"Gameboy"

image is 6½" x 10¼" on paper 9" x 12"
Erotic Gay Male Dad Son Interest ORIGINAL Drawing "Gameboy" by Michael KIRWAN

 

"This is the kind of illustration I really enjoy. There's so much casual information available to cobble together a personality profile of the GAMEBOY. The superhero posters featuring muscular types in colorful skin-tight costumes, his non-masculine hair arrangement, the PlayStation (the appreciation of fantasy and role-playing), and the "Keep Out" sign on the door that's left wide open. It all contributes to who the character is. As a complete and unnecessary aside, the fly on Dad's boxers is agape. This thing is an invitation to create a whole series of alternate scenarios for the dialogue and relationship between these two."

 

— Michael Kirwan

 

Published in PlayGuy magazine - November, 1999

 

It is part of the "Beginner's Luck" comic series.  Each published comic consisted of a brief story and three to four illustrations (one or two of which usually contained more than just bulging packages).   Michael created, wrote and illustrated this series that ran for over two years.

You can read the comic here.

 

 

 
 

Usually, my Dad doesn't bug me because I'm 18, get straight A's, and mind my own business, but this one day, he interrupts my game-playing to say that he'd seen this thing on TV about college boards favoring students who're joiners. He wants me to get into some activity and I agree to try because he's an okay guy and I know it's too late to really get on a team.

 

 

From the artist:

   The drawings are done in Letraset Tria Markers. They are essentially watercolors done with nibs rather than brushes, so I can finesse the fine details. A brown permanent ink describes all the basic features of the pencil sketch, the graphite is removed and usually two to three layers of color are applied. Then I use a variety of other different inks to define everything. I often use opaque ink to highlight areas and/or an overliner (an artist's version of Wite-Out in pale tints). There are also occasions where I employ metallic markers to draw attention to certain details. It generally takes me between 10 and 20 hours to finish each piece depending on the number of figures, intricacy of background and how many layers of color I need to produce the intended affect. On average, from conception and initial roughing out to where I deem it done, I spend about three days on each drawing.

   I don't use models or photographs. Real people don't interest me. I want my characters to be the universal stand-ins for any guy who looks at them. I want men to be able to see themselves represented rather than any specific pretty boy being displayed for their pleasure. I rarely have my guys look outside of the picture at the viewer. Mine is a more voyeuristic than confrontational approach to character development.