After graduating art school, I'd been so focused on work I'd hardly had time to make art, but there was an art project that had kept nagging me. It would haunt me while I was hard at work while images danced through my head.
It was a nude art project, and so I would need some reference photos to work from.
For a long time I figured I'd just use shots from porn, so I had a collection I'd been slowly collecting as I saw stuff that worked.
That day at work it hit me, I could get exactly the shots I wanted if I took them myself! And bonus, I'd get to work with real, nude models!
So as soon as I got home, I moved my couch and my coffee table, pinned up a sheet to the wall and let it drape down to the floor, and voila! I had a makeshift studio! It wasn't perfect, but fortunately being an amateur photographer, I had tripods and flashes I could use.
Besides, you have to start somewhere! Now all I needed was models.
I went on online and posted an ad looking for nude models of any age or gender for an art project. It wasn't long before I had a few submissions, and as I filtered through them a few stood out to me, so I replied. Immediately a guy named Jake responded and after a bit of back and forth we scheduled time that weekend for the shoot. In his pictures he was tall with short cropped hair, tattoos, and pierced ears.
I'd always considered myself straight, but looking at his pictures, imagining him being naked in my apartment got something stirring and I felt a tingling downstairs that was normally reserved for women. I shrugged it off as nerves and went about my day.
That Saturday I woke up excited for the day. He was coming over at 11 am because that's when the best light came into my apartment. After getting ready for my day, I grabbed the tripod, got the makeshift studio ready and set up the rest of the camera equipment.
When I heard my apartment buzzer, I was relieved he hadn't bailed and was actually here. I buzzed him in. A few moments later there was a knock on the door. When I opened it up, there he was. He was tall, about 6' 3", short light brown hair with a side part, earrings, a short cropped stubble beard, and a disarming smile. It was clear he worked out. He wasn't huge, but his shoulders were perfectly shaped, his shirt tight on his chest.
I shook his hand, introduced myself and invited him in.
"Done this sort of thing before?" I asked.
"Not really. Closest thing I've ever done was nude art modeling at a college art class. It was fun, and I've been wanting to explore more things like it. Nice setup btw" he replied.
"Thanks, I think it will work alright!"
We sat down on my couch and I showed him sketches of my art idea and the kinds of shots I'm hoping to get. He said "Sounds good, I like the idea. This should be fun" and flashed a smile my way. Our knees were touching. I said "Yeah, I think so!" and we locked eyes for a moment. He held my gaze and I felt a bit of a flutter in my stomach. "Just nerves" I told myself.
"Awesome, well if you're ready to get started, I put a robe in the bedroom, so you can get changed in there. I'll just finish getting things setup out here. Come out when you're ready" I told him.
"Great, be right back" he said.
I stood up and realized the blood had flowed downstairs a bit and my pants felt slightly tighter. I'm straight, why am I feeling turned on by photographing a guy? Maybe this is just anticipation of having another person naked in my apartment. ...yeah, that's got to be what it is.
A few moments later he came out with the robe barely tied around his waist. He stood in front of my makeshift studio and said "You ready?"
"Yup, ready when you are" I replied.
He opened up his robe and tossed it aside. He was even better looking without his clothes on. His broad shoulders and well-defined chest were covered in tattoos and led to a set of perfect abs. His "V" led to what I could only describe as a beautiful cock. I'd never considered another man's cock beautiful, but his was the perfect size and width. Large without being intimidating, and he was uncut with just the tip of his head poking out.
He was clearly a slight bit turned on by getting naked in a stranger's place, and I couldn't blame him. I was getting turned on too, but determined to treat this professionally.
I had to stifle a grunt of a compliment and said "Ok, let's get some establishing shots. I just want relaxed frontal, side profiles and back."
My camera clicked as he slowly turned and I got the shots I needed. Then I said "Everything good? You feeling comfortable?"
He replied "Yeah, all good, though it might be a bit more fair if I wasn't the only one naked" with a devilish grin.
I smiled and wondered to myself whether I was really going to get naked with another guy in my own apartment. I've been naked with guys in a locker room, but this felt more intimate. Heck, if this means I get better shots, I might as well do it for the art, right?
"That sounds fair, good artists go above and beyond for the art right?" I responded as I started to take off my shirt to his widening grin. As I disrobed the rest of the way, I could see his hungry eyes watching me. It didn't feel like a come on, more just playful, so why not.
I could feel my half hard cock bounce a bit as a pulled the band of my boxer briefs past it. This was turning me on more than I had admitted, but of course us guys get random hard ons for no reason, so maybe that's what this is I told myself.
I looked up to seeing Jake smiling and admiring me. His cock had the same idea apparently and was a bit more swelled than before.
"Alright, that's better, let's get the next shots" I said.
Now it was time to get more artistic. I described each shot I had in mind as he posed and positioned his beautiful body. His muscles flexed as he moved, and I was enjoying admiring his muscles between the camera shuttering. These are going to be great for the art.
Then I said "Listen, I have some ideas for some more, um, risque shots if you're up for it. It'll mean you being at, well, full attention if you know what I mean."
"I have an idea what you mean, and no problem. This is fun, don't mind pushing the envelope" he said with a grin.
He grabbed at his cock and started moving the foreskin over the tip of his penis to get himself hard. I'd never seen a man touch himself in person before, and I was surprised by my own cock's reaction.
"Looks like I won't be the only one who's at attention" he commented.
"Ha, yeah, I guess." I wondered if I sounded as nervous as I sounded. This was turning me on more than I had realized, and I felt a rising curiosity.