Tom of Finland 101: Chapter Eight Quiz

9th July 2021, 6:38 pm

 

When Tom started using models it did create one problem: He had to get actual live men to pose somehow. Slowly, shyly, and only if the circumstances were exactly right, he began to ask men whom he thought handsome and well built to pose for him. To his naive surprise, when he approached them and said, “Hi, my name is Tom of Finland. Would you pose for me?” they always said yes.


Once Tom began using photographs in the creation of his drawings the improvement was so dramatic that he seldom went back to drawing totally from imagination.

The figure on the left in Sailor’s Dream, is the first one Tom based on a photograph, which here he enhanced and incorporated.


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