There's a sense of these buddies thinking of casting their own lines for a catch they've seen further down the beach (see below).

 

Couple 38 by AussieGuys

Maybe it's these two cheeky chappies that they're checking out. They've got bulk of their own to flaunt, tantalisingly disguised and yet emphasised by the patterns of their sagging pouches, which are slung oh, so low. 

 

Polycule, We Are One - 30 by AussieGuys

 This is a romantic, but very sexy image of a spontaneous kiss in the surf. The facial expressions and postures of the outer men are fascinating. Are they embarrassed? Disappointed? Jealous? Whichever is the case, they don't seem inclined to make up a second pairing with each other.

Apparently a polycule is a network of people connected in a polyamorous dynamic, so there. 

 

Polycule, We Are One - 4 by AussieGuys

 This expresses the same idea, slightly more subtly, with matching trunks substituting for linked hands as an expression of closeness between the right-hand pair - or perhaps revealing a lack of it. Did AI actually dream up that little twist? The body-hugging trunks themselves are rather less subtle and may distract you from contemplating the 'polydynamics' in depth.  

  

Couple Beach by AussieGuys

There isn't an image that can't be improved by taking the guys' pants off 'em. This one is also tender and romantic, with a hand clasp that seems to signal deeper feelings than casual friendship. Unfortunately, this idyllic, surging moment is about to be interrupted by a tsunami-like wave. That's AI for you, no sense of proportion.

 

AborgPinkLiz 5 by AussieGuys

This native Australian is certainly prepared for the big one (so to speak). He's another, pleasing example of the variety of men represented in this artist's pictures. 

 

Surfer's Pet Dolphin 9 - by AussieGuys

Check out this cheery chubbie.
Love the stuffed pouch.

 

Dreamtime 4 - by AussieGuys

The determination to represent Australian-ness justifiably includes an admiring flash back to the ancient, local cultures. Some think images like this are degrading and insulting, but we all have ancestors like this. The beauty is idealised here, but the originals had an ability to survive in an unforgiving environment that would compare favourably with many of the i-phone generation.

 

Australian Football League - by AussieGuys

The Aussies are formidable competitors in most sports, as English cricket fans know, all too well, but Australian Rules Football is a unique, fast flowing sport, that attracts gay admirers due to the skimpy shorts they all wear. This leaping pose with the corny, 'Reach For The Stars' subtext looks like it's an AI stock image, but the ultra-short shorts transform it, revealing an expanse of muscular thigh and a glimpse of the jungle-like interior for fans of up-shorting.

 

Cisboy 12 - by AussieGuys

One of Aussieguys' quirks is dressing some of his handsome models in fem-style underwear. The title, I presume, is a modernisation of 'sissy', owning the insult and, in the setting of a public beach, making it a Pride-style, defiant assertion of identity. 

That's fair enough, but my perverse temptation is to pair it with the earlier image of muscle guys in wet underpants ...(see below).

This image fails for me, slightly, because AI has simply fitted the lace fabric into the lines of conventional male attire. Adapting it to imitate the different shape produced by a female body would create a more startling contrast.

 

Couple 40 by AussieGuys
(captioned by mitchmen)

 No-one knows the secret thoughts that lurk in the hearts of even the most butch of tough, Australian, hypermasculine personas!

 

Jock 33 by AussieGuys

It may be that the muscle-heads are being sized up themselves 
by one, very excited bather in the water! He has a confident air that might make him more than a handful for them.

 

BeachBaby60 by AussieGuys

 This young man further down the beach also proudly shows his colours. He, too, has a look that suggests that he is adept at finding opportunities for all that stuff he's packing in that impressively load-bearing pouch-ette.

 

Jock 174 by AussieGuys

Just when you thought beach wear couldn't get any skimpier! 

It looks like this guy earned his athletic laurels in Starbucks. 

As you might note from the picture serial number, there are lots more of these at AussieGuys' website (link below). 

 

Couple 8 by AussieGuys

 This take on skimpiness, applying it to shorts, appeals to me. More than the semi-implied transparency, in fact. There was a fad for shorts/trunks like this a few years back, but they don't seem to turn up so often now. Maybe that's because they have too much of a tendency to turn downwards, once you start walking!

 

Big Kid 76 by AussieGuys

 

I ought to give the last word to a more conventional representation of Aussie manhood, with a slightly wild, slightly gauche personality and fierce patriotism. Never mind the ducks, mate, come and rescue me!

 

 

Like A Good Glass of Wine by AussieGuys

 

Cheers! 

 

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AussieGuys posts at Deviant Art

Seductive Art by AI-GaySole

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 Convict Kane by AI-GaySole (Video)

This guy looks like a tough cookie, but the prison guards are tackling his behaviour. They are keeping him tightly restrained with rope even when he's in his cell. He also has to wear a body harness under his prison uniform and keep it on, even during recreation breaks, as a reminder of what they will do if he misbehaves. 

I love the exaggerated pecs and nipples busting out of his overalls, and the straining zip, which looks as if it might give way at any moment.

Convict Kane 2 by AI-GaySole

Kane was very troublesome when he arrived but a few days in insolation and special suspension had a sobering effect. The periodic inspections made by Officers made him realise that no-one was untouchable in this institution. 

 

Convict Kane 3 by AI-GaySole

Kane never quite lost his cockiness, but the warders found that quite endearing. It tended to dissolve dramatically when they put him back in harness for regular 'maintenance' procedures.

 

more bondage by this artist at X 

 

 

Jake Harlan by AI-GaySole (video)
 

Jake has a pretty intimidating look too, who says real men don't wear pouches? But his dinky, denim, fashionista, cropped top gives the game away. He's really just a shameless exhibitionist, condemned to roam the subway network forever, in search of redemption (or something like that). 

 

Jake Harlan 29 by AI-GaySole

Judging by press reports you'd think subway trains are infested with touchy-feely men eager to interfere with their fellow travellers, but not a confident, hunky man, apparently. Jake's discovered that passengers have an amazing capacity to ignore his bizarre behaviour. I suppose they think that even a furtive glance might lead to an embarrassing, stripper-gram style scene. 

 

They may all look the other way, but Jake still gets a kick out of performing just for himself. He keeps going with a supply of coffee and sandwiches in his backpack, which he always keeps on his back, even when it's crowded, just to annoy the other passengers.

 

I think he's hoping that he might get himself arrested by a dodgy cop and locked up for causing a nuisance, like Kane.

 

 

Professor Kane 10 by AI-GaySole

I can't say I'm turned on by female attire as such, despite a comprehensive attempt by one optimistic individual to convert me in my younger years. I do find this get-up weirdly sexy though. I don't know if Professor Kane is related to Convict Kane (above) but they obviously take different courses in life! Of course, the Professor's name alone is enough to set wild thoughts running. The Head Teacher must be sorely tempted to impose some discipline. Can't have pecs being flashed in front of the students, can we?

 

 

Professor Kane 2 by AI-GaySole

The Professor doesn't wear much under his skirt, sometimes nothing at all, but you'll have to visit the artist's website to see them, there are a couple of seductive videoette performances there as well. 

 

I've listed some of his other characters below. You can see more images and sexy videos of them all at the artist's website (link at the foot of the post)

 

Brock 4 by AI-GaySole

Brock is another interesting character who works in a mini-mart, filling the shelves. He doesn't wear lingerie but good old, manly jeans. He fills 'em pretty well too, so much so that they have a tendency to split open in embarrassing places. Some customers complain it distracts them from their shopping, others think it turns the milk. I think I know what they're getting at.

 

more Brock at 'X' 

 

 

Adam 18 by AI-GaySole

Adam's another well-endowed character, a bit of an AI cliché really. He sweats an awful lot, so you'll often see him stripping off on his way home from work.

 

Mr Rivera 20 by AI-GaySole

Some people say Adam is unduly influenced by his boss, Mr Rivera, and that's why he sweats so much. I'd say it's the other way round. Mr Rivera likes it the other way round.

 

Moretti 3 by AI-GaySole

Moretti is happy to do it either way. He's a hooker who puts his goods in the shop window. Well, in alleyways usually. Moretti is lucky enough to have beguilingly masculine looks and a large backside which he showcases with bold, but stylish clothing. Following Moretti back to his 'workplace' after hiring him has been known to cause his clients to come prematurely. It's easy money if you know how to do it!

 

 

Ken 17 by AI-GaySole

Ken's one of a number of sportsmen at AI-GaySole who delight in stripping off to entertain the crowds at match days. His teammates usually keep their distance during the hold-ups which don't last too long usually because the ground staff don't like the grass being disturbed too much - or fed with unapproved fertiliser.

 

 

Superman 6 by AI-GaySole

Superman finds it hard and difficult to keep a lid on his inner turmoil. When he sees a huge tower, he just can't help himself.

 

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AI seems to have an infinite ability to produce variations on any image and this has led to a glut of creators who don't know when to stop and can't make choices. This artist isn't one of them. He has created a very selective offering of interesting and oddball AI characters. They have muscles and assorted good looks (naturally) and he puts them though their paces for our stimulation and entertainment. His memes are pleasingly and imaginatively handled.   

Visit the Artist's website - AI-GaySole @Deviant Art

 

Targeted - The Firefighter

 

Cybertied - Firefighter Captured

We've all admired the hunky Firefighters who have cheerfully stripped off for calendars in recent years. Rob became one of the best known after his Unit voted him as their 'Cover Guy'. 

They weren't his only admirers, of course and one, very rich one approached the Station with a donation offer they could not refuse. All he wanted was a private hour with Rob and after some intense negotiation it was agreed, but the meeting would have to take place in the Fire Station, rather than his private dungeon.

 

 Rob thought it was a joke when his buddies took him by surprise and tied him up in the comprehensive manner stipulated by the donor. They left him alone on his knees in the Station House. Rob struggling with his bonds as he waited was a most wondrous sight, captured in full by the security camera. But the crew had done a good job, the ties were inescapable.

They all returned an hour later fully intending to rag him before they set him free, but to their horror found that their buddy wasn't there. It was all captured on the camera, of course, and the police soon found the abandoned Fire Engine, but eventually had to reluctantly admit that they were baffled. 

 By then Rob was undergoing re-training, far, far way. But pretty soon, he was back in action, slipping down poles and directing his hose, containing and quenching a succession of demanding flare-ups.

The Unit regretted the loss of Rob's services, but consoled themselves that it had been a very generous donation. The security video inexplicably disappeared, but in the years that followed, it was 'found' by the Night Watch, who liked to watch it and reminisce about hunky Rob when things were quiet.  

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Firefighter Captured by Cybertied is one of his best AI videoettes, to date. The T-shirt and bondage show off the Firefighter's muscles brilliantly and secure an appealing, kneeling position.

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