Andrews, a renowned Artist based in the centre of New York, lays down one night, bottle of liquor in hand contemplating his own troubled existence.
He remembers how jumbled and passionless his artwork was before he met Adam, his muse who he asks to pose for his paintings.
Adam Vane has a dark past, of hustling, forbidden love and jealous clients, but he finds in David someone different he wants to get to know, Though David does not really feel he truly understands or knows Adam.
David remembers one night when he called on Adam for that first time, and he just had a run in with some nasty clients who looked like they would beat him up.
He sees how vulnerable he is, and how careless he is of his own existence living from day to day as a male hustler in a dangerous world.
Once he meets him and talks with him he gets him to strip naked, and pose for him in his studio.
Adam has seen his previous work before and wonders why he wants all the preparation for this new painting, when he thinks it is going to be just another abstract.
After the careful way he applies sensual lipstick, chains around his wrists, and a pair of fluffy white wings to complete the look, David tells him it is going to be a portrait painting.
Adam feels he is just like his other clients, but when he investigates more about David's past, they are
very much alike in many ways.
David did not get to stardom by his own means, and rather used his own body just as Adam does.
He is more surprised at him only wanting to paint him, not using his body as a hustler would do.
As they discuss his art career, and painting in general, Adam starts to get to know more about David, while he appreciates how honest a critic Adam is about his work, and finds out David does not really like his own creations, but people will pay a lot for it as he is well known around affluent art circles.
Forming the sketches for the preliminary piece, he sees how it forms well on paper, but once he applies paint to canvas, he realises he cannot really paint Adam as he wants to.
He desires to look into his soul and see it in the painting, Frustrated, he throws down the brush, and upturns all the equipment he has been using, angry and unhappy at his work.
All David needs is to be able to see some life inside the beautiful male he paints, and he finds it so impossible.
He so wants to give in to his desires, to take solace in giving Adam a piece of his heart, but does he
This is a powerfully orchestrated tale of a painter and his muse and him finding more about him than he ever thought possible.
The characters are well developed, and Adam is exceptionally beautiful and bears an angelic quality that fits the wings he wears in the painting.
The eyes have a great angularity about them and the shading on the bodies is subtle and gives them a graceful look.
David as a character goes through the troubles every artist has, Difficulty with the muse, doubts on his own work and what everyone else thinks of him and the quality of his art.
This first volume shows the agony and the ecstasy of an Artist finding the newfound passion in his art through his handsome, wanton muse.
A story that has intensity, is graceful and turbulent, witty, and gives the reader an awareness of the art world as a whole.
Wow!!! It's okay. I think there are better characters in other DanyampDany books, Explicit book, but there is a small plot here, I probably won't read it again, The soulsearching artist David hires a jaded hustler named Adam to pose for a painting for him, David finds that this portrait is finally conveying the passion in his heart, and the beautiful model is stirring passion of another kind.
When David acts on his impulses, Adam abandons him before he's done with the painting, The artist is so devastated he ends up in the hospital on the brink of death, Weird, abrupt ending Okay Sigh, Back to more suffering artist angst, David is an artist who becomes fascinated by prostitute Adam, He hires him but to pose for a painting, This goes on for a bit until they finally sleep together and David just can't finish the painting, something is missing, and when Adam's job leaps up and slaps him in the face they have a fight where the painting is destroyed.
He revamps it and hooks up with a rich guy he knows hired Adam for two months and surprise, he invites Adam to join them in a whole BDSM thing.
David stops it and the guy is so mad he tries to run him over him and Adam takes revenge.
There is no HEA here, Seems David's friends just delight in telling what a horrible person Adam is/was and he then draws him fantasizing about his love.
Ugh. I didn't care for this at all, With friends like that who needs enemies Although their drawing is of a style that works for me.
I rather enjoyed this story, And while the art is quality, the printing, . . isn't. It's like someone scanned the whole book from jpegs online, So stuff gets blurry no, not THAT way on some pages,
It's nice that the characters are actually wellmatched they're both selfobsessed aholes and they actually kinda switch seme/uke rolls throughout the book.
Their conflict is realistic rather than just 'oh I'm scared!' or 'I heard a rumor that made me break up with you' crap.
Plenty of naughty scenes, some BDSM and the usual happy ending, kindle edition.
I love their artwork style, And even if the story is a little shaky, I get all smoopy and softhearted with their romantic happy endings.
DANYDANY Daniela Orrù and Daniela Serri are an Italian comic creators studio, active since, Their books are published in Italy, United States and Germany, They also work as freelance illustrators and manga teachers, Facebook.