This is really not my sort of material, Frodosweetstuff, paritally for its coyness, but mostly for the same reason the Bouguereau below is not, which starlit_woods told me about:
The Homer illlustration is a wonderful painting, and the youth in the image already looks enough like EW as Frodo that it doesn't need any further manipping! But I haven't the urge to do manips of Frodo as a child.
I began to make these as an act of homage to film-Frodo's classical beauty, but also as an act of swoonage for the film/book character with whom I had become enamoured. I just can't get a swoon up for little boy-Frodo, however cheek-pinchingly cute he is (judging from EW's kid roles). I don't mean this in a pederast sort of way. Looking at kid shots of EW is a pleasure, he projects so much charm and personality (although I would not have guessed from his child shots that he would grow up to be so beautiful, really!). It was EW as Frodo, a young man [hobbit] or a youth on the cusp of becoming a man, that fired me to love and inspired me to get creative.
These images would both make great manips, technically speaking, but not ones that I would enjoy swooning over.
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Date: 2006-04-18 03:23 pm (UTC)Love Weeps by Wm. A. Bourguereau
This is really not my sort of material, Frodosweetstuff, paritally for its coyness, but mostly for the same reason the Bouguereau below is not, which
Homer and his Guide by Bouguereau
The Homer illlustration is a wonderful painting, and the youth in the image already looks enough like EW as Frodo that it doesn't need any further manipping! But I haven't the urge to do manips of Frodo as a child.
I began to make these as an act of homage to film-Frodo's classical beauty, but also as an act of swoonage for the film/book character with whom I had become enamoured. I just can't get a swoon up for little boy-Frodo, however cheek-pinchingly cute he is (judging from EW's kid roles). I don't mean this in a pederast sort of way. Looking at kid shots of EW is a pleasure, he projects so much charm and personality (although I would not have guessed from his child shots that he would grow up to be so beautiful, really!). It was EW as Frodo, a young man [hobbit] or a youth on the cusp of becoming a man, that fired me to love and inspired me to get creative.
These images would both make great manips, technically speaking, but not ones that I would enjoy swooning over.