A Waste of Time

I like that I did this picture, because it serves a really useful function for me.  Whenever life seems hopeless, or the World seems like a dark and scary place, or somebody talks about something a Republican Presidential Candidate says as though it actually made sense, in those dark times I can always just look at this picture and remind myself, “The World’s not so bad- It can’t be when there’s a guy who looks like that who posed for hours in that position so you could draw him like that from life.”

I wrote some comics about this guy a while back, and they appeared in my book.  We actually only went out on a few dates and things ended amicably, so I still talked to him from time to time, and eventually I brought up the fact that it occurred to me that out of the guys in the book I talk about dating, he’s the only one I hadn’t done a portrait drawing of.  So, we hung out a few months ago and I did a drawing of him that I’ve already posted on this website.  The drawing turned out well and we both liked it, so I started to talk to him about doing another one.  When we were talking about what pose to do, I said that I didn’t want to start getting repetitive with pictures of guys just sitting or lying in bed, and I thought it would be fun to do something with his wrists tied, or slightly kinky in some way.

Turns out he didn’t object to that at all, and the boots and gloves were actually his suggestion.