Bathing Spock

Fan Art
Title:	Bathing Spock
Artist:	Shelley Butler
Date(s):	1994
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
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Bathing Spock is an illo by Shelley Butler.

It portrays Spock from Star Trek: TOS, and was printed in First Time #39.

It was the winner of a 1999 STIFfie Award.

Fan Comments

1994

Spock, unabashedly, gloriously physical and pensive at the same time, holding a towel, stretching a hand behind his head, looking like he's just stepped out of the shower. Both incredibly gorgeous likenesses, with the trademark Butler musculature (our boys are buffed to a shine!) and the faces, as always, are drawn with exquisite delicacy. Spock's my favorite of the two, though it's so hard to choose; in this case, I chose Spock because it's such a particularly intimate moment (those words again) for the Vulcan, and she's captured his Cupid's bow mouth to perfection. And the Kirk! I want to know what's going on below the field of vision in this picture. They're both perfect, and I have only one request to the artist: let's see full body renderings of these two poses! I mean, if you think our hearts can stand it.