Male Nude Drawings

Check out the great talent over at FortheLoveOfMan. The owner contacted me some time ago and I finally got time to post some of the drawings he sent me. He is also a fan of Harry Bush.

Small Male Torso Study

Athletic Model Guild and the Bob Mizer Foundation

Bob Mizer founded the Athletic Model Guild in 1945, operating out of his mother's house in Los Angeles, and published Physique Pictorial, which featured photographs and artwork celebrating the male physique. These have been the source materials for many artists like Harry Bush, Tom of Finland, George Quaintance and more and they continue to inspire.

The core of Bob Mizer's work, consisting of about one million photographic negatives and thousands of 16mm films and videotapes needs proper archival storage materials.

Please support the Bob Mizer Foundation with any donations via their Kickstarter project to protect and preserve this important part of history.

Read more about it and watch the video over at my friend Michael's blog Male Models Vintage Beefcake.

Bar One Manhunt

Bar One Manhunt - Auditions

Physique Pictorial

Decided to spoil myself! Got me some vintage beefcake from my friend Michael over at his great blog Male Models Vintage Beefcake. Mostly for all the great drawings by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush and others, but the little books are a great source of inspiration for artists. Order some for yourself on Michael's Ebay Store BestMusicAndBooks before I buy all of them. Any other guys in South Africa that own similar treasures from AMG?

Hunky Local Bartenders

Homoerotic Art by Jürgen Wittdorf

"Within the confines of the early 1960s government-controlled art scene of the GDR, Jürgen Wittdorf was miraculously able to publicly develop a historically unique group of homoerotic socialist woodblock prints and linocuts."

"Widely publicized and exhibited at the time, the Zyklus Für die Jugend (1960/61) works were criticized and demonized as "westernized" by the authorities, because Wittdorf sympathetically portrayed rebellious youth, in the shape of jeans-clad street kids and rockers (as later he would portray punks) instead of idealized young socialist party members. Widespread public acclaim especially from young audiences was however able to silence the criticism."

"In Jugend und Sport (1964) Wittdorf seems at first to placate his ideological critics by putting his models in more familiar socialist poses, but subverts the heroics by a surprisingly blatant (and in retrospect very witty) homoeroticism, proving either the naivety or open-mindedness of the state patrons and audiences of the time."

Source: Kunstraum Richard Sorge

Male Zodiac Figurines

These sensual MALE ZODIAC figurines were sculpted by Pia Langelund, who has created other bisque porcelain figurines for Royal Copenhagen. The powerful and elegant series of male zodiac figurines capture the characteristics of each of the astrological signs of the Zodiac.

Bathers by George Lambert

Nude Male Bathers by Ludwig Von Hofmann

Hunky Fabrics

Need a new pillow cover? Check out these hunky designs from Alexander Henry. Available from the eQuilter store.

Another Harry Bush Drawing

Beefy Mr America Covers

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Quick Drawing

Naoki Tatsuya

South African Males



Alexander and Hephaestion by Roy Tamer

Works by Jack Balas

Jack Balas is an artist working in painting, photography, writing and other mixed media. His paintings mix traditional realism with a multitude of other creative techniques. Often his work takes on the quality of a diary or a map annotated with words and images. The work overflows with references to art history, pop culture and other modern distractions. Balas focuses on every day man in a variety of emotional, political and stylistic scenarios. Recently the male form has taken center stage in his art celebrating beauty and often invoking powerful taboos.

Balas was born in the United States in 1955. He received a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University. In 1995 he was awarded a fellowship in painting from the federal government's National Endowment for the Arts.

Visit his website for more inspiration.

Art by Wes Hempel

Website: www.weshempel.com