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Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Julius re-imagined - The Sheep Men

 I couldn't resist these pictures from Julius' story "Devil's Canyon".
Great men and incredibly sexy, only the words have been changed!
The Sheepmen 1
The Sheepmen 2

The Sheepmen 3

The Sheepmen 4

The Sheepmen 5

The Sheepmen 6
All these pictures come from the Devil's Canyon Story (Part 1) by Julius.
I've put them together as an invented tale, but only the last three are a sequence in the original.


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These pictures are a perfect illustration of why I try to champion the art of Julius by separating it from his under-age and sometimes disturbing story lines. 'Julius man' is a pretty much unique creation, a classic, mature male stereotype that deserves to be enjoyed without guilt. In this particular group, the inappropriate element is confined to the square caption boxes that characterise his work. I didn't have to remove or modify any characters. The narrative inside those boxes actually bears hardly any relationship to the pictures themselves. Removing them leaves 5 terrific, raunchy, man-on-man images.

(I've described the other alterations I've made to these pictures near the foot of this post,
plus a little 'Spot the Difference' quiz if you're bored!)

My captions are partly there to fill the visual void and satisfy my own creative impulses but hopefully they add a less contentious context to his predominantly 'fixed pose' imagery which otherwise might reduce to simple, easily-overlooked beefcake. If anyone wants me to post the stripped-down, un-captioned versions, I will. Just post a comment below, but I won't post the unamended originals.

This group of pictures highlights another marvellous facet of his work, his ability to provide his men with marvellously evocative clothing, like the principal Cowboy of image #1 whose gun-belt artfully slung across his groin seems incredibly erotic to me. I can just imagine the leather creaking as he shifts position! The token clothing of Stetson and bandanna adorning an otherwise bare torso is a classic erotic device but  it only works if the accessories look right on the naked body. The kit he draws may not be authentic, but nevertheless it connects uncannily well with the idealised Cowboys in our imaginations, which I suppose are rooted in childhood. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose enjoys seeing those TV Western characters of yore filled out into mature, muscular heroes.

The other notable items of clothing in this set are of course the sheepskin chaps in the last 3 images. I wouldn't claim that Julius has drawn them particularly well but once you grasp what they are, they sustain a remarkably erotic presence in the frames that follow, too earthy for some possibly but undeniably powerful.

Bondage is not commonplace in Julius' work but Image #2 is one of his more committed excursions into the genre, although it's barely fetish in flavour. The tantalising peripheral reference in image #4 is more typical of his approach. In the original it that leads to an S&M conclusion that is sadly too brutal to include here (see alterations paragraph below for further explanation).

As a separate point of interest, the side-kicks in the background of these images, especially the cigar smoker in #5, bear a remarkable facial resemblance to some of Tagame's characters and that brings out a wider similarity. Both have an interest in hairy, muscular, mature men of course (and younger acolytes!) but there's also more general similarity in technical style and sheer attention to detail (in clothing at least) which I've never noticed before.

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My alterations to the original images

I have removed all the original caption boxes from them to eliminate 'non-adult' references
and substituted my own speech-bubbles and narrative.
 Apart from this, Images 1,2,4,5 are just as Julius drew them.

In Image 6 I changed the original bare ass into a more succulent form and added rope to tie the legs. I also turned the Sheepman's 'stick' round so it looks more like it's being held by his fist. More importantly I removed the original references to branding, that's too strong a subject for this blog, but it's pretty obvious how I've edited it out.

See below for Image 3

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Spot the Difference Quiz

The Sheepmen 2
The Sheepmen 3
Image 3 is obviously a stripped down version of Image 2, with two men removed and different speech bubbles, but there are 4 more distinct areas where I changed more subtle details,
see if you can 'spot the differences! Answers at foot of the post



This is the 6th 'Julius Re-imagined' post 
You can track down all the earlier ones by following chained back-links,
 starting with the Sheriff and his Deputy

You might also like to read my A-Z article on Julius





Spot the difference answers:-
1. Captive's eyes opened. 2. 'Quiver lines' and a cum-drip added to dick. 3. Left wrist and forearm narrowed to a more normal size and shape. 4 More stubble on his chin and upper lip.

Saturday, 18 April 2020

Mitchell's Gay Art for April - The Apprentice Mechanic


The Number 1 Rule for a Mechanic is:
"Always Use The Right Tool For The Job"

The Old Hand liked his apprentices to be nice young men who were willing to learn.
But when he saw Martin he thought he was far too pretty to want to get his hands dirty.
Martin knew he was good-looking, but hated people who assumed that was all there was to him.
So when the wise-cracks got too much, he decided to drop the nice guy act
and corrected his mentor using the most appropriate tool for an over-active mouth.

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Mechanics in their overalls have been something of an male icon for me.

It's a down to earth, bloke-ish trade requiring a degree of strength and willingness to get down and dirty
(as illustrated in my recent post on Jase Dean). If they fit well, the all-in-one overalls invite speculation about what is worn underneath (if anything) and they produce interesting rear views as the men bend to their tasks. The oily environment is interesting and some car parts have intriguing shapes from a fetish point of view. The job also shares some of the erotic associations of plumbing.

I have drawn a number of pictures featuring mechanics over the years but I think this is first one I have published, apart from the secret leather fetishist  in the 'Path of Pain' story (ref PP29, M331) whose collection of leather gear is found is found in his locker by his garage workmates.

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This image is included in my 'Humour' collection,
which I have just reinstated in the new mitchmen club archive at Adonis Male
(you have to join purely as an age confirmation mechanism but it's free)
You can also view the 'Path of Pain' story and pictures there
 

For more 'mitchpix' here, click on the label below, or visit my Gallery Hub

Thursday, 16 April 2020

First Catch Your Rogue - 22 The Lotus Eater


When you've caught him, detain him as best you can, he's likely to resist! 


While he's still struggling, check out any possibilities that present themselves.


When he's calmer, you can experiment with the restraint arrangements.

 
 
It could be quite entertaining if you're lucky

 Tell him about improving his life with yoga, zen and contemplation.
He'll probably react with apathy of course.


Don't worry, just tell him he must contemplate his misdeeds.
While viewing the problem from the best angles.


  Then when you're happy, tie him up tight.

Very tight.
(in the Lotus position, naturally)

After that you can probably do with a double G&T!
After all, you can always call the Police tomorrow.

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Images of Oskar, courtesy of Bound Guys

Monday, 13 April 2020

The Art of Stefan - 3

Stefan - Chrysler Mission
Stefan's experiments with morphing Muscle Men (see Part 1), and 'Joey' (see Part 2) don't really prepare you for this extraordinary art which explores the design and futuristic thinking of the 1930's. Not just in the obvious references to Art Deco styling but the cinematic art of the time like 'Metropolis' and 'Things To Come', which seem to espouse contradictory visions relating to science and technology but described intensely technological futures at a time when the power of electronics was unknown.

Stefan - Trooper Tom
 Into this he pitches nearly-naked soldiers (depicted à la Joey) who scale skyscrapers and iconic landmarks in defiance of the futuristic, buzzy, airship-like craft who threaten freedom. It's an elegant vehicle for drawing big, muscular men in intensely erotic poses. The dangerous missions they undertake reinforce their naked vulnerability and by implication their heroism.

Stefan - Vintage Monster
 In this case it's a Godzilla-like monster that threatens modernity,
 but as always a single Super-hero is all it takes to save the city,
with only the help of a puny mega-super-blaster.

Stefan - Bunker
Not entirely surprisingly the imagery also plunders the debris of 1930's totalitarianism as well,
with these grim, forbidding  monoliths and brutalist architecture
These allusions neatly epitomise the enemies of freedom and artistic beauty
that threaten this particular brave new world. 

The forward looking hopes and fears of the 30's later evolved into ideas of a future 'cleansed' of 'bad technology' like atomic bombs and gas warfare, based instead on relatively primitive technology.
It spawned numerous sci-fi novels which idealised low technology or saw it as an inevitable consequence of mankind's inability to channel science into purely beneficial channels.

The heroes nakedness in Stefan's images seems to chime with these ideas.

These ideas were the fore-runners of what we call Steam Punk nowadays and Stefan is still mining this seam at Deviant Art today (link below), but sadly he has given up lacing it with erotic heroes.

Stefan - Hall Of Fame
 Tom the Trooper above is obviously derived from Joey and from Stefan's interest in skimpily dressed body builders. He brings those threads together in this Art Deco influenced poster design that visualises Superheroes stripped to their satin G-strings and competing for audience approval like needy beefcake.

Stefan - High Voltage
Electro Nick has a prouder demeanour.
It isn't just the architecture and weaponry that's futuristic and given Stefan's sexy enhancements of body-builders posing gear it's not surprising that he visualises some pretty startling uniforms for his Superheroes. Like Nick's skin-tight crop-top (somewhat in the style of the 'Gladiators' TV show), plunging skimpy G-strings  in shiny sheer fabric (which sadly were not a feature of that program)
- plus Marigold gloves for when the going gets dirty.

Stefan - Skin-tight Squadron
Stefan visualises law enforcement Officers going similarly equipped and it's delicious to imagine our local Cops having to change into these uniforms down at the Police Station at the start of each shift. The prospect of being confronted by one doesn't bear thinking about, although these characters seem slightly less than heroically endowed. Which perhaps is only to be expected in clothes like that.
I can imagine some good-natured comparisons of 'fit' before setting out on patrol.

Stefan - Ticket
That encounter with a member of the public is imagined in futuristic terms here. The face of the offender tells us that the intimidating aura of the traffic cop is undiminished by his provocative kit. Arguably the reverse, this ones a pretty muscular specimen and is showing quite a lot down below.
The beckoning finger bodes ill.

Of course, we haven't seen what the driver/pilot's got yet!

I can't say if the 'speed' limit is a deliberate joke,
light years are a measure of distance of course, not speed.
There's similar confusion in the next image.
Stefan - Join The Navy
This picture also draws on Art Deco design and (I suspect) those photos of sweethearts reunited at the end of WW2 for it's inspiration. Flipping it into a gay context looks light-hearted, but given the military attitudes to gays at that time it's subversive too in an inoffensive way. 

The classic, striking imagery of the ship (which isn't military!) steals the show somewhat.
as it was originally designed to do of course!

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To finish, a selection of Stefan's photo manips 
which don't really belong alongside his bodybuilder morphs.

Stefan - Dutch Treat
 
 As far as I can tell there's no 'message' in this picture, it's a collection of beautiful things,
not least the arched torso of a man removing his top, which is why I chose to use it.
There's a smidgeon of fetish in the beads that loop around his body,
a suggestion of the Harem perhaps and the servitude that implies.
Mainly it's just a nice picture, don't ask me what the Dutch is!

Stefan - Saint Sebastian
I have a feeling that Stefan has borrowed this Saint's figure from somewhere else 
but it's still a stunning physique, no wonder the archers missed their mark!
Notice that one arrow has pierced the pectoral muscle and re-emerged again,
it's as though it's been inserted by hand.

There's no doubting Stefan's own hand in the skimpy loin cloth 
which only just covers the male organ and appears to be draped over it at the top.

The background of (tidily) ruined city is a pleasant enough cliche,
the ethereal stub of arch just behind Sebastian might reference the celestial city.

Stefan - Baths
There's a much more 'down to earth' flavour in this attractive image as two muscular Gladiators watch another man bathe. Logically this would be another Gladiator rather than a slave or more senior member of the establishment, but it's a rather elaborate bath for that class. I don't think Stefan is a slave to such matters and you can make your own interpretation. The nudity of the watchers suggests a lascivious mood, so they won't have missed that the bather is sporting an erection. In fact their legs are entwined as though rubbing against each other. Methinks hi-jinks are afoot.

Stefan's multi-faceted work was pioneering in it's way. His images are mildly erotic by modern standards, but the muscle morphs falling out of their briefs (shown in Part 1) were outrageous in their day. His sense of style pictures makes his pictures attractive to view and there is usually an element in them that is thought- or fantasy-provoking. His occasional fetish by-ways are fun.


Stefan continues to work on design-rich, fantasy images,
but does not have any erotic content in his current work.
see Stefan at Deviant Art

Read Stefan's story from Part 1 (Muscle Art), Part 2 (Joey)

Friday, 10 April 2020

The Art of MadDoctor aka BlueApricot


I discovered this artist only recently (see foot of post),  
but was impressed by his 'clean' style and interesting 'models'.

He's found a particularly attractive and real-looking (bleached?) blond for this image
 and it looks like he's being offered up as a sacrifice or plaything for a tentacled creature,
apparently in a dungeon or cellar, although his restraint is implied, not actually shown.

The captive's nicely tended hair and white underwear suggests he's been unexpectedly plucked from civilisation for this frightening assignment, but although he looks discomforted by the mouth invasion, there are some signs of enthusiasm germinating inside his Calvins. 


This creature stands back to entertain/torment it's fit-looking victim rather than encircling him with it's tentacles, which makes this story quite an unusual offering in the genre. 

It's something of a tradition in tentacle circles for artists to set up a victim, 'freeze' him and then let the creature have it's way with him, creating a series of near-identical frames to illustrate the process. It's a mystery to me why they don't publish them as .gifs. I usually select the frame I find most interesting as representative of such sets but I thought this fully-naked variant warranted inclusion alongside the underwear-clad one. You can find more from these series via the links at the end of this article


Shades of Zamok's gym here and that little connection lifts this image into S&M territory.
Another nicely modeled captive (apart from his haircut perhaps) with a suitably worried look.
That's probably enough to fuel most imaginations.


Dicks on sticks seem a bit Heath-Robinson and dangerous to me, but strangely the motorised version, lacking any obvious human control element, seems safer and for a bound man it's inherent unstoppability is much more telling as a domination technique.

I like the basic simplicity of this imagery, but the addition of the simplest of bare rooms as a background makes a surprising difference, introducing depth and a suitably sinister, isolating atmosphere.


That sense of  remorseless processing is invested in a far more powerful robot here. The tight (yet seemingly soft) bondage of both arms and doubled-back legs instills utter helplessness into the captive who is lifted high into the air with a single, simple, body clamp to receive penetration. 

It's a striking image which puts the captive and his plight at the forefront and does not really need the dildo for it's impact. There might easily be something more threatening in the room, behind us, just out of our sight - but not the captive's. 


This prisoner is less restricted in movement, but even more dwarfed by his captivity device.
It's a nice 'dangling' image in any context and even though the underwear is very simply rendered,
I for one appreciate him being allowed to keep it on. For now anyway.


This artist's penchant for innovation in tentacle lore continues with a highly unusual species which appear to be boned and jointed with equally refined tactile capabilities. 
Like the first example they are disinclined to encircle their prey (and possibly are incapable of it)
but his gritted teeth suggests he's still having a pretty unpleasant, invasive experience.
Their 'detachment' would make him feel more like a specimen than a living being.
He dangles helplessly above them while they reach up to attack him.


After his tormentors have had their fill of him, he hangs exhausted and seemingly bruised. 
Notice that he lost his hold on one of the hand grips now.
That weakening continues in the next image as his strength ebbs away.


This is one of the best of these images conveying great sense of isolation and helplessness.
That's reinforced by the victim's nudity and the empty void in which he is supended.
He's lost his grip completely now and with it the last semblance of any control. 

By resisting the temptation to spread his limbs wider,
the artist has created some nice body and buttock shaping
lengthening the body and accentuating the sense of him dangling in space.
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This image is constructed from photographs, but it has a similar simplicity to the renders above.
I have no idea what is being done to this man but the high-tech cock-sleeve is very erotic and it's ethereal, kryptonite-green 'spark' looks suitably daunting. The fact that he has to be strapped down for the treatment and has a look of awe on his face is explanation enough. The slightly raised far leg suggests he has the freedom to squirm a little for us, but I think I'd have opted for 'losing' it, so he looked more fully restrained.

I think this artist might produce a memorable 'Milking Factory' if he turned his hand to it.

I don't have a proper website for this artist.
There was a Blue Apricot site at tumblr but most of the artwork seems to have been removed.
There is still some interesting medical themed stuff there
I guess he's a casualty of their recent fit of corporate decency which has also hit Yahoo! Groups.

I got these examples from a post by Olaf at GMBA dated April 1st 2020 or thereabouts 
it had more in the same vein.
(latest site link in sidebar if this one doesn't work)

Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Cowboy in Captivity - Can you identify him?

This group of pictures shows a hunky cowboy
who's been tied up and plug-gagged,
but do you know who he is?

1
There's lots to like in this picture, the leather plug gag for a start, it is so emphatic!
The captive's stripped top shows a nice amount of body hair and definition
 and tight jeans on the right man are always a delight,
There are some very nice thigh lines here with sexy restraining ropework.

2
The arrival of the overseer prompts some spooky touching
with a less than enthusiastic response.

3
 The captive seems to have fallen in love with his jailor already,
maybe that's got something to do with the whip.
It might make his next duty quite a lot easier!

4
It looks like a last minute appeal is being heard here.
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I have always liked these pictures which have been in my archives for a number of years
 (the oldest has a date of 2005 on it). 
My periodic efforts to find more of the set have only turned up the same examples,
if there was a studio logo, it's been removed, so image searches go round in circles.
I really wanted to find out who the hunky captive was......
 

He bears a superficial resemblance to Morgan Black
(pictured above, courtesy of Bound Jocks)
However I think the 2005 date's too early for him
and the tattoos visible in pictures 3 and 4 don't match his.



I've also wondered if the captive is chunky model, 'Lyle' (above) 
He was doing shoots for Bound Guys around 2005
 and his face in profile is quite similar to pics 1 and 2.

He's baby-smooth hairless in this sample, but has obviously shaved off his body hair.
The cowboy above looks to have darker head hair, but his beard colour is more ambiguous.
Unfortunately 'Lyle' doesn't have that distinctive tattoo on his right pec either.

Can any of my knowledgeable readers with long memories shed light on this mystery?

If so contact me via the comments facility or my profile address 
 on the 'Contact Me' Tab (top of page)

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More pictures of Lyle, he's a bit of a favourite of mine:



This is another decent facial profile for comparison
I can't find any trace of 'Lyle' on search engines,
It's quite likely that he has another professional name.



 Lyle has also done a cowboy with a nice fit in jeans!


The total body shave on an adult man always looks a bit weird
but I appreciate a big man with a fleshy body.
Self-shavers find it's sensual and gives sexy sense of exposure.
Others might find it humiliating and humbling
 which makes it quite potent symbol of surrender or subjugation.


Lyle is a big chap and this pose brings that out nicely.
It's all about 'bums on seats' - as the saying goes.


A superbly submissive pose made all the more telling
because of the minimal (and purely leather) restraint.

Visit  Bound Guys for more of Lyle