Cuddle
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| Fan Art | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cuddle |
| Artist: | Shelley Butler |
| Date(s): | art appears to be dated 2005, the zine it was printed in is 2016 |
| First Published: | |
| Medium: | |
| Genre/Style: | |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| External Links: | at AO3 |
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Cuddle is an illo by Shelley Butler.
It was printed in Devotion.
Artist's Comments
This piece encompasses my feeling about K/S. They are infinitely vulnerable with each other and infinitely in love. I wish I knew where the original is.No scans, some internet, but unusable for source material. K/S artists would sometimes take pictures off the TV for source material! Me --- I searched the gay porn magazines. These were only helpful a little because I didn't need lots of erect penises. I needed only loving embraces, of which there weren't many in gay porn magazines. And then there was the matter of getting any reproductions for prints. Artists had to take their originals to printer shops and be faced with explaining what the artworks were about.
I used graphite pencil for most of my work and reproducing the subtle gray tones was often very difficult. [1]
Fan Comments
They just look so happy and sleepy and content. <3 [2]
It's lovely. Thank you for sharing. [3]
Love seeing all the work you've posted - your art work is so amazing with how you're able to capture their likenesses so well!! I love this piece particularly - so tender and loving! <3 <3[4]
So peaceful, I love it! [5]
Fangirlsqueeeeaaaaaaalllll 😆😆😆😆❤❤❤❤ [6]
Oh my HEART...😍💚💚💚💚💚💚💚🖖🏾[7]
It was a different time! I was able to see and buy a few old skool zines back in the 80s, and was delighted and amazed by them. (I guess I'm a Fandom Old now -- I'm back in ST fandom this summer after not engaging with it for the last, oh, 20+ years ... heh. It's potent for me as ever.) This drawing is fantastic. Great likenesses, great technique. Hi.[9]
This artwork is just beautiful! They are so loving and open and vulnerable with one another. Perfect likeness! A true Masterpiece! <3 [10]
2023
Such a beautiful tender moment between them. I can't find the words. [11]
Magnificent talent. This is very well done, and very sweet. ahh i could look at this for hours...💕 [12]
Their tenderness, openness to each other, and love in your drawings are incredible to watch. You express it so clearly. I'm just looking and realizing I can look at them forever. [13]
2024
Absolutely my favorite of all of them... I can just never get enough Spirk cuddling. Just gorgeous! It's so lifelike that I'm dying to just reach out and caress a pointed ear, LOL. . . . You have an incredible talent. [14]
References
- ^ from AO3 (March 2022)
- ^ 1lostone, AO3 (2022)
- ^ Waterfall, AO3 (2022)
- ^ williamspockspeare, AO3 (2022)
- ^ sb_essebi, AO3 (2022)
- ^ Arodynamic, AO3 (2022)
- ^ 2RaRaRa, AO3 (2022)
- ^ CoolCucumber37, AO3 (2022)
- ^ Herself nyc, AO3 (2022)
- ^ eveningstar10, AO3 (2022)
- ^ Dahliaxat68, AO3 (2022)
- ^ Pegster, AO3 (2022)
- ^ Tarriga, AO3 (2022)
- ^ lilybaggins, AO3 (2022)