After decades of being a photographer, I discovered that I had skills and talents to create digital illustrations using a computer. My university degree is in journalism. That academic preparation enabled me formally to study photography of people and news events.

That was how I developed an eye for composition and for telling a story within the frame, so to speak. My aptitude and attitudes as a digital illustrator apparently had to wait for technology to enable me to express in images what I, as a trained photographer who happens to be a gay man, can see in my mind’s eye.

I cannot photograph an angel in an alley getting a blow job from a mortal man because angels do not exist in the physical world. In your mind and in my mind, however, it is possible to envision an angel getting his cock sucked. Using digital imaging tools, I am able to create such a scene and I can share this impossible view here with certain realism.

Who Approves or Disapproves

I accept that some people consider the illustration work that I and others do using computers to be anything but artistic. Such criticism typically is rooted in the fact that this kind of illustrating is not manually drawn or painted with brushes on canvas.

So, you may concern yourself with “what is art” versus “what is not art” if you wish. But, I don’t concern myself with what others think. I just keep on creating what I create without dwelling on who approves or disapproves of me.

More to the point, I see myself for what I really am: a gay adult male illustrator and storyteller who chooses to take on controversial and dangerous subjects like sexually aroused angels and hung cowboys. I fully realize that my choice of subject matter means that you will either like what I do or not. I doubt that you will have a neutral response to my work. It will not surprise you to learn that I do not try to please the largest possible audience with my work. I just do what I do and make it available for those who want to experience what I create.