When I saw these images at fuskator I almost skipped by them. You see, while my tastes in both men and women have changed over time there's been a fairly consistent view of the ratio of man vs woman. The man should be significantly bigger. That's it. A smaller man can be with a smaller woman, but if the woman is tall and particularly busty and/or curvy, then it needs to be a bigger man with her. And I'm not necessarily talking about cock size. In certain positions, I just want to see that the man is bigger than the girl he's fucking (or getting blow by). While I love a woman with thick curvy thighs, I want a guy with big muscular thighs to compare her against. While I love a woman with big breasts, I want a guy with an expansive chest to compare her to. While I really get off on a woman with big dick sucking lips, I adore them more when their stretched almost to their limit around a big thick cock.
So with that in mind, you can see why I almost took a quick peek and moved on. Yeah, the guy rates pretty high on the 'thick cock' Caitlyn rating, but there's no lips ever wrapped around it (and you KNOW how that disappoints me!) and its surrounded by his rail thin body. And on top of that, he's practically hairless. I don't exactly want to have a jungle on the guys legs, arms, chest, and back, but it's another good contrasting point.... his hairy body vs her smooth hairless body.
But that's almost how I though about it... contrasting point... and I this story idea hit me. They DON'T contrast in the way I want. While she's far more along on the Caitlyn feminine scale than he is on the Caitlyn masculine scale, I could easy point out some less than ideal points about her. Yeah, she has average to above average breasts (not PORN average, but real average), but I could write how they're smallish. While she has very good curves around her ass, she has a thicker waist. Don't get me wrong, I love a woman with this shape, but you could see this body coming from the starting point of a androgynous man more so than your classic hourglass shape and large breasts. And the guy fit the bill... take a thin woman without a large waist to hip ratio, remove her breasts, give her a little body hair... and you have this guy.
So, I like how the story turned out. I could have gone on much longer into their relationship, but I really wanted this one to be a cap and not an obscura so I kept it shorter. At first, fitting the story over the image was problematic. This is the original photo:
I had envisioned the text going over her arms and extending toward her and the title extending over his body. Kind of like this:
But without going to deep into why, this just didn't work for me. While I loved the image of his hips hitting her ass, I figured I could fix it by moving the text box to the left and letting you focus on her 'smaller' chest and his flat small chest. And of course if I'm letting you focus on that, I need to let his chest shine, so the title got smaller. Design wise, I'm a LOT happier how the published version works, but I hate covering up the image in that way as it's not what I as a viewer want to focus on. And yes, that's why I used that part of the image as the header graphic!
Anywho, I like it. I think the design serves the story even if it doesn't serve the image itself. I hope you like it too!
**02/22/2020 edit: As my sis Karen pointed out in the comment below, I typoed the word contrasts in the title graphic, the actual cap, and the title of this post. This morning I fixed all of those things. I figured I should add something here otherwise you'd look at the comments and wonder what was going on. I DIDN'T fix the work versions so at least you can see how the error looked and giggle at my mistakes. Don't worry... I giggle at them too! Toodles!
I like it, Caitlyn! Very nicely done, nice image, and great story that emphasizes contrasts. Interesting thought process too that went into the composition.
ReplyDeleteJust one question: did you intentionally spell "Contrasts" as "Contasts" in the image title?
Thanks Karen! I'd love to say the mistake was done on purpose, that I wanted the 'contrast' of a typo to go against the layout, or that it had some double entendre meaning... but nope, it was just a mistake. I knew I wanted the title to have a lot of contrasting colors and text styles so I just made it in photoshop... without spell checking it! And now that you've pointed out that... I see the title for the post is wrong too.
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I'll hopefully fix both this weekend.
Hee hee, well it's no hurry to fix, as it is really quite lovely all the same; yet undoubtedly the perfectionist in you will out. ^_^ Have a fruitful weekend!
DeleteWhelp, they're fixed. Thanks for pointing it out Karen! I'd just be so damned embarrassed if I came back a year or so later and saw the mistake then!
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