Medium: Graphite Pencil on Bristol

Year: 2022

As in my previous piece of a similar nature, Harnessed, this drawing exemplifies the longstanding leather fetish within a certain subset of gay male society. More than any other style of apparel, leather apparel represents the apex of masculinity. Take an already muscular man and clad him in leather and suddenly he becomes the “alpha“ dog. Now, put him on top of a leather-and-steel 150-horsepower motorcycle, and his testosterone is literally off the charts!