Showering with Spock
| Fan Art | |
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| Title: | Showering with Spock |
| Artist: | Shelley Butler |
| Date(s): | 2004 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| External Links: | at AO3 |
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Showering with Spock is an illo by Shelley Butler.
It was printed in the KiScon con zine in 2017, but the art is dated 2004.
A similar illustration by Butler is Baptism.
Artist's Comments
Drawing the water cascading over them was very challenging. It couldn't look like stripes! I drew each and every drop of water separately. But my favorite part of this drawing is where Spock's left hand rests.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, 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.
However, now, if I want a good reproduction, since I don't have the originals anymore, I have to send just a digital copy to a professional printer. They don't seem to mind the subject matter at all these days! [1]
Fan Comments
2022
ASHFDAGHGLFSJKL Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your work! [2]
This is gorgeous and absolutely incredible! Thank you so, so much for sharing!! [3]
This is GORGEOUS. I'm honestly in awe. Thank you so much for creating and sharing! [4]
Every time i think i have a new ultimate fave of your work, i open a new one!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️[5]
So detailed! So evocative! Gorgeous![6]
You are a really good artist! Their wet hair looks so real! The shows water is perfect! And their bodies are also fantastic! [7]
This is the picture of true love! Perfect! Love all your artwork. <3 <3
[8]
2023
This is just beautiful! Powerful, erotic, and sweet. [9]
This is positively exquisite!! The way the water moves over them-and the way they're holding each other-sensual and sexual and just gorgeous! [10]
2024
I love reading the little notes before each piece :-)). This one made me chuckle at how times in the western world have changed that printing this subject matter is no longer a big deal. It is very much a taboo still in other parts of the world- that much I can tell you. Fascinating that humans are simultaneously existing in different eras of progress on the same planet. [11]