Shirtraiser by Lionus (2003)

"... and when he saw that he had attracted your eye, he slowly, every so slowly, pulled the waist of his T-shirt upward over his stomach while at the same time he slowly unzipped his jeans."

Like a lot of my drawings this one comes from a pose I saw somewhere. Where it was I do not remember. An advertisement? A movie poster? A dream. Real life?

"I remember the stare that he fixed me with. A smiling stare that mocked my earlier pretended disinterest at the party. A smiling self-confident stare that dared me to match his boldness and continue watching him as each slow second ticked by and he grew more naked in front of me. Would I chicken out and look away, proving myself to be the coward? If I did, then I instinctively knew that it would never happen again. Yet with each passing second as more of his body was slowly exposed to me, I felt as though it was I who was being undressed and made naked. All the coverings that I had hidden myself with over the years were dropping away softly one by one to the floor. And his eyes laughed at the knowledge that we both silently understood this."

Pencil sketch.