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.

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If you want hottie Jeeves, I got the idea that looks-wise, Richard Armitage might make a good Jeeves and I manipped a picture of him to look more Jeevesy. He's quite the roguishly handsome fellow! I could send it to you if you'd like to see (I won't post it, as there might be copyright issues involved).

Excellent points. So I guess it's sensible to picture a nicely muscled Jeeves. Yay! (Which reminds me, I was going to say my mental Jeeves's muscles are not quite as defined as the one in the drawing above. I was consciously working on making the boys more masculine in appearance, since they aren't masculine enough in many previous pictures.)

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Ooooh, yes, please! I would love to see your manippy Hot!Jeeves!

I don't see anything at all wrong with how you've drawn either of them here. Bertie strikes me as a guy who might be a little effeminate anyway, though. I've always most certainly seen Jeeves as the butch one of the pair, despite his fussiness.

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It shall be sent this evening. I might also toss in a couple of the Berties I've done, just for the hell of it. Do you have an e-mail address I can send them to? I only see a PM link.

I wouldn't say it was wrong, just a tad more ripped than I actually see him as. One of my problems in drawing men has been that for certain positions, I can't find good photo references for what I need, so I have to use myself, and I'm quite thin and bony. I try to masculinize things, but I've noticed that Jeeves in particular still often ends up looking too thin and smooth. I've been making an effort recently to familiarize myself more with men's musculature so I won't have to use myself so much.

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You can send stuff to inisglas at seanet dot com, thanks!