The Beauty of Michael Breyette
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Just in case some of you haven't yet filled your quota of hot naked guys for the day (well, can it ever be full?), and especially for those of you not on the f-list of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hidden_hero who introduced me to this amazing artist, I've been scanning some of the work from Michael Breyette's book 'Summer Moved On'. This man draws beautiful, toned men, yes, but he also draws beautiful art, and his use of light and shade and tone can sometimes distract me so much I almost forget to stare at the men. Almost.
This is one of the reasons I bought the book - it's a picture I first came across in 'Stripped - The Illustrated Male', a compilation of various gay artists' work. So now I have a bigger and prettier version :-) There's just so much to stare at in this - the perfection of the skin tones, the obvious detailed love and knowledge of anatomy, how muscles stretch and move, the careful shading around every dimple in the mattress. And, of course, real men, with body hair. Even if they are fabulously toned and pretty real men XD
Some of these scans came out with a grainier look than the book has, I have no idea why. But I love the passion in this, and the setting of it, how the background matches the skin tones, the light slanting from the windows and the swelling of those jeans....
I apologise for not havinghidden_hero's knowledge, patience and skill to remove the gutter lines from double page spread pictures. But this image is so sweet and lovely that I almost forget to drool over the men.
Nice, elegant bathroom this guy has. That's what I'm looking at, honestly, not the highlight catching on the six-pack there.
There's always something in particular to be liked about wet men. But the detail in all that soap dripping off his arse and thighs... how does an artist do that? As someone who's spent a fair amount of time trying and failing to paint, I'm immensely jealous.
Another one where I'd dearly love to fix the indent, but damn! A guy who looks like that, in glasses, I could eat him right now; and somehow he's reminding me of Guy Pearce in LA Confidential, which isn't exactly a bad thing either....
This really gets me, because I adore the dreamy expression on that guy's face and the way his toes curl as he hugs the pillow and waits for his lover to fuck him. It's details like those toes that make Michael Breyette's work, because you can see the fantasy, the anticipation in the dreamer's head.
And now we're heading a little more explicit, a little less suggestive and a little more direct as the hands wash down a toned, hairy body, and the cock starts to respond. For me, this is one of the most incredibly erotic images in the book, with most of the lover's presence disguised behind the shower curtain. Such a lovely choice of composition.
I think it's the fabric that kills in this piece, the detail and the shading in the shirt as it's dragged away, the suggestion of the body beneath. I've always been a sucker for the almost-revealed.....
I included this because it's so different from many of the other pieces in the book - the action, the colours, the vibrancy of the moment and the crowd. Breyette can be versatile, but I wouldn't want him to change his subject matter too much ;-)
Right about now, I can stop explaining why I bought this book, can't I?
Did I ever need to bother explaining at all?
Go, go now and buy! This isn't a case of, 'I'd like this art, but...' or, 'It's great, if only I could fix...' There is nothing to improve here. Not that my, drooling, obsessive eyes can possibly detect....
EDIT: I've shrunk some of these because LJ was cutting off some of the wider double spreads. It still is cutting a little off some, but I wouldn't like to shrink them any more.
hidden_hero who introduced me to this amazing artist, I've been scanning some of the work from Michael Breyette's book 'Summer Moved On'. This man draws beautiful, toned men, yes, but he also draws beautiful art, and his use of light and shade and tone can sometimes distract me so much I almost forget to stare at the men. Almost. This is one of the reasons I bought the book - it's a picture I first came across in 'Stripped - The Illustrated Male', a compilation of various gay artists' work. So now I have a bigger and prettier version :-) There's just so much to stare at in this - the perfection of the skin tones, the obvious detailed love and knowledge of anatomy, how muscles stretch and move, the careful shading around every dimple in the mattress. And, of course, real men, with body hair. Even if they are fabulously toned and pretty real men XD
Some of these scans came out with a grainier look than the book has, I have no idea why. But I love the passion in this, and the setting of it, how the background matches the skin tones, the light slanting from the windows and the swelling of those jeans....
I apologise for not having
hidden_hero's knowledge, patience and skill to remove the gutter lines from double page spread pictures. But this image is so sweet and lovely that I almost forget to drool over the men.Nice, elegant bathroom this guy has. That's what I'm looking at, honestly, not the highlight catching on the six-pack there.
There's always something in particular to be liked about wet men. But the detail in all that soap dripping off his arse and thighs... how does an artist do that? As someone who's spent a fair amount of time trying and failing to paint, I'm immensely jealous.
Another one where I'd dearly love to fix the indent, but damn! A guy who looks like that, in glasses, I could eat him right now; and somehow he's reminding me of Guy Pearce in LA Confidential, which isn't exactly a bad thing either....
This really gets me, because I adore the dreamy expression on that guy's face and the way his toes curl as he hugs the pillow and waits for his lover to fuck him. It's details like those toes that make Michael Breyette's work, because you can see the fantasy, the anticipation in the dreamer's head.
And now we're heading a little more explicit, a little less suggestive and a little more direct as the hands wash down a toned, hairy body, and the cock starts to respond. For me, this is one of the most incredibly erotic images in the book, with most of the lover's presence disguised behind the shower curtain. Such a lovely choice of composition.
I think it's the fabric that kills in this piece, the detail and the shading in the shirt as it's dragged away, the suggestion of the body beneath. I've always been a sucker for the almost-revealed.....
I included this because it's so different from many of the other pieces in the book - the action, the colours, the vibrancy of the moment and the crowd. Breyette can be versatile, but I wouldn't want him to change his subject matter too much ;-)
Right about now, I can stop explaining why I bought this book, can't I?
Did I ever need to bother explaining at all?
Go, go now and buy! This isn't a case of, 'I'd like this art, but...' or, 'It's great, if only I could fix...' There is nothing to improve here. Not that my, drooling, obsessive eyes can possibly detect....
EDIT: I've shrunk some of these because LJ was cutting off some of the wider double spreads. It still is cutting a little off some, but I wouldn't like to shrink them any more.
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Date: 2007-04-15 04:21 pm (UTC)I find that with all his pictures, there's some detail to note the more you look, and I love that. He obviously puts so much thought into the background and the poses, not just 'something has to be behind the gorgeous bodies'. If you go to his website, there's a link to his blog where he shows his artwork in stages as it develops, and it's interesting that he starts colouring with full detail in one area and then moves out, rather than roughing out the whole thing and adding detail later.