Some art and a question

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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.

Comments

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I remember that Catsmeat told poor old Bertie in The Mating Season that he and Gussie were "practically twins" or something along those lines, but I got the impression that Catsmeat was just trying to get a rise out of Bertie. In the same book, Bertie said Gussie looked like Lester De Pester (http://www.barnaclepress.com/cmcvlt/Betty/betty190712.jpg), who certainly doesn't match Bertie's physical description (such as it is) at all.

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I agree Catsmeat wasn't being completely sincere there, but there's also a bit in "Episode of the Dog McIntosh" where Bertie hears that Mr Blumenfield's kid will be coming over and he remembers that the kid accused Cyril of having a fish face. He says that if the kid tells him he has a face like that, he'll clump him. Jeeves says "Perhaps the young gentleman will not notice that you have a face like a fish, sir"; Bobbie says they "can't just trust to luck...It's probably the first thing he will notice."

Bingo (while in disguise as a socialist) says Bertie has a face like a motor mascot, but I don't have a clue what that means.

Hmmm...I don't know, I can sort of see the Lester De Pester connection re: Bertie, if you think of him as a very exaggerated and homely caricature of Bertie's features.