It's not like sexy men with long dark hair is a new concept. Poses are often very similar to each other, if not identical, as the body can only move in a finite amount of ways. But sometimes, things come together in a strange and weird way that is just insane.
You all remember my Michael Bayne drawing right? This one here:
Today I came across an image on DeviantArt that was just ridiculously similar in general character appearance and pose. The thing is, this person posted their image in 2008!!! (mine went up in 2011) It's obvious the whole design isn't the same,
I LOVE this image this artist's image, and in fact will be going back to his gallery to favourite a bunch more when I'm done here. This peice is well executed, suggestive, and beautiful.
That is absolutely insane! That being said, obviously the facial features are different, and Michael lacks feathers but still! The design is actually so similar that I feel the need to quote the sources here to deflect people thinking I copied it!
The model who was the pose inspiration for my work is named Kerry Degman, if you google his name you'll see lots of tasty images, including the one I used. (I don't want to point you directly to an image because I don't want to end up taking you to a website you may not want to have in your browser history.) This was actually one of the few times I didn't feel the need to modify the pose in the reference I was using.
The charcter, of course, is my Michael Bayne, who I've been drawing since I was about 14 (though they're shoddy images, no where near what I do now.)
I was so dumbfounded by this, that I actually felt the need to tell everybody about how dumbfounded I was!
Okay, so now that you know how blown away I am, go check out the artist's gallery for more awesomeness.
Sta.sh
Typically.
Amazed 
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