Sexy Hot Beauty : A Girl’s Beautiful Curves Of Inspiration

A month ago, I opened the newsletter “Another Unshackling, Brooke’s Story” and, much to my astonishment, found nude photos of Brooke, the letter’s author. I set out to make a extra special reply with both a letter and my own drawings of Brooke.

Unfortunately, life got crazy and very busy, and only now have I had the time to finish this letter. (I haven’t even had time to do more than my first two drawings.) I was happy to see that Lawrence, Brooke’s boyfriend and inspiration, wrote last week’s newsletter, keeping Brooke’s Story fresh. Now I have Lawrence’s letter to respond to as well as Brooke’s. All the better, for as it turns out, Brooke’s Story was not quite complete.

I am an self-taught amateur pencil artist, and my subject of interest is the human figure, particularly the female nude. I have dedicated half my life to understanding why women look the way they do. I have discovered something popular culture doesn’t want women, or anyone for that matter, to ever find out.

The truth is, what lends women their feminine attributes–their wide hips, round buttocks, an ample bosom, and a smooth, soft appearance–is mostly body fat. Women naturally have more body fat than men. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. While this fact is essential to an artistic understanding of the female figure, it ought to be common knowledge. Perhaps if it were, women would no longer be ashamed of the very curves that make them women.

As an artist, one of the first things I learned was human proportions. In art, even the “ideal” figure is a far cry from fashion models. My knowledge and acceptance of female proportions has revealed those models to be mutants among women, far too tall with far too narrow hips and waists for their bodies.

The emaciated fashion model looks more like a tall, lanky teenage boy than a woman. Furthermore, artistic motivation requires challenge. If all women looked alike they would be boring to draw, which informs my belief that the differences in each woman’s physical attributes is something to celebrate, rather than to hide in shame.

This is why I so enjoy DOMAI. While almost all of your models fall within the art category of the “ideal figure,” they run the gamut of it! DOMAI has provided me a great deal of artistic reference and inspiration.

Inspiration has been of special importance to me for the last several years, because I have been suffering chronic fatigue and depression. For the first few years, I did not have the energy to get out of bed, let alone to draw; but eventually I started to get a little energy back, enough to sit up and use a computer for a little while.

DOMAI was key during that time because it kept alive the part of my mind that contemplates the female form. The terrible thing is that, for years after I had regained enough energy to sit up for a while, I didn’t draw, believing that I had lost my ability.

Only weeks ago, I had a day so terrible that I could not even write how I felt, so I drew it instead. Drawing offered me hope. I drew again the next day, and the next, and the day after that. At that point, I finally realized that my “inability” to draw was not only a lack of energy, it was depression.

I immediately began to seek a life drawing class in the Kansas City area, and since then I’ve even been offered private lessons by a professional figure artist. Suddenly, the creative juices were flowing again, and the world of art was no longer off limits to me! At that point, I again looked to DOMAI for inspiration–and there was Brooke, unencumbered, smiling, genuinely happy to be unburdened with clothing or care for it.

As soon as I saw Brooke, I knew I had to draw her. Her unrestrained joy beamed from her photographs, and I simply had to capture that joy on paper. Brooke’s facial expression, her eyes, her smile, and her utterly confident, natural posture reflect a genuine enjoyment of her surroundings and of being free from social restraint.

Brooke’s photos exude the spirit of DOMAI, moreso than any other photo set I’ve seen! That same free spirit is exactly what I want to capture with my figure art. My hope as an artist, in sending you these drawings, is that my work will inspire others the way Brooke has inspired me.