Some art and a question

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

erynn999 was hoping for some naked Bertie & Jeeves, so here they are. *cue burlesque music*





I did a gradient on the background, and didn't notice the stripy effect till it was too late to fix. Grrrr...


Have some golfing Bertie. I did this when I was trying out my different inks.



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I've been keeping an eye out online for photos of men who look as close as possible to my mental image of Bertie, so that I could point to one and say "There, that's what I see him looking like in real life". I've collected many pictures of men who look similar to him in one way or another, but it wasn't till yesterday that I found a near perfect match. I did a bit of manipping, adding a suit & hair (the man was bald)...and it turned out he bore an unsettling resemblance to one of my cousins, who is not someone I want to be reminded of in porny situations). All this is to say that my mental image of Bertie is currently undergoing a slight shift, for that reason among others. It seems my mental real-life Bertie just doesn't look as close as I thought to my drawn Bertie. He'll probably be undergoing some subtle alterations in my art now.

So, this whole thing got me wondering: what does your mental Bertie look like? Is your image influenced by fic? The tv show? For me, the consistent features are a lean face, prominent nose, slightly receding chin, large blue eyes, sunny smile, hair anywhere from golden blond to sandy brown, nice looking but not in a head-turning way. The details keep shifting, though, which is very frustrating.

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[coffee-n-retcon.livejournal.com]

Very wonderful pictures (as always!) Are you planning on colouring the golfing Bertie?

As to mental image, as I saw the television series first, it would seem that Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie will always be my mental image. In fact, as I'm currently still working my way through the books if any description does not exactly fit Stephen or Hugh it causes be a bit of a pause.

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

Thanks! No, I won't be coloring that one. The brown ink would be too difficult to work with on the computer.

The same thing happened to me a lot back when I still saw the characters as Hugh and Stephen. I think that was one of the things that made me shift my mental image away from them.