Welcome to mitchmen gateway

Welcome to mitchmen.com, home of Mitchell's Gay Art.

This is my permanent gateway site.
I usually post here once a month, art and photos in praise of male beauty, strictly vanilla.
There's a link in the sidebar to a small public gallery of vanilla drawings by me (gallery last updated Feb 2019).
If you have problems with the link please read this notice.

You can find my more intense and frank work via my regular 'mitchmen' blog
(where I show my own pictures mixed with articles on other gay artists and images that excite me).

There's a 'Gallery Hub' tab at that blog which has onward links to:-
- All the official mitchmen galleries,
- The mitchmen mailing list (for the latest pictures and stories)
- The permanent mitchmen archive at Adonis Male.

I welcome comments from visitors but please avoid adult references,
I can't approve remarks which are not consistent with the vanilla format of this site
and unfortunately I can't edit your contributions!

Thank you for your interest and support.
Mitchell (Jan 2024).

Monday, 1 September 2025

At a loss for a hoss


 The moral of the story is:

If you go riding with a cowboy in the bush,
make sure your steed is securely tethered.

underwear by modus vivendi 

Thursday, 31 July 2025

In The Wild




I have a thing about patterned briefs (see label at the foot of the post).
I insist my gardener wears them when he's tending to my pants plants.
It's turned him into a bit of a poseur, but I can't complain.  

Monday, 30 June 2025

Male models


 There's a curious ethereal, dream-like quality about this image that I find very intriguing. 
It's from an underwear ad but doesn't seem to be selling the product very strongly.
 
It seems to allude to 'cruising', gay lifestyle, but the atmosphere is almost the opposite of a darkroom. The men look lost, stranded in a cold clinical space, like candidates for a lab experiment.
It's as if they've been picked up at random, strangers put together in a sterile prison.
 
 

 The one that got away. Scrambling onto a passing freight train.
He looks back, checking for signs of pursuit. 
It's a curious place where this man would pass unnoticed! 

Saturday, 31 May 2025

Merman by hongd542


 Mythical mermen are a natural subject for AI art creators. This fantasy by hongd542 shows one haunting an ancient city that has sunk into the sea. He has a magnificent physique, a beautiful swirling body line and, it would seem, a taste for adorning himself with precious artifacts salvaged from the ruins. 

I normally ponder the secrets of merman reproduction in these images, but this one gives no clues in the below stairs department. That deflected my thoughts to wondering about those upper body muscles. Perfect for luring unwary sailors onto the rocks, but how did he develop them without access to an underwater gym or even legs with which to brace himself for heavy lifts?

Actually, as is the way with AI, the origins of his lower body are betrayed by the bend in his tail at about knee height and the suggestion of a flexed foot between his tail fins. That suggests he's actually a human who has been condemned by some sorcery to roam the seas, with his legs (and everything else, I suppose) trapped inside a fish's tail, like a sheath. Is there a hint of frustration in his facial expression?

 


This powerful image by the same artist seems to play on that predicament, with the merman seeming to be torn between his old life on dry land, and life in the sea, which is now the only place in which he can survive. A demonic glow lights his eyes, reflecting his state of enchantment and, perhaps, his anger and frustration, which he is doomed to inflict on innocent matelots (if there is such a thing!) from now on.

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hongd542's art has been featured at mitchmen blog 

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

AI Art by - AI Art!

 
This splendid, relaxed male image comes from on Art shop I stumbled across on-line. As usual with AI Art, you can't tell what is fortuitous invention and what is really the product of a human mind that's been abstracted by the software. The blotchy paint effect does something for the feel of this image, which is quite mysterious and sensual in an odd sort of way. It covers a multitude of sins as well, but nevertheless I really like this depiction of masculinity that hasn't resorted to baring acres of flesh. I must admit I have a thing about shorts too and that theme also runs through the images below.
 
 
 
Talking of blotchy paint effects! The treatment here is suggestive of explosive power in the poser. It's not particularly subtle and doesn't have the moody depth of other images here but would hang on a wall most happily. The use of colour is quite cleverly balanced, it and reminds me of the work of Richard Taddei, but his humanity trumps this showiness.


Moody ought to be the name of this image! A generously applied, dripping paint effect gives the superficial impression of a muscle hunk caught in a rainstorm. However, there's an underlying sense of him being caught in a situation, be it rain or something more serious, where that lovingly-crafted physique is of no help to him. Quite a powerful effect, but rather depressing as a picture on your wall.
 
That's unless you get off on the idea of vain men being put in their place. (Moi? As if!)
 

 
This is a variation on the same theme, but there's a spark of resentment or rebellious defiance in this man's face that suggests his spirit has not been quenched just yet. It's reminiscent of the 1950's photographs of men like John Barrington who charmed likely lads into his apartment to pose for pictures - and sometimes (well, quite often, apparently) charmed them into bed as well. It looks like this one is thinking about it, conscious that some of his defences have already been stripped away.
 
 

This might have been a picture taken earlier in such a session, it's a very natural, manly pose. His thumbs are hooked in his pockets, as if he needs to give them something to do, and although he's gazing into the distance, it feels like he's looking at the artist or photographer for guidance and reassurance rather than striking an arty pose. He's crafted his physique with obvious dedication but doesn't quite know what to do with it, it seems, and the result is charmingly modest.


 
This variant is quite the opposite, self-consciously relaxed. The distant gaze here sets him apart from his audience, creating that god-like aloofness that has more to do with the on-lookers perceptions than his innate qualities. Impressive shoulders though.




There are lots of fleshier images on this site which wander into sensual waters that are not appropriate for this blog. This innocent one indulges my fascination for shorts, particularly when paired with belts. That clothing combination under pins my interest in the old Royale Studios. Compared with the preceding images, this pair, in matching white outfits, seem to have an arrogant self-awareness that is both alluring and repulsive. I know which I prefer.
(Yes I know, it's just AI messing around!)
 
The 'mind' behind this image has also linked in to the related idea of belted swimming trunks, a fashion phenomenon that had a vogue in the 1960s and still comes and goes occasionally, but usually quite briefly (so to speak!). That may be because it's too showy and incongruous for the average man, who is still desperately conservative in his dress. 
 
In a typical piece of AI confusion, the software has combined a two designs in one, skimpy briefs on the left side, and a more shorts-like leg line on the right side. Artificial, yes, but whoever called it intelligence?
 
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I don't have the web original location, but for more, explore at Etsy, 
try bart print gallery  first

Tuesday, 1 April 2025

AI Experimentation

cyberlad - anthropoplasti - 449

 This remarkable image is one of many fantasies by cyberlad that explores the possibilities of the distinctive, traditional genre of art used for medical, anatomical studies. It's not for everyone who has an interest in the male body, but has an invasive quality that is hard to ignore. 

In this example, the artist has clad the subject in jeans which immediately suggests the condition of his body is real, not an abstract visualisation for educational purposes. He's doubled down on the scientific element by enclosing him in a glass chamber. A chamber which is also occupied by an ivy-like plant, it is vigorously entwining itself around his body.

Curiously disturbing. 

cyberlad posts at DeviantArt

Friday, 28 February 2025

Just Blown In


 March winds and all that!
Looks like a typical UK beach
The model looks like he'd prefer a different sort of blowing
 
Underwear model by Modus Vivendi