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The mystery is solved
Feb. 28th, 2021 01:05 pmI am a dumbass.
I've tried to get specific pose references for a while. Porn references are easy, but guys just engaging in coupley, casual intimacy is hard. The pictures I find online are usually overly posed, when I can even find them.
A few times I've tried to buy pose refs, just try to solve my problems by throwing money at them. This always goes wrong. Some of you may have heard me complain about the first time this happened. It was my birthday, and I decided to buy myself a present. I was going to hire art models for an hour and take some pictures. There are a lot of art models in this town who pose for the various art classes and even the drop-in life drawing studio. What I got in response to my posting for clothed - I specified clothed because so many pose nude for life drawing - was an inbox was suddenly full of dicks. How confident middle aged white men are of their bodies cannot be overstated. And one of the emails had photos from a fetish photoshoot that were close ups of ( a Maplethorpe recreation ). (<-NSFW under cut) The pictures were not an attachment, they'd been put into the body of the email. He wanted me to know how extreme he'd go. Thanks ... I didn't need to know that!
I did sort through the dick-splosion and found some people who seemed competent and could follow instructions. I hired them aaaaand they flaked on me.
A few years ago, I tried again. I paid actual money for a photoshoot with people who model for drawing references. What I received has baffled me, until yesterday when I finally realized what happened.
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I've tried to get specific pose references for a while. Porn references are easy, but guys just engaging in coupley, casual intimacy is hard. The pictures I find online are usually overly posed, when I can even find them.
A few times I've tried to buy pose refs, just try to solve my problems by throwing money at them. This always goes wrong. Some of you may have heard me complain about the first time this happened. It was my birthday, and I decided to buy myself a present. I was going to hire art models for an hour and take some pictures. There are a lot of art models in this town who pose for the various art classes and even the drop-in life drawing studio. What I got in response to my posting for clothed - I specified clothed because so many pose nude for life drawing - was an inbox was suddenly full of dicks. How confident middle aged white men are of their bodies cannot be overstated. And one of the emails had photos from a fetish photoshoot that were close ups of ( a Maplethorpe recreation ). (<-NSFW under cut) The pictures were not an attachment, they'd been put into the body of the email. He wanted me to know how extreme he'd go. Thanks ... I didn't need to know that!
I did sort through the dick-splosion and found some people who seemed competent and could follow instructions. I hired them aaaaand they flaked on me.
A few years ago, I tried again. I paid actual money for a photoshoot with people who model for drawing references. What I received has baffled me, until yesterday when I finally realized what happened.
( Read more... )
