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Hello! It's been an extra month since the last picture, but here's a new one, finally! And even finished on schedule this time too. Feels good. I hope you all like it. :)

I've put the version without cum as well in the attachments if you prefer that.

I'll be sending out reward packs for this illustration on the usual schedule, in about a week from now, on May 7.

While working on this one I noticed how tricky it can be to find a good exposure and color temperature for both indoor lighting and outdoor lighting in the same picture. In the time lapse video you'll probably notice I mess around with that a bunch. But I think it turned out alright!

I also tried to keep the outdoor background pretty loose, to maintain a higher level of detail in the foreground where I want your attention to be. I did start painting smaller details in the background at one point. It's very tempting! But I caught myself and managed to avoid it, haha. That's something I still need to practice.

As you might recall, next up I'll do something I haven't tried in a very long time. I'll be working on two illustrations in parallel in May, just to see how that goes. It could very likely be too much for me to finish in a month, but I want to at least try! It'll be interesting.

Thank you for supporting me, everyone. :)

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Ladislao

Always a pleasure to admire your work

Seraziel

Striped stockings are a godsend. Also love how well you portray the female figure pressed against things. And of course you are unmatched when it comes to painting white fluids

Robert Arctor

Powerfully erotic, and quite fascinating :) Great work!

Pixie

This is stunning. I <3 it.

Simon Delott

Breathtaking art once again.

QuarterGamer

Yee, great piece this one, loving the scene you've created, I'd probably call you out on tracing or using a 3d render if I didn't know any better, it's just that well done. Plus the two people in the scene are also nice, hue. :D

Griffin Barrows

Uff, his body! So detailed and amazing ^_^ and the sploosh goo is just... so impressively done, Calm!

Ciarán M

Oh it is always so good to see another one of your finished illustrations, you always manage to pack in so much detail, create such vibrant colours with gorgeous lighting, while portraying characters enjoying each other in wonderful, wholesome ways. Suffice to say, this painting is no exception! 😸 Starting off, I really like the background that we see outside the windows, you mention trying to strike the balance with having it be detailed but not so detailed that it distracts from the foreground. I think that you succeeded very well here with obvious definition to the forms that we see outside, the wooden decking, the stone tiling, the bushes and the trees. The overall style here is a fun, painterly, semi-realistic look that contrasts very nicely with the more defined interiors. The colours also contrast well with the lush greens and grey stonework against the warm wooden floors, walls and characters on the inside. And I really like the textures outside too, from th shine of the decking, to the dull look of the stone as well as the rough look you managed to give to the trees. The interior looks excellent too with the warm, wooden texture of the floor, a metallic shine to the window frames and little bit of roughness in the shadows on the wall to the right of the windows as well as to the left of the picture frame. The wooden counter-top beneath the picture frame also has a lovely shine to it, the fluffy mat wrapped over the sofa behind the girls butt looks so soft and comfy and I love the subtle shine to the shirt that's laying on the green cushion. There's really so much going on here in the background with colours and lighting, like I love the cast shadow that cuts across the wooden floor with the warm light running adjacent to it, as well as the warm lights tinting the metal window frames, with that darker, rough shadow running diagonally along the wall with the picture frames on it. I simply must force myself to stop talking about the background as there is just so much here! And if I don't stop, I'll never get to the characters 😹. So starting with the man, the tonal contrasts across his physique look sensational. The warm light running down his abs and front of his thigh look so striking against the shadows along his upper back and arm, as well as running down his butt and back of his thigh. And I just love the definition of his body, from the twisting muscles running through his forearm, to the excellent definition of the planes of his fingers, especially those of his lower hand with the warm light and dark shadows showing how the fingers bend. His abs and how they separate from his obliques, as well as the separation between his obliques and hips look fantastic with the hard edges, really giving those muscles a strong, blocky look that I love. And that muscle starting at the top of his butt that runs down his outer thigh towards his knee looks so good, especially with the gradient in tone throughout it and the hard edges on it's sides. The shadow side of his body looks especially good with the cool toned bounce lights that run down his back, butt and thighs, providing extra contrast with the warm lights on the front of his body. And I especially like how we see a cool bounce light wrapped around the outer edge of his butt, running adjacent to a shadow with a warm light at the centre of the shadow, further accentuating those shapes and making the area extra striking. But that's enough about him! It's the lovely, luscious lady that I want to spend time with 😉... uh, critiquing, I mean... just critiquing... 😅 I find her pose to be oh-so sensual, the fact that we see only the hints of her breasts as they press into the sofa's edge, as well as just her bum poking up, with her naughty bits out of view just makes her all the more alluring. I guess it's what we don't see that makes the scenario extra sexy. But of course, what we do see of her looks sensational! 😻😻😻😻😻 Her hair is so gorgeous and flowing, I especially enjoy how the ends of her ponytail curl, while her fringe sweeps only across one side of her face, while strands of hair curl inward over her left cheek. The colours of her hair are quite striking with the green-tinted rimlights on her ponytail that provide a contrast with the warm brown, while further accentuating and defining the strands. Her face itself is very striking too with the front planes laid in shadow, while the side is so warmly lit, even with separate shines across her forehead and cheek, providing more contrasts. Her features are so well detailed too and I love the tip of her nose and all of the little intricacies of her ear. And hot damn... that body! Something I really love is the core-shadow that runs along her left breast that continues towards the overall shadows of her bum and thigh. The bounce-light that runs parallel to the core shadow also makes her pop out even more against the shadows she casts onto the sofa, while accentuating her sensual forms even more. All of the intricate plane changes for her neck, traps and how they connect to her shoulder and chest looks excellent and I adore the hard edges and shadows that form her deltoid and it's connection to her upper arm, as well as the muscles that connect her bending elbow to her forearm. Her hands too also look great as they wrap around the edges of the sofa, I especially like her left hand with the bright lights among the shadow that define the knuckles. Her entire lower back and butt too look so appealing with the shadows wrapping around them, as well as the areas of bright light that shine across her, giving her this glistening look. And although her thigh is entirely in shadow, there's enough subtle light there to accentuate the forms, while there is something so sexy about a woman who's essentially entirely nude with only stockings 😻. I really cannot overstate how sensual she looks when pressed into the sofa, straddling it with her naughty bits and breasts teased so heavily. And something that I've always made clear that I appreciate in your work is the general sense of fun and tenderness between characters, so I like that although his fingers are wrapped around her neck, it doesn't look like he's choking her. It simply looks like he's supporting her neck, without meaning to sound judgmental, choking is something that I'm personally really not a fan of. Oh and of course, the goop is brilliantly painted as always with a great sense of volume and motion as it whips around in varying consistencies and transparencies, while also gripping and clinging to her face, body and the sofa, giving those forms further definition. Once again, excellent work, Calm! 👏👏👏👏👏 It's a pleasure to see your work once again!

calm

I'm lucky to have you and everyone else here looking at it! It keeps me motivated to make more. :)

calm

Thank you, I'm glad you think I did a good job on those!

calm

I'm happy to hear it gives you that impression, Robert! Thanks!

calm

Thank you! I actually do like the idea of creating 3D scenes and painting over them, so you might see me do that sometime too! Hybrid workflows are interesting to me. :)

Arkemyr

great work. love to see your muscular, fit men as usual!

calm

You know, I never really think much about exactly how many different little decisions I make while making an illustration like this, but you do a really good job of highlighting that, haha. I'm very glad you're enjoying the picture! And yeah, I can definitely understand why you aren't a fan of choking. It can be a little bit challenging sometimes to create what looks like comfortable domination as opposed to uncomfortable domination, especially when we only see a single frame in the situation. And different people will have different associations to what they see, some positive and some negative. I'm glad you think she looks like she's in a situation she isn't uncomfortable in. That's definitely what I was going for. :)

Anonymous

hey, love your work but just wondering why i didnt get this illustration in my inbox yet?

calm

Hey there! Do you mean the reward pack? I'm about to finish putting it together, so you'll be getting it within a couple of hours if everything goes as planned. :)

calm

Yeah, there are a few options I've used over the past few years. I sometimes open an equirectangular grid in Photoshop and go to 3D -> Spherical Panorama -> New Panorama Layer From Selected Layer(s), which gives me a grid I can rotate to find an angle I like, or to fit the angle to a sketch. You can find a grid like that here: https://magazine.artstation.com/2017/04/360-pano-painting-tutorial-jama-jurabaev/ Another option is to use the Perspective Tools v2 plugin, which can generate a grid, but the grid it generates is a bit less helpful for visualizing space in my opinion. You can find that plugin here: https://gumroad.com/l/mesl You could also use perspective drawing assistants in programs like Paintstorm Studio, Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, etc. Photoshop unfortunately doesn't have one, but you can get the standalone program called Lazy Nezumi which hooks into Photoshop and works as a perspective drawing assistant. I hope that helps you out!